Scoundrels by Gary Phillips

Author:Gary Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books

Chapter 28

So that’s Markus finished then.

That was my acerbic thought as I watched the killer tumble from the sixth-floor balcony and plummet from sight.

My next thought: Rink’s going to be pissed at me.

After Rink had collected McTeer and Velasquez from the airport and they had taken over the minder duties, I’d briefed him about Harvey’s discovery, and the likelihood that our enemy was Charles Peterson’s firstborn son, Markus Colby. Discovering that Markus was so hell bent on destruction that he’d murdered Michaela Douchard, and even his half-brother, Nicolas, it stood to reason that he would not stop until he’d had his day with Parnell and Faulks. His agenda had escalated exponentially, and neither of us believed he’d allow more than a couple of days to go by without trying to get at one or the other of them. He had no way of knowing that we’d already snatched the old guys out from under him, so the probability of him launching an attack at Hayes Tower was a firm possibility. We’d arrived just as dusk was falling, leaving our car in a lot on the far side of service yard bordering the Christian book depository, and entering via the rear of the building. We had foregone Faulks’ place, electing instead to set up a trap at the highest and most defensible point on the upper floor. Parnell informed us that his neighbour who held tenancy of the final apartment on his level was currently out of town, visiting relatives down in Los Angeles. I jimmied the flimsy lock and set up in the neighbouring apartment while Rink ensconced himself in Parnell’s. Two pay-as-you-go cell phones we’d picked up on our way in allowed us to keep in touch, and to coordinate a pincer movement for when the killer showed.

We hadn’t expected for our unknown friends in the sand-coloured car to take up observations again. We had waited for them to make their move, but apparently they were stalling until there were no witnesses out on the street. Finally as evening had settled in, Rink had made a decision.

‘Let’s find out what these jokers want and who the fuck they’re working for.’

He had jerked aside the curtains, ensuring that they noticed the sudden movement.

I had angled myself so that I could watch from the neighbouring window and saw the guys exit their car and tool up. The guy who leaned inside the trunk to fetch their weapons concealed his actions, but I still caught a glint of steel before he shoved the items under his coat. Whatever they were bringing to the party it wasn’t handguns: they looked more like steel bars. I thought that they weren’t here for either of the old men, but to extract information from them about where to find us. Rink’s warning had been explicit to Sean Chaney, but it seemed that his buddies weren’t the type to listen. As the second guy collected his weapon from his friend, he looked up at Parnell’s window.

The two

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