Tyrannosaur Canyon by Douglas Preston
Author:Douglas Preston [Preston, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers
ISBN: 0765311046
Google: g4AO32AKV9cC
Amazon: 0765349655
Barnesnoble: 0765349655
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-08-11T05:00:00+00:00
4
MADDOX PARKED THE Range Rover in front of the Sunrise Liquor Mart and checked his watch. Nine twenty-one. A half-dozen beer advertisements in the plate-glass window threw a confusion of neon light onto the dusty hood of his car. Save for the guy behind the counter it was empty. The moon had not yet risen. He knew, from earlier research, he would see the headlights of a southbound car two minutes and forty seconds before it passed.
He got out, shoved his hands in his pockets, leaned on the car, drew in a deep breath of cool desert air, closed his eyes, murmured his mantra, and managed to get his heart rate down to something a little more normal. He opened his eyes. The highway was still dark. Nine twenty-two. He had passed Broadbent in his ‘57 Chevy eleven minutes ago, and if the man followed directions, turned around quickly, and maintained his speed, his headlights should appear in the north in just over six minutes.
He walked into the convenience store, bought a slice of ten-hour-old pizza and a giant cup of burnt coffee, paid with exact change. He went back out to his car, hooked a boot on the fender, glanced up the dark highway. Two more minutes. Another glance into the store told him the kid was absorbed in a comic. He poured the coffee out on the tarmac and slung the piece of pizza into a cholla cactus already festooned with trash. He checked his watch, checked his cell—good signal.
He got in his car, started the engine, and waited.
Nine twenty-six.
Nine twenty-seven.
Nine twenty-eight.
Bingo: a pair of headlights emerged from the sea of blackness in the north. The headlights slowly grew in size and brightness as the car approached on the undivided, single-lane highway—and then the truck passed in a flash of turquoise, the red taillights receding into the blackness to the south. Nine-thirty and forty seconds.
He waited, his eyes on the watch, counting out one minute exactly, then he pressed the speed-dial button on his cell.
“Yes?” The voice answered immediately.
“Listen carefully. Maintain your speed. Do not slow down or speed up. Roll down the right-hand window.”
“What about my wife?”
“You’ll get her in a moment. Do as I say.”
“I’ve got the window down.”
Maddox watched the second hand on his watch. “When I tell you, take your cell phone, hang up but leave it on. Put it in the Ziploc bag with the notebook and throw them all out the window. Wait until I give you the signal. After you toss it, don’t stop, keep driving.”
“Listen, you son of a bitch, I’m not doing anything until you tell me where my wife is.”
“Do what I say or she’s dead.”
“Then you’ll never see this notebook.”
Maddox checked his watch. Already three and a half minutes had passed. With one hand on the wheel, he pressed the accelerator and turned out on the highway, leaving a line of smoking rubber in the parking lot. “She’s in the old campground at Madera Creek, you know the place? Forty miles south of here on the Rio Grande.
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