Lone Wolf #2 by Mike Barry

Author:Mike Barry [Barry, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781440542350
Publisher: Adams Media
Published: 1973-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

XI

Severo felt the nervousness hit him again. He had felt pretty good behind the two locked doors making his calls and better yet when he had called in the reinforcements. Now he had the place absolutely locked up tight. This clown Wulff had almost gotten through to him because Severo had not taken the proper precautions, but that was mere sloppiness. It would not happen again. Now he had the situation absolutely under control. There was a cordon of the finest, toughest men anyone could command ringing the place and if anyone even thought of penetrating those defenses he was out of his mind. This Wulff had knocked over a steel townhouse in Manhattan, that was the story on him anyhow, but just let him try it here. Just let him try it. They would take his grenades and his incendiary devices and give them back, all of them, right up his ass.

But the nervousness was there. It was a little roaring fire in his belly which was being stoked, gradually but incessantly by little scraps of information. First was the word that he had somehow broken out, with the girl no less, of the miserable rooming house where he had been holed up. Then impossibly, he had not only gotten away from the Mercedes, which had figured since he had obviously gotten back to the room, but he had knocked the car off the road and had killed two men. And then there was the growing knowledge—and this was the worst of all because it had been building up in the back of his mind from all the other pieces—that he had given Wulff the right data on the shipment tomorrow night. Time and place, chapter and verse.

That had been his mistake. He should have concocted something else for the guy just as he had concocted the whole story of running out on the business. But how was he to think, once he talked his way out of this spot, that Wulff would be able to get away? If the guy was gullible enough to have fallen for that piece of shit song and dance which Severo had made up for him, then he was surely so dumb that they should have been able to have taken him out with one shot in a matter of hours.

Yet there was the guy now out of contact and by all lights he might well show up tomorrow night.

What it came down to, Severo admitted sourly, pacing the grounds restlessly outside, was that he had cracked. Severo had cracked. Under stress, the pressure and tension and knowledge that he was in the toughest spot of his life and that this guy Burt Wulff could actually, genuinely kill him, he had failed to invent details but instead had blurted out the whole story. It gave little credit to him, that was all. Severo, who thought that he was impermeable and knew all the moves, had buckled under the knife.

If something went wrong tomorrow night there was going to be all hell to pay.

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