Valley of Death by Scott Mariani

Author:Scott Mariani [Mariani, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9780008235963
Google: vCntuQEACAAJ
Amazon: B07KKQYKV9
Barnesnoble: B07KKQYKV9
Goodreads: 41716150
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2019-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 40

Ben ended the call and laid the phone on the dash. He said, ‘Well, that’s very interesting.’

Brooke was staring at him in the darkness. The rain was drumming harder than ever on the car roof and cascading down the windows.

She said, ‘But what on earth does it mean?’

‘It means that the bad guy with the broken tooth who kidnapped your husband made seven phone calls to the guy who works for the Ray family. And received nine from the same person. Which amounts to quite a correspondence. And tells us that your friend Prem Sharma isn’t quite who he appears to be.’

‘What are we going to do?’

Ben fired up the car. The engine roared, the headlamps stabbed rainy searchlight beams deep into the night and the wipers slapped a torrent of water clear of the glass. He replied, ‘Slight change of plan. Rakhigarhi will have to wait. We’re going to go back to the house and pay a visit to Prem.’

‘I’ll shoot him,’ Brooke said.

‘First he needs to tell us how he’s mixed up in this, and what’s going on. Then you can shoot him.’

‘Right between the eyes. If any harm has come to Amal. And even if it hasn’t. I swear, Ben, I will.’

‘One step at a time,’ he said. ‘Remember?’

Neither of them spoke again for a while, as Ben sliced diagonally south-east back across the city towards the Ray residence. The rain was falling even harder now, cannoning off the windscreen like hail, the wipers working full tilt. Brooke rummaged in the glove box, found a small cable with a jack plug on one end and a USB connector on the other and used it to hook Ben’s phone up to the car’s audio system so they could both hear. Then she tried calling Prem’s number again, but it was still engaged. She sat back in the passenger seat, seething with rage.

The revelation of Prem’s involvement in the situation was a weird, baffling twist that Ben couldn’t figure out at all, so rather than burn his brain out trying to understand, he kept his mind blank and focused on driving them there as fast as he could through the downpour. Brooke’s presence next to him felt like a volcano ready to erupt. He knew her thoughts were boiling, but the fact that she stayed silent made it clear that she had no more of a clue what this was about than he did.

Meanwhile, the character of the city morphed radically in front of their eyes as they left the poverty and the squalor far behind them and neared the suburban havens where the other half lived. The closer they got to the Ray residence, the more Ben could feel Brooke tensing up in anticipation. She had her ethnic embroidered handbag on her lap with the loaded revolver in it, and a determined set to her jaw. To face an angry Brooke was a daunting prospect, as Ben knew from personal experience. He wouldn’t have wanted to be in Prem’s shoes for anything, once they reached the house.

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