Rat Runners by Oisín McGann

Author:Oisín McGann
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497665729
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
Published: 2014-02-20T17:12:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

FOLLOWING

TANKER HAD SENT an encrypted piece of video to Scope’s phone, with a message. As well as cracking online security for various dodgy purposes, one of Tanker’s jobs was to download all the video files recorded by the miniature cameras carried by Move-Easy’s people. Part of that task involved editing Coda out of any of these files. It was one of the conditions under which Coda worked for Easy—he was never to be recorded on film. Whenever he was caught on any of Easy’s cameras, those images were to be deleted. It was a deal that Easy honored. Even someone like Move-Easy was wary of crossing Coda.

Tanker relished this part of the job, and Scope would often slag him about the man-crush he seemed to have on the enigmatic assassin. But she couldn’t help a certain morbid fascination with the pieces of footage he showed her from time to time—the momentary glimpses the cameras picked up of the murderer at work. Tanker had just sent her one of those clips. It was a big risk to take; Scope winced at the thought of Easy or Coda finding out about her friend’s indiscretion.

The piece of video had obviously been cut from a longer recording. On it, she could see three figures in balaclavas. The tiny camera was carried in a piercing on the face of a fourth villain. They were in the last throes of a raid, in what looked like a back- street implant clinic. In the gloomy swinging light cast by their torches, she could make out the features of the operating theater. She spotted two bodies lying still on the floor, as well as a woman tied up in the operating chair, her wide eyes watching the proceedings in terror.

A stack of boxes and packages stood next to a bundle of cash, all of these spoils waiting to be scooped into the last of three bulky black sports bags. An implant clinic … Scope was reminded of the job Punkin and Bunny had brought to Move-Easy. Sure enough, one of the figures lifted his mask to wipe sweat off his face, revealing Punkin’s face long enough for any functional security camera to get a good clear look at him. He pulled the balaclava back down, shoved the remaining takings into the last bag and waved the others towards the door.

They found their path blocked by three Asian men—one large, one larger, and one gigantic. It seemed Punkin and his new posse had knocked over the wrong outfit. This place was protected. The first guy was a wide-boy in a glossy suit, armed with an automatic. The second was a muscular troll with a crew cut dressed in camo gear, the image completed by a thick cigar and a MAC-10 machine pistol. The third was an ogre in a tracksuit wielding a TEC-9 machine pistol. Each man had the cold, hard eyes of a killer.

“You stupid wazzocks,” Crew Cut snorted. “Don’t you know who owns this place?”

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