Blood World by Chris Mooney

Author:Chris Mooney [Mooney, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

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They drove north on California State Route 99 for two hours in silence. Well, not total silence. When the British female voice wasn’t announcing her turn-by-turn directions, Ellie listened to Anton snoring softly beside her.

The address Anton had plugged into the GPS was in Fresno.

What would bring Anton all the way out here, two hundred plus miles from LA?

Clearly Anton was afraid of being followed, which was why he had switched vehicles at the dealership and ordered her to leave her phone in his car. Clearly he suspected Frank or his people might be tailing him. Ellie was more concerned about her people.

Roland used her phone’s cell signal to track her movements. His people, Roland had told her, were watching her at pretty much all times, but they didn’t get too close, as they didn’t want Anton, Frank, or anyone else to get even the slightest whiff of being under surveillance. Ellie had no idea who Roland’s men (or women) were, because Roland wanted her to act natural and focus on her job, not spotting a familiar face and risking Anton or someone else she was working with picking up on it. The phone was the device that allowed the task force members working surveillance to hang back, and her phone was in LA. Had Roland’s people found out they had been duped? Probably Frank’s people, too, if they had been following Anton.

One thing was clear: there was a good chance she was on her own.

The uptight British GPS lady stiffly announced their destination was a mile ahead, on the right. Anton stirred awake. He sat up abruptly, and for some reason it reminded her of an old black-and-white horror movie she had seen a long time ago, when she was a kid—Dracula sitting up in his coffin, wide-awake and ready to feed on blood.

Where, exactly, are we going? Ellie wondered. Not a residential area—that was for sure. So far, the only things she’d seen on this long street were of the commercial variety: strip malls, big-box stores, and a couple of gas stations.

The address was for an expansive mall-like parking lot. It didn’t belong to a shopping mall but to an old Toyota manufacturing plant. She’d caught the sign in the front, long since faded by the sun and neglect, a couple letters missing.

“Drive around to the back,” Anton said, yawning.

“I think it’s time you tell me what I’m walking into.”

“You’re not walking into anything. You’re going to stay in the car.” There wasn’t a trace of anxiety in his voice—or on his face, for that matter. He yawned again, his jaw popping. She could see his eyes blinking behind his sunglasses. “And stay frosty, okay? Eyes and ears, eyes and ears—especially on your six. You don’t want anyone to smoke check you.”

It annoyed the shit out of her when he spoke in military slang, as if he had been a real soldier instead of a thug who did blood, shot ’roids into an ass cheek, shopped at Barneys, and had a five-thousand-dollar espresso machine in his condo.

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