The Body of David Hayes by Ridley Pearson

Author:Ridley Pearson [Pearson, Ridley]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 978-1-4013-9951-1
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2004-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

Discovering himself the target of a surveillance operation left Boldt with mixed feelings. He couldn’t remember ever having been on the receiving end of such attentions, and he found it off-putting. The arrangements were made hastily, primarily because of the time restrictions imposed by his anonymous caller, but the brilliance of some of these guys never ceased to amaze him, and by the time he bumped the Crown Vic into the restricted parking garage attached to the Public Safety Building, the operation was already well under way.

Suspecting, but not quite willing to believe, that whoever had called him might have civilians paid off within the department—spies—he obeyed Pahwan Riz’s choreography to the letter. The Crown Vic was already equipped with GPS transmission equipment because, like patrol cruisers, it carried a Mobile Data Terminal on the dash—the equivalent of a built-in laptop computer that allowed text to be sent to and from the car. Limousine services and some taxis, parcel delivery and express delivery vans, all carried similar equipment—and all contained the satellite tracking device allowing dispatchers to locate any vehicle at a moment’s notice.

The trick was to get some of this same equipment—a small GPS and a voice-recording device—onto Boldt without him being descended upon by technicians. Riz’s solution was to leave the equipment in a men’s room stall, and to direct Boldt to visit the rest room upon his arrival at SPD, which he did. From the bathroom, now wearing the two devices, he proceeded directly to Property and signed out for the bright red disk that had been in the possession of Tony LaRossa as he’d collapsed from his heart attack. He took the man’s bank ID access card as well, already foreseeing its future use. With Boldt being lieutenant in charge of Crimes Against Persons, there wasn’t anything the Property sergeant was going to deny him. He signed the requisite forms, accepted the plastic bags bearing the chain of possession, all carefully detailed in indelible marker, and returned to the Crown Vic at a slow jog, moving a few uniformed officers out of his way while checking his watch on the fly. Ten minutes in which to reach the exit of I-5 north.

Whoever had planned this for him had timed it to within seconds. He knew immediately that the drop was to be just as perfectly timed, that he would be pushed right to the limit to accommodate the demands.

As it was, he hit the street with the pedal down, built-in grill and window lights pulsing the blinding blue light, clearing traffic.

Eight minutes to go. It would be a miracle, but he just might make it.

Several miles above him, in the cold black void of space, satellites tracked his every turn, and Pahwan Riz—in the steam-cleaning van, with a team of four unmarked vehicles—followed at a distance, never letting Boldt out of his sight.

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