Lynx (Will Slater #4) by Matt Rogers

Author:Matt Rogers [Rogers, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1726715132
Amazon: B07HWPNQJW
Published: 2018-10-09T11:00:00+00:00

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It was nothing exciting. At least, as far as his relative experience was concerned. A quiet residential suburb on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Wide yards, old houses, old money. Plenty of room for kids to run around.

Ruby had called it a decent suburb, and she hadn’t been lying.

Slater could imagine himself growing up here. Maybe that would have provided him with some semblance of an ordinary childhood. His reality had been far different from that. But he had enough experience to know it was usually the nicest looking homes that were the most broken. He could understand how a hard ex-military man might clash with his daughter on a frequent basis. No abuse, like she’d said, but enough constant conflict to breed resentment.

And if there was one thing about ex-military, it was that they didn’t quit.

Maybe just an ordinary troubled childhood exacerbated by two different personality types. Arguments form habits, which form the entirety of daily life. They probably hated each other by the time she left.

Slater wondered how Frank Nazarian felt about it all now.

Maybe that was why he’d come here. If pressed, he wouldn’t have been able to come up with a reason. Not one that made sense. But in discussion with Ruby, he’d sensed aspects of her father that mirrored Slater’s own behaviour. He wanted to know more about the man who raised a government killer. One of the best on the planet, unless she’d been lying about that, but Slater didn’t think so.

It wasn’t something you boasted about unless you were supremely confident of the truth.

And he figured New York was the place to start on the quest to contact Williams. He probably wouldn’t find it through Nazarian if Ruby had been telling the truth. It seemed like the pair had been out of contact for years, if not a decade. Nazarian likely didn’t know it was Williams who took her daughter into the shadowy government underworld and never brought her back.

But it was as good a place to start as any.

And he figured he could find out more about the man who might have put a nine-year-old girl into a school for assassins.

From an old colleague.

Slater found the house he was looking for. One-storey, neat, squared away from the rest of the street. Nothing special about it, but a good home. A perfectly maintained lawn — the grass was cut short and radiated in colour. A bright, brilliant green. No doubt the handiwork of Nazarian. Ex-military. Meticulous in his neatness.

Old habits die hard.

The S-Class Coupé whispered to a halt on the other side of the avenue, and Slater killed the engine. He sat there with his hands on his thighs, back straight, staring at the dwelling. Unsure if he should follow through with it or not. He might be disrupting the equilibrium. A strange violent nomad wandering into a place he didn’t belong. In all likelihood there was nothing for him here.

In fact, he was almost certain.

But he was ex-military of a different kind. He had habits that wouldn’t go away quickly.

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