Liz Carlyle - 05 - Present Danger by Stella Rimington

Author:Stella Rimington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, England, Memoir, Espionage
ISBN: 9781847249944
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2008-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

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Through the cloth bag over his head Dave couldn’t see a thing. But he knew where he was, and that scared him.

During the drive from Milraud’s shop, as he lay in the boot of the car, with his hands tied, he had concentrated hard on the sounds of the vehicle on the road. The journey took about an hour by his reckoning, first on fast roads, then for about twenty minutes on smaller ones, where the car stopped and started at junctions or traffic lights. Then they’d turned onto a rougher surface – some sort of track.

They could have been anywhere in the countryside of Northern Ireland. But then, just before the car stopped and he was bundled out, he heard a sound that he recognised – a noise he’d heard before when he was with Liz Carlyle. It was the squeak and bang of an electronic gate, the gate on the National Trust estate.

So he must be in Piggott’s house in County Down – the house of the man who, as Brown Fox had told him, wanted to kill an MI5 officer. Until then Dave had thought he was either the victim of a kidnapping, or of a mistake. Now he realised he could be about to die.

He’d been lifted out of the boot of the car, put on his two feet and led into a house, bumping his shoulder against what felt like a door frame. Then he’d been walked down a flight of stairs and deposited unceremoniously on a hard chair. He’d been sitting there for a minute or two, not sure who was around him, trying to get his bearings and cope with the fear that was growing with each second he waited.

Suddenly, rough hands removed the bag from his head. He looked up into the dark face of the man who had walked into Milraud’s shop and pulled a gun on him, the same man he had seen here, outside this house, when he and Liz had walked on the headland. Piggott’s foreign-looking henchman.

Dave blinked in the sudden light and looked around the room, taking in the comfortable furnishings, the large desk, the leatherbound books in the bookcases and, incongruously, the camp bed in the corner. This must be Piggott’s study, but why the bed?

Dave cursed himself for having gone to see Milraud without any back-up. Not just once, but twice. How could he have been so stupid, acting like a complete amateur? He should have listened to Judith and waited for Liz to get back. He had always known that danger was part of his job, and he liked to think that he conducted himself professionally, and without fear. No, that wasn’t right – only a fool never felt fear. But he had learned to ignore the fear, and never to let it get in the way of doing his job. So it seemed a bitter irony that he had fallen into a trap he’d set for other people, as a result of his own foolishness.

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