Quiller Meridian (q-1) by ADAM HALL

Author:ADAM HALL [HALL, ADAM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: det_espionage

The wind cut between the buildings and blew flotsam across the snow, bits of paper and a milk carton and a plastic bag. I left Roach's Skoda on some waste ground half a block away from the building where the safe-house was, and approached it slowly, making a circle. The early afternoon sky pressed down on the city, leaving the pale orb of the sun sinking towards the west as if through dark water.

Ferris had come with me to the door of the shed, and it had taken both of us to wrench it open on the frozen runners. 'As soon as you've made contact with Rusakov, I'll get his sister out of Novosibirsk.' It was the last thing he'd said to me.

The wind brought the river smell from the east, foul water and coal-smoke, tar and diesel gas. The Ob wasn't far from this part of the city, three or four miles; earlier I'd heard an ice-breaker working, its engine roaring as the bows thrust and drew back and thrust again.

I moved in closer, completing the circle. Traffic was thin, most of it trucks; no one was walking in the streets: all I'd seen on my way back were a drunken militiaman throwing up in a doorway and a pack of stray dogs lurching from one garbage bin to the next, ravenous and out of luck — it was winter and times were lean.

The peep was standing in a doorway; he'd seen me from a distance and hadn't moved out of shadow, but now he lit a cigarette and in a moment flicked it away, the glowing tip tracing an arc through the lowering light before it hit the snow and went out. I kept walking and crossed the street, stopping when I reached the doorway. I've got surveillance on the place, of course, Ferris had told me. The man took a few steps to meet me.

'Everything all right?' I asked him.

'No.' he said. 'The woman's been arrested.'

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