Victor 03 - The Game by Tom Wood

Author:Tom Wood [Wood, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: antique
Publisher: Hachette Digital
Published: 2013-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-SEVEN

Victor peered out of the restaurant to confirm that both remaining Georgians had gone in the Jeep and one wasn’t waiting behind to catch them as they came out – like he would have done. The street was empty. He saw the Jeep rounding a corner at the end of the block.

‘Drop the shotgun,’ Victor said.

Leeson did.

‘Take off your jacket.’

Leeson did, but his movements were slow and awkward. Victor helped pull it off him and threw it to the floor. Blood stained one sleeve and almost the entire back.

Victor turned him around on the spot to check the blood hadn’t soaked through to the white shirt. It hadn’t. Stains darkened the backs of his trouser legs, but would draw less attention than a man in his underpants.

‘Are those sirens?’ Leeson asked.

‘Yes. Time to move.’

Leeson swallowed. ‘You saved my life, Mr Kooi.’

‘Not yet.’

‘But they’ve gone. You said—’

‘And they know where we’re going.’

Leeson reached for the shotgun.

‘Leave it,’ Victor said.

‘If they’re waiting I’ll need it.’

‘If you take that shotgun out onto the streets you’re asking for the police to spot us. I take it you don’t want to be arrested?’

‘I don’t want to be killed either. I need a gun.’

‘Then you should have selected your sidearm with a little less thought to its appearance and a little more consideration to its usefulness.’

‘But—’

‘Do you want to continue this discussion at the farmhouse or in jail?’

Leeson didn’t answer, but he nodded.

‘It’s a two-minute walk to the right to get to the parking garage, but we can’t go direct. So we go left, and we walk quickly but we don’t run. Soon as we get to an intersection we take it and circle the block, walking like a couple of regular guys. No looking over your shoulder. No watching the road for the Jeep. We just walk.’

‘But the Georgians went left.’

‘And by now they’ll have already circled the same block and will be waiting for us in the parking garage. Until we get there our priority is not getting picked up by the police. No more questions. I’ve got you this far. Do as I say when I say it and I’ll get you the rest of the way. If you don’t like my methods you can try making your own way back.’

‘No, no. I’ll do what you say. I will. Sorry. Let’s go. Don’t leave me. Please.’

They went, turning left, hurrying along the pavement as the sound of sirens grew louder behind them.

‘Don’t look back,’ Victor said.

Leeson nodded.

They walked past the scatter of glass pebbles on the road surface where Victor had shot out the Jeep’s rear windscreen. Expended brass shell cases from the AK-74SU glinted. The wail of sirens intensified and Victor was aware of Leeson tensing next to him, but after Victor’s brief he managed to resist the compulsion to look back. Then tyres screeched and the sirens grew no louder.

Victor took the first turning that presented itself – a side street that cut through the block. Closed boutiques lined both sides of the twisting throughway.

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