One Shot: A Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Author:Lee Child
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Police Procedural, Mystery & Detective, Fiction - Espionage, American Mystery & Suspense Fiction, Fiction, Thrillers, Crime, Thriller
ISBN: 9780440423010
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

REACHER WAS FALLING ASLEEP ON THE BED IN ROOM 310 AT THE Marriott Suites. He was on his back, like a dead man. He and Hutton had talked so long in the coffee shop that she had almost been late for her appointment. She had checked her watch at five to four and had thrust her key card at him and asked him to dump her bag in her room. Then she had run straight out to the street. He guessed he was supposed to leave her card at the desk afterwards. But he didn't. He didn't have anywhere he needed to be. Not right then. So he just parked the bag and stayed inside.

He wasn't crazy about room 310, all things considered. It was on the third floor, which made the window a difficult escape route. Room eight at the motor court had been better. Much better. Ground floor, a tangled old neighbourhood, it gave a guy a sporting chance. Open the window, step out, look for an alley, or a door, or another window. That was good. This was bad. He was three floors up. A long climb. And he wasn't even sure if the Marriott's windows opened at all. Maybe they didn't. Maybe the main office lawyers had been worried about liability. Maybe they had foreseen a steady deluge of infants raining down on the parking lot blacktop. Or maybe it was a question of economies of scale. Maybe the cost of hinges and handles outweighed a little extra on the air conditioning bill. Whatever, it wasn't a great room to be in.

Not by any measure. Not for the long term. But it was OK for the short term.

So he closed his eyes and drifted away. Sleep when you can, because you never know when you're going to sleep again. That was the old army rule.

Emerson's plan was pretty straightforward. He put Donna Bianca in room seven.

Told the two patrolmen to stash their car three streets away and walk back and wait in room nine. He put a car two streets behind the motor court, and another four blocks north, where the auto dealers were, and another two blocks south. He told the clerk to stay awake and watch through the window and call Bianca in room seven as soon as he saw the guy he knew as Heffner walking in.

Eileen Hutton got back to the Marriott at four thirty. There was no key card waiting for her at the desk. No message. So she went up in the elevator and followed the arrows to room 310 and knocked on the door. There was a short pause and then the door opened and Reacher let her in. 'How's my room?' she asked.

'The bed's comfortable,' he said.

'I'm supposed to call Emerson if I see you,' she said.

'Are you going to?'

'No.'

'Perjury and harbouring a fugitive,' he said. 'All in one day.'

She dug in her purse and came out with Emerson's card. `You're their only suspect. He gave me three separate phone numbers.

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