The Child Taker to Criminally Insane Box Set, Crime Books 1, 2 and 3 Detective Alec Ramsay Mystery Series (Detective Alec Ramsay Crime Mystery Suspense Series) by Jones Conrad

Author:Jones, Conrad [Jones, Conrad]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The Thriller Factory
Published: 2013-10-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 42

The Dream

Ashwan Pindar wiped sweat from his forehead. He clicked the windscreen wipers on as rain began to fall, blurring his vision. The headlights of oncoming vehicles were dazzling as he drove his Porsche. The radio was switched off, and engine noise filled the vehicle. The mobile phone in his hand beeped. Another set of instructions had arrived. He had been driving around in circles for nearly forty minutes now. Malik and his men were trying to second-guess where the kidnappers were sending him, sometimes following from a distance behind, while other vehicles sped ahead anticipating where the exchange would take place.

The message instructed him to head for `The Dream`. He indicated left and pulled off the motorway. In the distance, he could see a huge black mound silhouetted against the yellow glow of streetlight pollution. The lights of the industrial town of St. Helens illuminated the night sky; the black mound, which blotted them out for miles, was the slagheap of a long defunct coalmine. When the mines closed, the council spent fortunes planting grasses and trees. They built footpaths and tried to make them more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. The site of Sutton Manor colliery had been transformed into acres of parkland, crisscrossed by wide footpaths, all leading to a huge sculpture, called `The Dream`. The Dream is a white, twenty metres high sculpture of a woman`s head. A huge bust situated on top of the old mine. It can be seen from miles around, and it`s sited next to the M62 motorway, where it is seen by over a million drivers every year. It had become a landmark.

Ashwan had seen it a thousand times in the daylight, towering above the tree line. At night it looked eerie, the huge white face seemed to hang in mid air, like a giant ghost. He looked in his rear view mirror, trying to make out if his men were close behind. There were three sets of headlights, but he had no way of knowing if they were his backup or other motorists heading for the nearby town, and the sprawling housing estates that surround it. He forwarded the text message to Malik`s phone, as he pulled into a car park which serviced the site. The car park was unlit, and deserted. The mobile beeped again.

GET OUT OF THE CAR NOW AND TAKE THE RIGHT HAND PATH TO THE TOP. IF YOU TOUCH THE KEYPAD ONCE MORE MAMOOD DIES

“Shit,” he muttered. They were watching, and they knew that he had forwarded the message, or were they bluffing, and assuming that he would be sending the directions to his backup? Whatever, he couldn’t take the risk. Ashwan put the phone on the dashboard, opened the door and climbed out. He flicked the driver`s seat forward and grabbed the case of money. A car drove by slowly on the main road but Ashwan didn’t wait to see who was driving. There was no way any of his men could enter the car park without being spotted.

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