David Morrell by The Spy Who Came for Christmas

Author:The Spy Who Came for Christmas [Christmas, The Spy Who Came for]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

AS SNOW kept falling, Brody bent forward and used a gloved finger to draw the diagram of the house. “Cole’s room is in front on the right. There’s a bathroom next to it.” He indicated a door in a hallway “Then there’s the living room.”

Andrei, Mikhail, and Yakov stood next to Brody, studying the shadowy lines in the snow.

“And in back?” Andrei prompted him.

“Master bedroom on the right,” Brody said. “It has a bathroom you can reach only from the master bedroom. Then there’s my office—in back of the living room.”

“The kitchen’s on the left as I face the house? What’s behind it?” Andrei asked.

“A laundry room and another bathroom.”

Lots of bathrooms, Andrei thought. Even after having lived in the United States for ten years, he still hadn’t gotten used to all the bathrooms. When he was a boy, he and his mother had shared one with six other families.

“Show us where every window is.”

Brody did so.

“In the back,” Andrei said, “is there anything one of our team can stand on to look inside the house? He might be able to get a sense of what’s happening in there.”

Brody indicated the middle of the back of the house. “There’s a brick patio with an overhang. We have a barbecue grill and a metal table with metal chairs. Someone could easily move a chair to a window and stand on it.”

“Good. Now show us where every outside door is.”

Brody added to the diagram. “When the SWAT team gets here, they’re not just going to charge in, I hope. If there’s shooting, Meredith and Cole might—”

“Don’t worry Our men are professionals. They don’t shoot randomly. They make sure they’ve got the correct target, and even then, they don’t shoot unless it’s absolutely necessary.” “If anything happens to my wife and son … What did this guy do?”

“He held up a liquor store.”

“You mean he’s got a gun?”

“Please keep your voice down, Mr. Brody Yes, we suspect he’s armed.”

Brody groaned. “If I hadn’t lost my temper—if I hadn’t left them alone …” A thought made him straighten. “Maybe he’ll listen to reason. Maybe you can negotiate and stop this from getting out of control.”

“That’s hard to do without a phone. But there might be another possibility …”

Brody stepped toward him. “What?”

“It’s risky.”

“Tell me what it is.”

“It could be that I was wrong,” Andrei began.

“What do you mean? Wrong about what?”

“Not letting you go inside.”

Brody shook his head in confusion. “But you said that if I went in there, I wouldn’t do any good. I’d just become another hostage.”

“That was before you told me the phones aren’t working. We need to negotiate with him, and you’re the perfect person for that. You’ve got every reason to walk up to the house. When your wife explains who you are, the gunman won’t suspect you’re working with us. Detective Hardy will equip you with a miniature microphone and earbud.”

“Earbud?”

‘A tiny earplug that works as a radio receiver. The microphone will allow us to hear everything you say in there, and

maybe what the gunman says.

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