The Big Exit by David Carnoy

Author:David Carnoy [Carnoy, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Usenet, Mystery, Thriller, FIC031000, FIC022000, C429, Kat, Exratorrents
ISBN: 1590205154
Publisher: Overlook
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

19/ GOING LOW

SINCE THE HOTEL AND THE STATION HOUSE ARE ON OPPOSITE SIDES of town, Madden’s first impulse is simply to send the nearest patrol car. But just as he’s getting off the phone with Carolyn, he sees Carlyle pulling his Yukon into the parking lot. He rushes out to intercept him before he can come inside.

“Come on,” he says, grabbing him by the arm and turning him around. “We’re going for a ride.”

Carlyle couldn’t be happier. He jumps back in the driver’s seat and peels out of the lot. Soon they’re barreling across the El Camino, heading west on Santa Cruz Avenue, lights flashing, dipping in and out of the opposing lane to pass cars.

Carlyle slows for a tricky intersection and red light where Santa Cruz crosses Alameda de las Pulgas, then accelerates when Madden tells him he’s clear and to “go, go, go.” Carlyle, who doesn’t need any encouragement, slams down the gas pedal and shoots up the remaining bit of Santa Cruz, then makes a sharp right onto Sand Hill.

Just then the radio crackles and David Consuelo, the patrol officer who’d gone ahead of them to the hotel, says he’s at the location and that the suspect has reportedly left the premises. That’s when Madden spots a Ford Flex as it passes them on the other side of Sand Hill and something clicks in his mind. They were driving a two-tone Ford Flex. Forman had said it last night. At the time, Madden hadn’t given the descriptor a second thought, but the car that just went by had a black top and a silver body. Two-tone.

“Turn around,” he tells Carlyle. “I think that’s him.”

Carlyle’s just gone through the intersection with the turnoff to Sharon Heights and won’t hit the next turnaround point for another few hundred yards. But instead of waiting for it, he says, “Hold on,” hits the brakes, and makes a hard left over the raised divider, hitting the curb hard. The SUV lurches forward, then bounces up when the back tires climb the curb. Madden pops up in the air, his chest slamming up against his seat belt, which has locked and gone taut.

“Jesus,” he says as Carlyle guns the car and they drive away in the opposite direction.

Up ahead is a major four-way intersection where Sand Hill meets Santa Cruz and Junipero Serra. The light has already turned green and Madden, because they’re at the top of a slight crest in the road, catches a glimpse of the Flex heading down the hill on the other side of the intersection. Just off to the right behind a high chain-link fence is the Stanford golf course.

“Straight, straight,” he tells Carlyle, who floors it through the intersection. Madden feels his stomach drop as they almost catch air hitting the down slope on the other side.

Carlyle passes one car, then another, once again weaving into the opposing lane, forcing a couple of cars to swerve out of their way. The traffic is relatively light—it is a

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