The Black Hornet by Sinclair Rob

Author:Sinclair, Rob [Sinclair, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Crime, Mystery
Amazon: B071HXXLJB
Goodreads: 35179133
Publisher: Bloodhound Books
Published: 2017-06-09T07:00:00+00:00

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Ryker was right about one thing; the opportunity he was looking for came sooner, rather than later.

Powell drove the two of them into the non-stop bustle of the centre of Mexico City. He’d given little away about their destination and Ryker hadn’t bothered to ask.

Eventually, Powell pulled the car to the side of the road outside a crumbling four-storey building that from the signage Ryker could see passed as a mid-range hotel.

This was Ryker’s chance. Not a subtle getaway, but at least he had an element of surprise, and Mexico City was one of the largest and most sprawling cities in the world. If Ryker could lose Powell now, he’d have a good chance of staying away from him for good. Plus Ryker knew if he remained there then more of Powell’s team would soon become involved. Powell was unlikely to be running such a big operation on his own; to make sure Ryker kept up his part of the deal, he would need to draft in extra help. That would make Ryker escaping later all the more difficult. Right now though it was just Powell and Ryker. This was the moment.

Ryker stepped from the car first and scanned the scene – the buildings, the busy pavement, the four lanes of traffic, the side streets.

‘I know it’s not five star,’ Powell said, emerging from the car, ‘but–’

He never got any further than that. Ryker was already running.

Ryker dashed across two lanes of traffic. Tyres screeched, horns blared. Across on the other side of the road the mass of vehicles – all yellowed from the sand and grit that clogged up the city air – were just coming to a stop at a red light. At the front of the queue was a moped. A delivery guy, by the look of the box on the back with a courier logo. He must have caught sight of Ryker rushing toward him because he turned when Ryker was almost on him, cowering away as his eyes went wide in shock.

‘Bajate!’ Ryker screamed. Get off. At least that’s what he hoped it meant.

The guy hesitated. Ryker reached out to shove him off. Only then did the man move. In the end, Ryker only had to give a small nudge to clear the guy from the machine before he jumped on, pulled the throttle, and shot away from the standing traffic.

For a brief moment, Ryker felt guilty. He’d just moped-jacked some poor sod, probably a teenager earning a pittance. Would he lose his job for having lost his company’s vehicle? But there was more at stake than one kid on a corporate moped.

Guilt banished, Ryker weaved the moped through the criss-crossing traffic that sped across the junction in front of him. He tipped the little machine this way and that, coming to within an inch or two of colliding with a truck whose bulk filled Ryker’s peripheral vision for what felt like an age before it thundered past.

Somehow or other, Ryker made it through the

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