Shadows in Death by J. D. Robb

Author:J. D. Robb [Robb, J. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250207234
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Published: 2020-09-08T05:00:00+00:00

12

Eve watched Cobbe check out, noted he seemed in a better mood. He strolled out of the lobby, turned right, and went off the feed.

“Thinking of the cams now,” she said. “Making sure he gets his ride away from them. He’s got his place already set. He’s got the smirking confidence back on. We’ll track the limo he arrived in, and that’ll give us a little more. We’ll try cab pickups within a few blocks, but I don’t think he’d go there. Maybe, maybe, he’d use the same car service as arrival, but low odds on it.”

She glanced at Roarke, who nodded.

“In his place, I’d have already booked another service, under another name, take that to another drop-off, walk again, then catch a cab to my hole. It’s just basic precautions.”

“Agreed, but he may not take that extra step. And if it’s the same service, even if he did take that step, we can hit the cabs for pickups in that area.”

She paced away to the board, added the name of the LC and the ID photos she’d printed out. “We’ll get more from the LC. It’s in their interest to pay attention, notice details on a job. Baxter and Trueheart will get those out of her.”

She paced back. “Unlikely, highly, he’d have been able to rent or buy that hole so fast, wouldn’t be able to zero in and take somebody out to use their place. So it’s a contact, someone he knows. Bad guy safe house, that’s what it is.”

“I’ve some lines out there,” Roarke told her. “It may take a bit of persuading to get a bite on those lines, but I can be persuasive.”

“Yeah, you can. I’m going to review the feed again, and push on the other angles. He booked a shuttle, a limo, an LC, he got the cat from somewhere. The bad-guy safe house, that’s going to be a single-family residence. Upscale, good neighborhood, high-end security.”

“I have to point out there’s no lack of those in New York.”

“It’s a jump point, and if it’s what I think it is, it has rotating tenants. Upscale, good neighborhood, people notice that. It’s got a cover.”

She started pacing again. “Owner travels extensively for business, uses it as a New York base, renting it out short term to execs, blah blah. Wealthy individual or couple—no kids—friendly enough, but no socialization. Too busy.”

“Alternatively, it may be owned by a dummy corporation, and there’s your cover. It’s a space available to execs again, or clients.”

“Could be even better.” She stewed on it. “Yeah, even better that way. You’d want staff, but you could—and likely would—stick with droids. So we’ll look for single-family residences, and so on, owned by a business.”

“Why don’t I take that while you push your other angles?”

“That’ll work.”

Roarke took her auxiliary while she went back to the security feed. Details, she thought.

Check in—wearing black. Friendly enough, but with a bored look in his eyes. Just another job.

Heading out, the casual wave. Showered off the travel, she thought, casually dressed.

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