Spy for Hire by Dan Mayland

Author:Dan Mayland [Mayland, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
Amazon: B00DOKCKQU
Goodreads: 18319822
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-02-18T06:00:00+00:00

34

Delhi, India

Rad Saveljic groaned as he clutched his stomach. Maybe it was cancer, he thought. Because he couldn’t imagine how spicy food and a bad salad could make him feel this awful.

After breakfast at the Connaught, he’d caught a rickshaw to the vacant Delhi lot where the new BP office building would be located. Within minutes, he’d thrown up right in front of his boss. Then he’d thrown up again in the rickshaw he’d hired to take him back to his apartment. Then he’d dry heaved over the toilet for twenty minutes before stripping off his clothes and collapsing on the bed in his boxer shorts and undershirt.

Now, after trying to fall asleep for the better part of an hour as his stomach writhed, he threw the single cotton sheet off his body, stood up, and put his hand up to the wall-mounted air conditioner gurgling above his bed. He knew it. The air coming out of it wasn’t cold, not cold at all!

The building superintendent had come over the day before and supposedly fixed the thing. For a while Rad had thought he’d detected slightly cooler air coming out of it, but now the air conditioner was functioning more like a heater—and a loud one at that.

It was early afternoon and it seemed hotter than it had been in days past. Ninety degrees at least, and this in November for crying out loud. The pollution seemed thicker, too. And even though it was the middle of the day, it was hotter inside than out. He felt as though he were in a steam room.

Rad was half-tempted to take a rickshaw right back to the Connaught Hotel and check himself in for the night. But that would cost him a hundred and seventy bucks. He’d already been spending too much on food at the Connaught.

Better to just crack a window, see if he could get a bit of a breeze going.

But then he’d have to worry about the monkeys.

They were all over the city, begging and stealing food, terrorizing little kids. The day he’d moved in, a gang of them had clustered in his backyard. At first, he’d thought they were cute. He’d even taken a picture of one of them and texted it to his fiancée. How cool is this! Monkeys! Then he’d tried to feed one of them half of an apple he’d been eating. The little bastard had snapped at his finger and seconds later a half a dozen other monkeys had gathered around him, screeching.

He’d been driven back inside his apartment. Shaking. They’d scratched at the rear door and windows. Ever since, he’d kept out of the back garden and made sure to keep all his windows and doors shut tight.

But it was so hot in here. Surely everyone in Delhi didn’t keep their windows shut twenty-four hours a day. He’d overreacted. Reassuring himself that the monkeys weren’t going to climb through his window, Rad slid off the bed, walked to a nearby double-hung window, unlocked it, and slipped the top part down.

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