Attack at Dead Man's Bay by Paul Adam

Author:Paul Adam
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409024620
Publisher: RHCP

THIRTEEN

MAX WAS A quarter of a mile from the buffalo paddock when he heard the distant sounds of sirens and guessed that the emergency services were on their way. He was shaken by what had happened. He hadn’t wanted to injure the gunmen, but they’d left him with no choice. He’d acted purely in self-defence; opening the gate had been an impulse decision, the only action left to him. He’d thought it might create a diversion, give him the chance to slip away. It hadn’t occurred to him that the buffalo would charge out and trample the men. In retrospect, he would do the same thing again, he realized. They’d tried to kill him. Why should he feel sympathy for them? If they’d had their way, it would be Max lying there dead in the enclosure.

He jogged across the fairway of a golf course, then paused in a copse to strip off his wet clothes, wring the water out of them and then put them back on. They were cold and clammy. He shivered and kept running, knowing he wasn’t out of danger yet. There had been four men in total pursuing him across the park. Two of them were no longer a threat, but what of the other two? Were they still searching the area for him?

Max stayed vigilant until he reached the edge of the park and came out onto a well-lit street. Even there, he didn’t feel completely safe as he headed east towards the downtown area, walking as fast as his exhausted body would allow and keeping his eyes skinned for any signs of the other two men.

As he walked, he thought about what had happened in Haight-Ashbury just an hour or so earlier – the shock he’d felt as he watched Tony Halstead being gunned down, his father taken away. He could still see his dad’s face, his expression as the car went past. The memory cut into his heart like a knife. He’d been stunned by his dad’s appearance, how frail and ill he looked. Where had the men taken him? Why had they taken him away at all? Why hadn’t they simply killed him in the house in Shrader Street? There had to be a reason.

Had they gone to Rescomin headquarters? It was possible, maybe more than possible. Max had intended going there, in any case, to see if he could find out what had happened to the consignments of Episuderon that had been sent there from Woodford Down Laboratories, but looking for his dad now gave him another good reason to check it out. And he couldn’t afford to delay. If his dad was there, Max had to find him quickly.

Should he try to do it alone? Maybe not. Maybe he should go back to the hotel and consult Chris and Consuela, let the police look for his father. But would the police be interested? Would they believe Max’s story, which had all the hallmarks of fantasy, the product of a teenage

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