Dirty Deeds by Stephen Blackmoore

Author:Stephen Blackmoore [Blackmoore, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Ciencia ficción
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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“Which room is he in?” Weller says. She’s ready to strangle Martinez.

“Should be this one,” Martinez says. “We’re still digging out from under this computer glitch.” He leads her and the FBI pathologist, a man whose name she can’t remember but who she’s started thinking of as Comb-Over for his ridiculous attempts to hide his baldness, down the hall. Martinez had her sign five copies of the same damn form and three of another. She didn’t know if this was procedure or if he was just marking his territory, but it was pissing her off.

Before he can open the door to the morgue, there’s a tremendous crash inside the room. Weller draws her pistol, shoves Martinez out of the way and pushes her way into the room. She doesn’t know what she’s expecting. A car rammed into the side of the building. Maybe something larger, like a truck.

She’s not expecting to see a hole blown out from the inside.

It wasn’t a bomb, that much is obvious. Bombs don’t detonate so precisely in one direction. Something tore through the wall, leaving an irregularly shaped hole twice as wide as a person and about as high. Sparks and water shoot from snapped wiring and ruptured pipes. Twisted rebar pokes out of the remaining hole like broken fingers. Brick and mortar, drywall dust and chunks of concrete litter the alley outside the building, scattered in a fan shape from whatever force blew them out of the wall.

An Evo did this. And unless it’s one who has super-speed or can fly, too, they’ve got to be nearby. Carson bolts into the room, eyes wide in surprise as Weller steps through the hole. He recovers quickly, drawing his gun and following her.

There’s no one outside. She looks up, but she can’t see anyone. Maybe they can fly. Or maybe they can jump.

“Check around the side,” she says. “I’ll hit the parking structure.” Carson nods and heads down the alley. Weller skips the ground floor. The walls have no gaps, so if the Evo went that way, there would be another big hole. She stops at the second floor, looking across the sea of cars. Visibility is terrible, and she can’t be sure there’s no one there. She listens for footsteps, but the traffic on the streets outside is too loud.

She heads up to the top floor. If someone did jump up here, staying on the second floor would have left them trapped. More maneuverability at the top, more visibility. And more places to go. She doesn’t see anyone, but she checks between the cars anyway. It’s less packed than the lower floors. She looks up at the only other building nearby, a hospital. Did the Evo jump across to it? She holsters her pistol. If anyone was up here, they’re long gone now.

She meets Carson, Martinez and Comb-Over outside the coroner’s building, her mind racing. It’s obvious what the Evo came for. But did he get it?

“The body?” Weller says.

“Gone,” Martinez says. “We’ve already called the police.

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