Black Butterfly: A Secret Service Thriller by Mark Gatiss

Author:Mark Gatiss
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780743283984
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2009-02-10T00:00:00+00:00

A man with a clipboard was supervising. As well as the regulation lab coat, he was sporting a kind of gas-mask, presumably as defence against whatever toxic substance was contained in the tanks. In the stark striplighting from the loading bay beyond, the eye-holes were a queasy green colour and the mask itself semi-transparent. Still, I thought grimly, it would suit my purpose.

Now all I had to do was to attract the chap’s attention. I rapidly considered my options–everything from hooting like an owl to rolling coins towards him–when the decision was taken out of my hands. The forklift suddenly gave an unhealthy sort of rattle, stalled and rolled backwards, upsetting the pallet that was balanced on the twin prongs and scattering what looked like aspirin pills all over the dusty yard.

Pills! Was this ‘Black Butterfly’?

The gas-masked supervisor immediately threw up his hands in horror. He wrenched open the forklift’s cabin door and berated the driver in a stream of incomprehensible oaths. The driver, fat and also masked, wearing a too-tight T-shirt, shrugged and muttered and swore back, clearly believing the accident to be no fault of his.

The supervisor sighed heavily, stepped back into the shadows to make a note on his clipboard and then made a high, surprised gurgling sound as my arm snaked round his neck and squeezed him into unconsciousness. In moments, I reappeared, holding the clipboard and adjusting the mask over my white hair. I made a rude gesture to the forklift driver, and then I was through the door, eager to put as much distance between myself and the harsh light of the exterior.

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