Never Back Down by Solomon Carter

Author:Solomon Carter [Carter, Solomon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great Leap
Published: 2014-09-25T04:00:00+00:00

Eight

Parker insisted Jess could not go with them, but Jess pleaded and Eva backed her pleas immediately. There were obvious reasons to take her on Parker’s mission to Gillespie’s business address, and beyond providing back up, Jess had a sharp brain and might see Parker’s next moves coming their way. Parker was interested in one of Gillespie’s building firms. The outfit worked on house builds and offices, where rumours circled about a scam involving Gillespie with two corrupt Councillors receiving a kickback for persuading the planning office to have some restricted Greenfield reclassified as ‘Brownfield’ and suitable for development – by Gillespie of course. As far as Eva was concerned, it was clearly highly unethical, a swindle which was going to cost the residents of Wakering (a district on the northern outskirts of Southend) their remaining country views and access to green spaces. But then again, what was new about that? Compared with Dan’s situation, it was like comparing a parking penalty with a plane hijack. If it wasn’t clear by now, it was certainly getting clearer where Devon Parker’s priority lay. It was in destroying Gillespie, staying close enough to hurt him big, yet far enough to stay out of the brutal gangster’s deadly snare. It was repugnant too, because each time Jess questioned the relevance of Parker’s detours from saving Dan Bradley, Eva would watch Parker momentarily rack his brain for a suitable excuse, and hand over some rambling reason like it all made sense. And some of it did, just about.

It was the afternoon of day two. Dan had a day and a third of his crucial first 72 hours missing left. Eva was worried. Parker had wasted their time all the way through. Even Jess looked stressed and frustrated. But Eva hadn’t had the chance to tell Jess what she was planning. She wasn’t sure exactly what it was yet, but she knew the goal – to blow Parker so wide open the whole fiasco would be exposed and the fat lying monkey would be off her back. They were currently waiting in the back of his Vauxhall Calibra – always in that bloody old Calibra - sitting outside the dated office building of Gillespie McAnnion, the construction firm about to be granted planning permission to build flats, budget homes and townhouses all over the only green space left just beyond Southend. The firm was set to make a killing when the build came off, so no matter how much it cost to grease the palms of local Councillors Townsend and Maher, it was going to be well worth the outlay.

The home of Gillespie McAnnion was a nineties construction, red brick with dirt smeared beige plastic façades between each one. Like Fenbrook Manor, there were cheap classical pretensions, but here these were done so perfunctorily they were mocked by cheap bricks and plastic that embarrassed the name of the firm above the wide front doors. The building was on one side of the perpetually busy A127

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