The Ring - An Alex Dorring Thriller by Vince Vogel

Author:Vince Vogel [Vogel, Vince]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-15T16:00:00+00:00

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Like always, the Westfield shopping center was brimming with people. It stood as a beacon of commerce in front of the gate to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. It had been built at the same time as the park and opened shortly before the London Olympics in 2012, as though it were a monument to England and all it stood for. Consumerism.

Dorring entered the flow of bodies that moved listlessly like the walking dead amongst the polished surfaces and shop fronts. He went down several escalators to the bottom. It was four floors that went in a curve for several hundred yards. He found the food court and walked its length, gazing at the various people sitting at tables. He spotted Foster. Sitting alone in a corner.

Dorring took a seat opposite. Foster looked worried.

“We have to be quick,” he said immediately. “They got to me before you called. I’m to help bring you in.”

“Who got to you?”

“Huh! I wish I knew. Someone above me. They got your name from somewhere.”

The computer taking the photo at the Belgravia, Dorring said to himself. It must’ve scanned my eyes. Found me on the system. So this is how high it goes up.

“They sent several agents to see me,” Foster went on, “and coerce me into giving you up. There’s two agents close to us on standby. Don’t look. Keep your eyes on me.”

“You have any idea who it could be?”

“Not yet. All I can say is that you’ve upset someone very high up in the organization. I don’t know what you’re up to, but it’s very dangerous. So are you going to tell me what it is?”

“I’m looking for a girl. She’s caught up in this thing with Charles Carter.”

“Oh, Christ,” Foster mumbled. “So am I to believe it was you who took the manager of the Belgravia?”

“Yes. He’s in the boot of my car. I’ve not had the heart to let him go yet.”

“Well, you won’t be able to go back to the car. They’ll have watched you come in. There’s an agent in the security office of this place, watching the cameras. We’ll have to disband for the moment and I’ll try to reach you later.”

“I need as much intel on something called the Ring.”

“I’ve heard of it. A band of powerful pedophiles.”

“That’ll be them.”

“Okay. I’ll do what I can. For now, you need to strike me and make a run for it. I’ll find you later. You ready?”

“Yep.”

Dorring burst up from his chair. Foster did the same and lunged for him. Dorring punched him hard in the jaw and he fell away limply.

“Get him!” Foster cried out.

Dorring was already skipping through the people. When he emerged from the knots of tables, a man stood with his palm held out and another hand inside his suit jacket. Plain, featureless face. He was an agent.

“Come quietly,” the man said.

On a table to Dorring’s right, a woman drank a steaming black coffee. He grabbed the cup as she went to feed it to her mouth and slung the piping hot drink in the agent’s face.

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