The Corpse in Highgate Cemetery: (Quigg 8) by Tim Ellis

Author:Tim Ellis
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Koko Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

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‘Why do they want you to kill Quigg?’

‘That’s what I do. And I was already . . . dealing with matters.’

‘No. I mean, what’s he ever done to them that they want you to kill him?’

‘He knows too much.’

‘He doesn’t know anything.’

‘That’s too much. He was married to one of their operatives, and now they’re not sure how much he knows.’

‘He knows nothing about nothing. His brains are in his dick.’

‘They’re not willing to take the chance. He knew about Lancer Communications, and now he’s paying a private investigator – who’s already found out far too much about his wife and is trying to track down his daughter Phoebe, the police are trying to find me . . .’

‘You?’

‘I killed some people.’

‘How many people have you killed?’

‘I don’t keep count, but it’s well over a hundred.’

‘So, my father is a mass murderer?’

‘An assassin. I kill people for a living, not for any other reason.’

‘You’re splitting hairs.’

He shrugged. ‘So now they want Quigg dead, and I’ve been ordered to do it.’

‘What if you don’t do it?’

‘They’ll kill Billy, and then they’ll kill us. After that, they’ll send someone else to kill Quigg and his extended family. The job will get done one way or another.’

‘Unless . . . ?’

‘There’s no “unless”. We free Billy, and then all three of us will come down here and disappear until it’s safe to come out again. They don’t know about this place.’

‘And what about Quigg, Ruth, Duffy and the children?’

He shook his head. ‘They’re not my concern.’

‘Well, they’re mine. I was the one who started all this off. I called the private detective agency. It’s my fault your people now want to kill everyone.’

‘There’s nothing we can do. Look after number one – that’s my motto.’

‘I’ve changed my mind – I’m not going to help you.’

‘But . . . Billy’s your brother.’

‘And Quigg is the man I love. Ruth, Duffy and the children are my family.’

‘Me and Billy are your family.’

‘Biological family only. I don’t really know who either of you are anymore. We save everybody or nobody.’

‘It’s impossible. They’re too powerful.’

Lucy sat down in the tunnel opposite him. ‘We’ll just hide down here then, should we?’

‘You always were a troublesome child.’

‘That’s what Quigg thinks as well.’

‘Who is this Quigg anyway?’

‘I’ve told you, he’s the man I love.’

‘You’re still young. There are lots of men out there.’

‘Not like Quigg. He’s both strong and weak at the same time, and he loves me.’

‘I love you.’

‘It’s not the same. So, do we just sit here with our arses in the air, or is there a way?’

‘You never used to talk like that.’

‘Yeah well, I do now. It’s what happens when your parents desert you and you’re taken into care.’

He looked away. ‘Even if we were stupid enough to kill all the operatives who work for Lancer Communications, there’s still the Druid Council.’

‘We’ll kill them as well.’

‘I have no idea who they are.’

‘Then we’ll find out.’

‘You’re talking about months of painstaking investigative work. By the time we

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