Assignment - Tokyo by Edward S. Aarons

Author:Edward S. Aarons [Aarons, Edward S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-05-02T07:00:00+00:00

The hotel was not too far from the Fukisushi restaurant in Sendai. It was a Japanese version of a Western inn, fairly new, located above four floors of an office building. Skoll’s room was heated and air-conditioned, with a wide bed and Japanese prints on the pale lemon walls, and a view of the wide Hirose River and the tumbled walls and moat of the castle ruins on Aoba Hill. The mountains loomed on the horizon, less than an hour’s drive away, where Durell recalled a number of hot springs resorts.

Skoll led the way down the hall and into the room. He took off his coat with a shrug of his massive shoulders, and at the moment when his arms were still in the sleeves, Durell hit him.

The back of the man’s neck was thick and muscular. Skoll made a curious grunting sound and stumbled, his arms still entangled in his coat. His cigar stub fell from his open mouth. He caught himself on the foot of the bed and started to turn, his eyes glazed, and Durell swung again, a karate chop at the side of the thick throat. It was like hitting the trunk of a small tree. His hand blasted with sudden pain. Skoll tried to kick, but the defensive gesture was clumsy. Durell used his left hand, struck again, and Skoll went over backward onto the bed and lay still.

There had been very little noise.

Durell picked up the burning cigar and put it out in an ashtray, then took from his pocket a tiny case containing a hypodermic syringe and a small vial of Val-12 tranquilizer, developed by K Section’s lab men. It took only a moment to inject the unconscious Russian with the stuff. Skoll did not stir. He would not move for several hours now.

Satisfied, Durell looked at his watch, decided he had a few minutes before he was to meet Liz Pruett, and went to the telephone.

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