The Race (with Justin Scott) by Clive Cussler
Author:Clive Cussler [Cussler, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781101547007
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Penguin Group
Published: 2011-01-01T05:00:00+00:00
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WITH FOUR YEARS of college boxing and ten years as a Van Dorn agent, including an investigation in the Arizona Territory disguised as an itinerant prizefighter, and another as a lumberjack, Isaac Bell reacted by rolling with the punch.
Memory speeded up, as if whirled in a turbine. He recalled events too fast to register as they had occurred. In memory, he could see Frostâs fist swinging at him. He could see that he had been caught flat-footed. If he went down at Frostâs feet, he was a dead man. His only chance to live was to make absolutely sure that Frost couldnât follow up with another blow.
Harry Frost had obliged Bell by knocking him backwards into the Hudson River.
The current was swift, tide and river speeding toward the sea.
Isaac Bell was barely conscious, with an aching jaw and a throbbing head.
He saw Frost scrambling along the narrow shelf of mud that the falling tide had exposed on the shore under the piers. Dodging the pilings that marched from the land into the river, Frost tried to keep up with the current. He scampered like a dog wanting to jump in the water after a ball but afraid of drowning.
The current slammed Bell against pilings in the water. Bell seized hold of one. Less than fifteen feet separated the detective and the murderer. âFrost,â he shouted, gripping the slimy wood, fighting the current. âGive it up!â
To Bellâs surprise, Harry Frost laughed.
Bell had expected howling curses. Instead, the murderer was laughing. Nor was it insane laughter. He sounded almost cheerful when he said, âGo to hell.â
âItâs over,â Bell shouted. âYou canât get away from us.â
Frost laughed again. âYou wonât get me before I get Josephine.â
âKilling your poor wife wonât do you any good, Harry. Give it up.â
Frost stopped laughing. âPoor wife?â His bloodied face worked convulsively. âPoor wife?â He raised his voice in an angry cry: âYou donât know what they were up to!â
âWho? What do you mean?â
Frost stared at him across the rushing tide. âYou donât know nothing,â he said bitterly. He shrugged his massive shoulders. An odd smile flickered across his mouth before his expression hardened like a death mask. âSay, look it this.â
Harry Frost bent down and pawed in the mud. He straightened up, holding Bellâs Browning.
âYou dropped this when you ran away by jumpinâ in the water. Here you go!â He flung the pistol in Bellâs face.
Bell caught it on the fly. He juggled the muddy grip into his palm and flicked off the safety. âElevate! Hands up!â
Harry Frost turned his back on the detective, clinging to the piling in the water, and stalked upstream against the flow of the tide.
âHands up!â
âIâm not afraid of you,â Frost called over his shoulder, taunting. âYou are nothing. You couldnât even take one punch. You ran away.â
âStop right there.â
âIf you didnât have the belly to take another punch, you sure as hell donât have the nerve to shoot me in the back.â
Bell aimed for Harry Frostâs legs, intending to slow the man, climb out of the water, and get him.
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