Operator Down: A Pike Logan Thriller by Brad Taylor

Author:Brad Taylor [Taylor, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Military, Suspense, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781101984826
Google: rA2jDgAAQBAJ
Amazon: B06ZYFQYYK
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2018-01-08T05:00:00+00:00

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Shoshana wound her way down Long Street, the stop-and-go traffic causing her to consider abandoning a plan for a drive-by of the hotel first. The street was packed with cars fighting the partygoers, all rowdy and some drunk, the bars and balconies full of patrons shouting and laughing. In between the revelers, like sharks swimming among an unwitting school of fish, she spotted several seedy characters. Furtive, feral teenagers advertising their purpose like a neon sign to Shoshana. Pickpockets. Or worse.

She saw the hotel one block up, then an alley to the left. She took it, driving right up against a trash bin, close enough to the wall of the alley that the passenger door wouldn’t open.

She sat for a minute, mentally tallying where she was in relation to the hotel. She figured she had about a hundred meters. She checked her Taskforce phone, first confirming the beacon was still in place, then flipping to the picture Brett had sent, memorizing it.

She left her purse, not wanting the aggravation of protecting it, but took a small strip of leather with two wooden toggles on each end, and a folding blade. She shoved the purse under the driver’s seat and exited, running into a teenager in the dim light, high on something. He smiled at her and held out his hand, asking for money. She said, “You want to make a night’s wages?”

He nodded dumbly. She said, “Watch this car for thirty minutes. When I return, I’ll pay you. Don’t let anyone mess with it.”

He nodded like a puppy, saying, “Thirty minutes?”

“Maybe sooner.”

She walked away, entering the flow of people on the street. She stayed on the south side of the street, passing by the Long Street Hotel, assessing it for atmospherics. The bottom floor was a bar, which was par for the course on Long Street, the patrons spilling out onto the pavement, which would make her job easier. The noise alone would camouflage her intentions.

She was out for information on Aaron, and she would get that currency any way she could. In the end, the man in the room owned his own fate. She wouldn’t kill him, unless she found him complicit. If he had anything to do with Aaron’s disappearance, he would suffer the consequences. All that remained was how painful it would be.

She went fifty meters past the hotel, then jogged across the street. She began walking the other way and reached the side entrance to the hotel, a stairwell leading to the second floor, away from the crowds of the bars.

She pulled out her phone, checking the Taskforce beacon. She knew the hotel had only twelve rooms, all on the second floor, which would eliminate any three-dimensional problems finding the correct room. She saw the target was in the back, away from Long Street. She turned into the stairwell and saw a Caucasian man at the top of the landing. Talking to her target.

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