The Courier by Ava McCarthy

Author:Ava McCarthy [Ava McCarthy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007366088
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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Harry rubbed her eyes and squinted at the screen.

FRANCIS (down) (down) I (space) REFUSE (space) TO (space) ENTR (space) (left) (left) E (right) (right) STEADY (space) PGGY (backspace) (backspace) (backspace) (backspace) PEGGY (space) UNTIL (space) SHE (space) IS (space) FIT.

Harry’s eyelids drooped, and it took a couple of pantosized blinks to keep them open. She skimmed through the next section of the keylogger file, piecing the text together.

It was the first espionage report from the spyware program she’d airdropped on to Kruger’s machine. Page after page, it revealed every key he’d hit over the last twelve hours. By now she’d plodded through most of it, and so far all she’d found were innocent emails, along with evidence of Kruger’s clumsy typing style.

She arched her back against the plush leather chair, listening to her spine crunch. The painkillers were finally kicking in, dulling the aches in her head and shoulder. She was still in her father’s suite, making use of its free workstation and internet access while he escorted Ros downstairs.

Harry pecked at the page-down key, browsing through the file she’d downloaded from her web mail account. Her brain felt sluggish, like a wet sponge, as she struggled to absorb what Ros had said. If Harry’s guess was right, Garvin’s supply of large stones was fouling up the Van Wycks operation. According to Ros, Van Wycks worked hard to keep two key things alive: the exorbitant price of large diamonds, and the myth that they were scarce. Garvin’s pipeline posed a serious threat to both.

Was that why he’d been killed?

Something rippled along Harry’s spine. Tangling with crooked diamond traders was bad enough, but going up against the tyranny of a global cartel was more than she could handle. As soon as Ros had left, she’d phoned Hunter, gripped by an alien need to ask the detective for help. But Hunter had been unavailable. In the end, she’d left an urgent message asking him to call.

Harry scanned through the rest of the file, noting that Kruger had gone online to check his flights to Cape Town. Then he’d written another terse email to one of his owners, and finished up with a Google search. She stared at the search query he’d entered:

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