The Phoenix Series Box Set 3 by Ted Tayler

Author:Ted Tayler [Tayler, Ted]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Thursday, 5th June 2014

Hugo Hanigan stood in his penthouse suite looking out of his window on the world. His world, the City of London, that square mile famous for the United Kingdom's trading and financial services industries. This was where he made his fortune. This was where the Grid continued to thrive. The beating heart of the network of criminal organisations of which he was the leader.

A month ago, he visited his mother’s grave in Dublin. In the weeks leading up to his annual pilgrimage, he had issued orders to his various gang leaders that a message must be sent. Those in authority in the government, and in the police, should hear and understand that message. Those in opposition to him, who operated gangs too stupid to see the benefits of joining the Grid, should fear his reaction to their ignorance.

People died the length and breadth of the country. The stranglehold the Grid held over the nation was demonstrated. The message crystal clear.

Yet, Hugo was a troubled man. The financial voice on his shoulder told him that the overall business was up and profits higher than ever. An attempt to pervert the course of justice by murdering a High Court Judge had been thwarted, it was true, and Tommy O’Riordan would be in Belmarsh for the rest of his life. Hugo hadn’t prevented that. Yet things hadn’t been disrupted in his gang’s manor to any great extent, nor across the country.

Sean Walsh had slipped into Tommy’s seat while it was still warm. He was doing a grand job, even if his lieutenant Seamus McConnell was useless. No, Tommy wasn’t missed. His appeal was a joke and bound to fail. Colleen, his wife, ran around like a headless chicken, flogging off Tommy’s cars and sorting her kids out. Not before time for those two spongers. It was obvious she had cashed in whatever she could to give herself a chance of seeing out her time without ever needing to work for a living. She’d never had to graft while Tommy was a free man. He’d looked after her ever since she was fourteen. It was time she found out what happened in the real world.

Hugo continued to tick off the list of things that didn’t worry him. Even those that had annoyed him at the time. All the while, a tiny voice on his other shoulder asked him why there were deaths and disappearances of Grid employees around the country he couldn’t explain.

It was fast approaching eleven o’clock. Sean Walsh would arrive soon. They met at least twice a week these days, and Hugo kept the meetings as brief as possible. Sean was never comfortable up here in these surroundings. Hugo couldn’t imagine why; the view was to die for. He laughed out loud at his unintentional joke. Hundreds had died over the years; they needed to so he could afford this place.

The meetings were necessary for him to keep in touch with his roots. Sean helped him do that. He told him what was happening on the ground in Kilburn and the boroughs that bordered it.

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