The Vampire Chase by Stephen Mertz

Author:Stephen Mertz [Mertz, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641195386
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2018-11-27T23:00:00+00:00

10

The sign read: Sloan Gravel Company.

The area was bordered by a high chain-link fence. Beyond the fence the interior was bathed in the faint silver glow of a three-quarter moon. The hulking outlines of parked heavy-duty dump trucks took on a vaguely sinister air. The conical shapes of mini-mountains of gravel were like ghostly pyramids, pointing their tips at the clear dark sky. Two heavy padlocks held the front gates securely shut, supposedly without effort. He dropped to the opposite side with a muffled thump.

It was precisely nine o’clock.

Traffic was light on Route One-Sixty-Nine, just a few hundred yards behind him. Occasionally the full-throated roar of a semi rose above that of the cars. But those sounds, and the occasional hum of a jet overhead on its way to or from nearby Fairfax Mun Airport, were the only reminders to the lone man in the darkness that was surrounded by a metropolitan area. The light at the foot of those gravel pyramids was solitary, silent and uninviting.

Madison strolled forward along the dirt road which led on to run between the gravel heaps. His footsteps seemed to echo. He reached beneath his jacket and checked the looseness of the Magnum within his shoulder holster.

He wondered where Adamson was.

The alarm clock had brought him awake an hour earlier. He’d ducked under the shower again, only a fast reviver this time, and had quickly dressed and made his way out here in a hotel-furnished rental car.

The car was parked at the shoulder a half mile away. Madison had been early. He’d kept an eye on the front gate of the place for close to twenty minutes. A quick reconnoiter before stashing the car had ascertained that the front entrance was the only entrance. But no one had showed. So, Madison was the first one there unless they had been waiting since before dusk, and that didn’t seem likely. People who plan to kill people try to avoid the sunlight.

Madison had entered the grounds 99 percent certain that he was alone on them—but still cautious.

If this wasn’t a trap, he had a feeling that he knew what The Screaming Tree’s lead singer was so anxious to talk about.

When Madison had first asked Brocchi where the road manager had been after the night of the girl’s murder in Chicago, Brocchi had answered that he’d been out drinking with Adamson. Madison knew this was untrue, and he suspected that Adamson had asked Brocchi to alibi him. He’d have a damn good reason as he was spending the late-night hours with his band mate’s wife. Now that Mick was aware that Madison knew the truth of his whereabouts on the murder night, he’d naturally be afraid that Madison might tell Jeremy. He would be coming here tonight to talk Madison out of any such action.

Madison had a little polite blackmail in mind. He still wasn’t sure how deeply Brocchi was involved in setting him up for that girl’s murder in Chicago. Mick had been hanging around a

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