Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin

Author:Kim Baldwin [Baldwin, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ! Yes
ISBN: 9781602820227
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2008-07-10T05:00:00+00:00

Lethal Affairs

time, where Hayley felt safe. And usually nowhere felt safer than home.

“Let’s go.”

Though Monty Pierce wanted to remain close to Operation Eclipse, other ongoing missions had necessitated that he return to the EOO’s Colorado headquarters. He’d taken the red-eye the night before and was badly sleep deprived, about to nod off in his offi ce chair when his cell phone rang. Automatically, he drew the blinds before answering.

He listened as details of Domino’s call about the license plate were relayed to him. “It came back as a private detective’s?” he repeated.

“All right. Let me know when they get back to Strike’s apartment.”

He had barely disconnected when his cell rang again. The display identifi ed the caller as the operative he’d assigned to Manny Vasquez.

The man had been positioned outside Manny’s apartment building for more than twenty-four hours, but an hour earlier had still seen no sign of the detective. Pierce had told him to start calling the morgue and area hospitals. “Yes?”

“Vasquez is dead,” the caller relayed. “Car accident, his fault, looks like he was drunk. Happened about ninety minutes after Strike left his place.”

Pierce replaced the phone in its cradle without replying. Dead?

He stared, unseeing, at the closed blinds, and found it hard to believe Vasquez’s death was a coincidence, drunk or no drunk. Vasquez must have had something of consequence. And that’s what Hayley was there looking for the next morning. She must have known he was dead. But how? And did she fi nd what she was looking for after Domino left?

Where was it now?

Once again, the question of who was behind it all worried him.

Did the same person who had sent Hayley the tape hire her tails? And had he also had Manuel Vasquez killed?

Pierce had a call made to Domino’s cell phone. The operative he chose to dial the number spoke only one word when the phone was answered—Domino—then disconnected. Domino’s callback would come to his secure line.

Things were heating up. He knew he’d likely be spending a lot of sleepless nights soon.

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