The Bloodline Trilogy by Adam Nicholls

Author:Adam Nicholls [Nicholls, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Shouldn’t I have a gun?” Blake asked Val, coiling an earpiece around his ear. They were sitting in the back of the van, where the air was hot and stuffy.

“Guns hurt people. You should know that better than most.” Val was rummaging through a bag, handing sheets of paper over to Jackie, who studied each of them and placed them onto her lap with the rest of the files.

“Nobody has to know. I could hide it under my coat.”

Val stopped what he was doing, shot a look at Jackie, and then shifted to sit opposite Blake. “Okay. And what then? Are you going to shoot someone in this public library? Is that your plan?”

It sounded ridiculous now that it had been said aloud. “No… I’m sorry. I just thought that if we bump into Greg, I might want to defend myself.”

“Greg has no idea where we are,” Jackie said from the front seat, still fiddling with pieces of paper and a handful of gadgets. “Anyway, we could only hope to see him again. If you want Rachel back. God knows how likely that is.”

“Jackie!” Val snapped in the paternal tone Blake hadn’t heard in years.

“Sorry. I just—”

“It’s okay,” Blake said. “We’ll find her.” He didn’t really believe it himself, but he wasn’t planning on giving up any time soon. They would need to kidnap the Agency’s banker, let them know their position of power, then make a deal with them to get Rachel back, safe and sound where she belonged. But that was after the job at hand. After the library.

“You ready to go?” Val handed him the USB stick, slow and carful as if it was about to blow up in his hands.

“It’s not that sensitive,” Blake told him, snatching it. He threw it up in the air and caught it, then did it again. “Look, it’s nothing. You can get them for a couple dollars in most stores.”

Val’s forehead creased as he got ready to leap forward and catch it, but then semi-relaxed. “If you say so. Now get a move on.” He tapped his earpiece. “Stay in touch. And remember, no irrational moves. Think it through. Remember what you’ve learned.”

Blake nodded, hopped out of the van, and headed across the street to the library. As he approached, he found himself looking up at the impressive architecture. It’d been here for about a hundred years, though it hadn’t always been a library. Blake struggled to recall what he’d read about it exactly other than it had been renovated over the years—a brick replaced here, one replaced there. And now the building itself looked like something new, something modern, but still maintained the ghostly charm of its former self.

Distracted, he walked right into something, a person. “Excuse m—”

The police officer brushed Blake off, scowled, and then stopped to study him.

“Careful. Try not to look suspicious.” Val’s voice in his ear.

The officer looked him up and down, but his short, female partner placed a hand on his arm and

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.