Lockdown by Peter Jay Black

Author:Peter Jay Black [Jay Black, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408851487
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-07-09T09:33:26+00:00

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Ten minutes later, Jack, Charlie, Slink, Wren and Lux met Drake and the SUV at the pre-arranged spot.

A screech of tyres made Jack glance towards the studio. A silver Mercedes erupted from a side road.

Jack spun back to the SUV. ‘Let’s go!’ he shouted.

Everyone jumped in and Drake pulled away from the kerb.

The Mercedes accelerated after them in hot pursuit.

Drake shot across a main road and turned sharply down another side street. At the end, he took a left, then an immediate right, all the time with his foot hard to the floor, accelerating.

Jack glanced through the rear windscreen – the silver Mercedes was still following.

The SUV lurched as Drake turned left again.

The Mercedes pulled out of the side street, veered across the main road and swerved just in time to avoid an oncoming bus.

Ahead, cars queued at a set of traffic lights.

‘Hold on.’ Drake yanked the steering wheel hard over.

The SUV spun sideways, squeezed between two cars and bumped on to the kerb, taking out a metal bin and a lamp post.

‘There goes the insurance excess.’ Drake rammed his foot hard on the pedal, cutting across a coffee shop forecourt and a plaza. He leant on the horn and pedestrians jumped out of the way, diving in all directions.

The Mercedes tried the same manoeuvre, but side-swiped an oncoming car.

For a moment, Jack thought this would end the chase, but somehow the silver car kept coming – it too drove up on to the kerb and across the plaza after them.

Drake followed a wide pavement in front of the shops. More startled pedestrians leapt out of their path. One woman coming out of a clothes store, her arms laden with shopping bags, screamed and fell backwards through the entrance.

Slink laughed.

Drake zigzagged left and right, weaving between pedestrians. When he nearly hit an old man in a wheelchair, he said, ‘I think it’s time to get off here.’ He squeezed between two trees and managed to get the car back on to the correct side of the road.

Jack glanced through the rear window. By some miracle, the Mercedes was still on their tail.

Drake shook his head. ‘What’s on that laptop that they want so badly?’

Jack tensed. ‘No idea.’

They shot across an intersection.

Wheels screeched and horns sounded.

Suddenly, there was a huge smashing sound.

The Mercedes had driven straight into the side of a pickup truck, slamming it into a van.

Two more cars smashed into the van, and Jack winced.

People started climbing out of their vehicles and waving their fists at the occupants of the silver car.

Jack looked forward again.

Drake reduced the car to a normal speed. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘that was fun.’

Wren leant forward between the seats with a look of awe and said to Drake, ‘Will you adopt me?’

Jack let out a slow breath. Now they could get back to New York and . . . what? he thought. Go home? They’d heard nothing from Obi, which meant there was still no sign of Hector.

Wren laughed.

Jack turned in his seat to see Slink pulling out two of the inflatable people from under his hoodie.

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