The Chase by Janet Evanovich

Author:Janet Evanovich
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House LLC
Published: 2014-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Six police officers, led by Inspector Zhaoji Li, crept up on the Charger, their guns drawn. They could hear pounding and a muffled voice coming from the trunk. As Zhaoji got closer, he could tell that it was a woman’s voice, and that she was calling for help in English.

Zhaoji sent four officers into the brush to look for the driver. He holstered his gun and slapped the trunk with the palm of his hand to get the attention of whoever was inside.

“This is the police,” he said in English. “Be still. We’re going to open the trunk.”

“Make it fast,” she said.

Zhaoji noted that she didn’t sound scared. She sounded angry.

He told the remaining officers to cover him. The officers drew their weapons and stood off to one side as Zhaoji opened the trunk.

Kate blinked at the sudden light and wiped blood from her lower lip with the back of her hand. She was wedged in beside the two metal cases. Clearly, she had recently been beaten and bandaged. There was blood in her hair, and her shirt and jeans were blood-caked.

In spite of her bloody appearance, Zhaoji thought she didn’t look like a victim. She was focused and angry.

“I’m Special Agent Kate O’Hare with the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” she said. “Tell me you’ve got him.”

“Who?”

“Nicolas Fox. Who else?”

She tried to get up, but Zhaoji held up his hand in a halting gesture.

“Stay where you are,” he said to her, and then in Chinese he ordered one of the officers to call an ambulance and to alert the other units that Fox might be on foot. That’s when Zhaoji realized that none of his officers knew what Fox looked like beyond the fact that he was a white male in his early thirties. By the time central command sent photos of Fox to every officer in every patrol car, the thief would be long gone, if he wasn’t already.

The inspector turned back to Kate, and he could see her reading the defeated expression on his face.

“Damn,” she said. “You’ve lost him.”

He shrugged. “But we have you.”

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