Money Run by Jack Heath

Author:Jack Heath
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

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Wright stared up into the sky as the car flew across the street, twenty-five storeys above him. It actually flew, like a matchbox car someone had hurled across a room. It spun and tumbled and barrelled, silhouetted against the evening sky, and for a split second, he actually thought it would make it; that it would land right-side up on the roof of the building opposite.

The crowd down below were staring up with him. No one screaming, no one running. It was like their voices had dried up, like the flying car was a pocket watch swung in front of their eyes to hypnotize them. There was no time to feel anything more than astonishment. The camera operators behind the roadblock barely had time to swing their lenses up and capture the moment.

The car didn’t make it to the opposite roof. It crashed through one of the giant windows of the building two floors from the top and disappeared from view. It hit the glass so fast that the pane was shoved inward, and not a single shard fell down to the street.

After a few seconds of dazed silence, a wall of people ran towards the roadblocks. Most of them were running backwards, stumbling over each other and themselves, still watching the sky like there might be more to see. Like fireworks might explode on the roof, all part of the show.

Wright squinted. Actually, there was something up there. On top of the HBS building there was a silhouette of a man, staring across the street at the hole in the glass the car had made. Then he turned away and stepped out of sight.

Wright was getting increasingly frustrated. He hadn’t told the news crew this, but after calling in the homicide, he’d tried to go into HBS to examine the office with the broken window and question the remaining employees. And he hadn’t been allowed in. A big white van had appeared in front of HBS, and a gloved hand had pressed against his chest as he approached the door.

“Detective Wright,” he began, waving the badge, before looking at the woman who’d stopped him. She was dressed in a white hazard suit, complete with a hood, gas mask and visor.

“I’m sorry, sir, I can’t let you go in there,” she said.

Wright stared at her. He kept his gaze even. “There’s been a homicide, and everyone in that building is under suspicion. I don’t know who you are, but—”

“Danni Braid, Terrorism Risk Assessment,” she obliged. “And I can’t let you go in there. We’ve had a report of a biological weapon being deployed inside the HBS building, and we have been authorized to stop anyone entering the building.”

“My team needs to question those people,” Wright insisted.

The woman shrugged. “With respect, sir, they’re not going anywhere. No one is allowed to leave the building either. And because you and your team are already inside the safety perimeter…”

Wright turned and saw that a roadblock had gone up, with city cops on the other side holding the crowds back.

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