Panic Room by Robert Goddard

Author:Robert Goddard [Goddard, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780593076361
Publisher: Transworld
Published: 2018-03-21T16:00:00+00:00

Don had filled the rest of his day with mindless but essential chores. He tried not to wonder when – or even if – Blake would return to the flat. She was not his responsibility, nor was he hers. She could do as she pleased and probably would. And he would have no grounds for complaint.

Evening set in and there was still no sign of Blake. Exasperated with his own anxiety about her, Don left a Post-it note stuck to the front door and adjourned to his local for a calming pint or three.

An hour or so later, Blake arrived to interrupt Don’s aimless football chat with another bar-propper. She was not alone.

Gareth Lawler was a surprise package, dull dog though he seemed to Don. He had some kind of proposal to make which Blake had already agreed to. But she wanted Don on board as well. The details, however, needed to be discussed in the privacy of his flat. Gareth looked around the bar twitchily, as if it was a nest of spies. Don polished off his pint and they headed back to the flat.

More surprises followed: Blake’s account of her visit to Harkness’s house; his suggestion that Ingrid Denner would be willing to buy her off; Blake’s encounter with Gareth at the Dorchester; Gareth’s claim to have seen Jane Glasson at Paddington station. There was a lot to take in.

What seemed clear, as Don felt forced to admit, was that Jane really was alive and somehow mixed up with Harkness Pharmaceuticals. The question was what they could or should do about it. All the other questions Don had – notably whether more had transpired from Blake’s meeting with Harkness than she was willing to admit in Gareth’s presence – were going to have to wait.

Gareth looked to Don like a man who was ever so slightly out of his depth – and the strain of standing on tiptoe to keep his head above water was beginning to get to him. He asked to use the bathroom before unveiling his plan.

‘You know friend Gareth is bottling up a lot of stress, don’t you?’ Don whispered while he was absent. ‘Reminds me of someone I used to work with. Got a lot of good sales. But it took too much out of him.’

‘How did that end?’

‘Tilbury Marshes. He was washed up there after abandoning his car on the QE2 Bridge at Dartford and jumping off.’

‘I’m like so glad you told me that. Gareth’s our big chance and you know it.’

‘Or we’re his.’

‘Same difference.’

‘We’ll see about that.’

‘Don’t fuck this up, Don. Please.’

‘All right, all right. I won’t.’

Gareth was notably calmer when he returned from the bathroom. He spoke more slowly and blinked less. Don harboured the suspicion he had taken something while he was away.

Gareth opened up his bag and took out a small black tile about a centimetre square which he laid on the coffee-table. ‘This,’ he announced, ‘is what they call a sapper. It’s magnetic. All you have to do is attach it to Ingrid Denner’s laptop.

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