Connolly John - Charlie Parker 07 - 2008 - The Reapers by Connolly John

Author:Connolly John
Language: ita
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, General, Mystery & Detective, Fiction
ISBN: 9781501122675
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-11-23T22:00:00+00:00

Two to hold each of the bridges, maybe more.

Four in the town for backup.

Two teams of four approaching the property crosscountry.

And, if we lived in an ideal world, a big-ass chopper to take them all out once they were done.

Even then, there would be problems with communication.

There’s no cellphone coverage that deep into the mountains.

The trees and the gradient of the land mean that there’s no line of sight, so walkie-talkies are out of the question for us.” “Satellite phones?” “Yeah, and maybe we could send the cops a letter of confession as well.” Angel shrugged.

At least he’d asked.

“So how many do we have?” “Ten, ourselves included.” “We could bring in Parker.

That would give us eleven.” Louis shook his head.

“This is our game.

Let’s play it, see what numbers we roll.” He picked up four images, photographs of Leehagen’s house taken with increasing degrees of magnification, and set them alongside one another, comparing angles, revealed points of access, weaknesses, strengths.

And Angel walked away, leaving him to his plans.

They both understood that this was not the way such things were done.

There should have been background checks carried out, weeks—even months—of preparation, alternative entry and exit strategies examined, yet they did none of these things.

In part, they recognized the urgency of the situation.

Their friends, their home, had been targeted.

Gabriel had been grievously wounded.

Even without the information provided by Hoyle, they knew that it was in the nature of a man who would act in such a reckless way not to retreat after initial reverses.

He would come at them again and again until he succeeded, and everyone close to them was at risk as a consequence.

As in most matters that concerned them both, it was Angel who was the more perceptive, the one who recognized underlying motives, the one who instinctively homed in on the feelings of others.

Despite all that remained hidden about his partner, he was attuned to the other man’s rhythms, his modes of thought and methods of reasoning, in a way that he believed was alien to Louis in their relationship.

For a man who had lived so long in a gray world, drained of morality and conscience, Louis was always most comfortable with what was black and white.

He was not prone to selfexamination, and when he did analyze himself he did so entirely at one remove, as though he were a detached observer of his own follies and failings.

Angel sometimes wondered if that was a consequence of the lifestyle he had chosen, but he suspected that it was probably an integral aspect of Louis’s makeup, as much a part of him as his color and his sexuality, a thing stamped upon his consciousness before he even left his mother’s womb, waiting to be called into being as the boy grew older.

Gabriel had recognized that singlemindedness, and had harnessed it.

Now circumstances had intervened and, in a way, Louis was once again serving Gabriel, although this time as his avenger.

The problem was that his desire to act, to strike, to release some of that pent-up energy had made him incautious.

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