Face Value: A Wright & Tran Novel (Wright & Tran series Book 1) by Ian Andrew

Author:Ian Andrew [Andrew, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Book Reality Experience
Published: 2015-05-10T23:00:00+00:00

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At 22:30 Chaz came out of the en-suite bathroom and looked at the rest of them, “I’d love to see that Chinese delivery guy’s face if he knocked on the door now.”

Each of them might have had their own preferred makes or designs of equipment and clothing but it didn’t detract from their uniformity. They all wore black high-leg boots, black combat trousers, black T-shirts, black combat smocks and black gloves. Each was bedecked in two-tone camouflage cream on face and neck and the only slight difference was in the choice of either dark green or black rolled woollen caps perched on their heads. Each had a small day pack, similar in size to the ones Tien and Kara had used to transport the money, slung over their shoulders.

Sammi grinned, her white teeth showing menacingly from darkened face and lips, “I reckon we’d probably have got away without paying.”

Laughing, they began a series of buddy checks to make sure there were no rattles of tell-tale objects or glints from exposed metal. Tien had them check their digital radio systems that, given the openness of the countryside and proximity of their observation points, she had assured them would work much better than in the town earlier. But she had them take their phones as backup, just in case.

“You all sure they’re switched to vibrate?” Kara asked.

A series of nods confirmed.

“Okay, let’s go,” she said.

They switched the room light off and Tien slipped out the door into the dark courtyard. Between the food being delivered and getting changed, she and Kara had removed all the bulbs from the coach-light lanterns.

She stood still in the small porch and waited until she was sure the occupants of the other three rooms weren’t out and about. Then she moved along the edge of the wall that separated the motel annex from the neighbouring golf course entrance. Once satisfied that their path was clear she went back and gently tapped on the door. The rest filed out quickly and Dan slipped in front of Tien to lead them.

Although in a direct line they were only five hundred yards northeast of their target, on that line was the main east-west road, a collection of houses that constituted a small hamlet, an open stretch of ground and two small tributaries that fed into the Lea River. To get to the target house unseen and dry they would need to go in a much more circuitous route. So they started by following the trees at the edge of the golf course and headed northwest for four hundred yards. Then they swapped that cover for a high roadside hedge that swung southwest for three hundred yards before it merged into a small thicket. A hundred yards further and they had reached a point where they could double back to the south east and reconnect with their original line. With no houses in sight and no vehicles within earshot they quickly crossed the road with little chance of being observed. Another three hundred yards further and they regrouped at the edge of a line of trees.

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