The Tube Riders: In the Shadow of London by Chris Ward

Author:Chris Ward [Ward, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AMMFA Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Hunters

Lindon’s rage was a like a racing car revving at a starting light as he stared at the back of the girl walking down the dank corridor in front of him. All it would take was one wrong word and the destruction would begin. A gun was holstered under his shirt, but he wouldn’t need it. If she was to be believed, then Spacewell was dead. That couldn’t be forgiven. Someone, sometime, had to pay.

‘The open door,’ he said, shining the light ahead of her so that she could see. ‘That’s yours.’

‘What is this place? It’s like a prison.’

‘Spacewell requested a safe house. It’s as safe as the Tank can provide.’

‘Where are we?’

Her confusion was understandable. He had blindfolded her for the drive across London on Tim Cold’s orders, not that there was much point. Either she would work for them and be trusted or she would die.

‘This used to be a correctional facility for people with brain disorders. A nuthouse. Now it’s Tank property.’

The girl reached the door and stopped. Lindon came up behind her and shone a light inside. The cold stone walls were uninviting, but a pile of blankets provided a bed. There was a barred window that gave a view out only onto a wall of other barred windows in an inner courtyard, but it would provide her with natural light.

‘There are three rooms. You’ve got a bed and blankets, and a bucket for a toilet you should empty out of the window. There’s a gas powered heater and a few packets of dried food and bottled water. You’ll be locked in for your own good. Someone will return for you tomorrow.’

The girl looked up at him. ‘My name’s Mika,’ she said. ‘Do you have a name?’

Lindon stared at her. ‘If you’re of no use to us, I’ll personally put you out of your misery.’

She matched his gaze. ‘You don’t scare me,’ she said.

His hand snaked up around her neck and pinned her back against the wall. ‘Spacewell was my friend,’ he said through gritted teeth. ‘If he died for you it had better be worth it.’

‘Put me in my cage,’ she whispered. ‘You think you’re a tough guy. You don’t know what tough is.’

Lindon held her a moment longer, then let go. Mika glared at him, then went into the room. As Lindon closed the heavy steel door and locked it, a metal grill slid open and her face appeared in the gloom just inches from his.

‘I’m sorry about Rick,’ she said. ‘He was a good friend.’

‘Fuck yourself.’

Lindon stalked off before she could reply. The long corridors of the old containment centre seemed endless around him, forever shifting. Spacewell, that crackpot goon. Lindon had never expected to miss him.

He left the key with the two guards the Tank kept on duty in a dusty room on the ground floor. The girl wasn’t alone in the apartments in the old mental hospital; there were others that had been hiding out for years. Kept under the Tank’s

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