Assignment- London by Craig A Hart & S J Varengo

Author:Craig A Hart & S J Varengo [Hart, Craig A & Varengo, S J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Northern Lake Publishing
Published: 2018-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

10

Punctuality, our parents teach us, is a virtue. But for a criminal, especially one on Lyndsey Archer’s hit list, a fastidious nature could be harmful to one’s health, fatal even. She’d made up her mind the minute the Wolf had handed her the Velvet Glove’s dossier that the Glove was going to die resisting her efforts to recruit him. After their encounter in Ireland, there was no way she was going to deliver him to the Wolf. It would be like the meeting of two cyclones that merge and then veer straight towards populated landfall. Besides, her directive from Moore was to send a few low-level thugs the Wolf’s way while eliminating anyone who might actually be dangerous.

She’d also learned from the dossier that the Velvet Glove had a habit, no matter where he was or what he was doing, of returning to his flat around one o’clock in the afternoon on Sunday. The file didn’t indicate why, merely that it was his routine. She could not have known that the Wolf’s previous two attempts at either recruiting or killing the man had also used this factoid but had only resulted in him missing his usual return to the flat.

She knelt at the edge of the building directly across from his on Fashion Street. Once a dark passage filled with overcrowded doss houses during the days Jack the Ripper worked Whitechapel, it was now lined with attractive East End apartments and shops. A row of bicycle rentals lined the front of the Glove’s building, completing the charming picture that no doubt was a full one-eighty from the scene that would have greeted the man “from hell.”

She’d gotten to the sniper’s nest a little later than she’d intended and hadn’t actually seen the Velvet Glove arrive home. Truth was, she didn’t even know if he had, though based on the file and her own experience of his disposition, she was sure he’d just gotten there before her. The optical scope of her M21 rifle was trained unwaveringly at the building’s only entrance.

Her line of work often required this kind of patience, and it was not her strongest suit. Give her some close-quarters hand-to-hand combat over this stealthy shit any day. But on the other hand, she was sure she didn’t want to get too close to the Velvet Glove again. Considering the nature of their one and only prior meeting, she wasn’t really interested in a second face-to-face. He would die resisting from a distance of about sixty feet.

As she sat silently, peering through the scope, her normal aversion to waiting became amplified by the unwanted thoughts running through her head. Seeing Burke and not running to him the other day had been murder. Moore had told her he was in London, and he’d given her strict orders not to make contact until she had eliminated the five names he’d given her… the five most dangerous criminals currently working in the UK. The Glove, having flown completely under everyone’s radar, was not on the list.

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