Pashazade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Author:Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780553901290
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2005-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

They were waiting for him in the loading bay. Which he could have guessed, had he bothered to think about it.

They were fast, efficient and professional. But then, that was their job. ZeeZee didn’t get in even one blow, one kick . . . He was too busy fighting the length of wire that had been flipped over his shoulders from behind and now held his arms helpless at his sides.

“Fuckwit.”

Until a punch caught him in the stomach, ZeeZee had assumed the person holding the wire was Wild Boy. But Wild Boy was working the gloves. Stepping out of the shadows in best street-punk fashion, his leather collar turned up against the night wind, his hair elegantly dishevelled. Both fists wrapped in neoprene gloves that were weighted along the knuckles with lead shot.

“Wrong place, wrong time . . .” Wild Boy took ZeeZee’s face between thumb and finger and squeezed, gouging the pressure points. “You know what you did? Wrong, wrong, wrong.” The first two punches caught ZeeZee in the stomach, the third slid between the English boy’s rib cage and hip, causing a blood-red poppy of pain to flare inside ZeeZee’s head and then wilt slowly, from the petals inwards. Only the wire kept him on his feet.

“Bastard.”

“Aren’t I?” Wild Boy drew back his fist and grinned.

“Not the face,” snapped the man holding ZeeZee upright. Fear was behind the sudden anger in his voice. “You know what she said. Not the face.”

“Shame,” complained Wild Boy, stepping up to ZeeZee to knee him through a breaking scream into . . .

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