What Money Can't Buy: A Twisting, Action-Packed Thriller (The Harry Miller Trilogy Book 1) by Joe Halliday

Author:Joe Halliday [Halliday, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

They waited in silence.

Anna sat on the sofa, the shattered remains of the phone at her feet. Harry stood out on the balcony with his hands on the low wall, staring down at the street below with unfocused eyes. Both of them avoided looking at Williams’ body.

After ten minutes the buzzer to the door sounded. Anna came to the balcony, and Harry nodded and followed her. They left the gun and the body in the apartment and found the corridor outside deserted. There was nobody outside the main door to the building either, but a spotless white van with tinted windows had pulled up by the entrance. Harry could see the outlines of two people in the front and guessed there were more in the back.

They turned right out of the building and started to walk. After they’d gone a hundred metres or so Harry heard the doors to the van opening then closing behind them. By the morning, Harry was sure that every trace of what had taken place in the apartment would be gone.

This outfit - the ‘Company’ - had shown impeccable efficiency at every point since they had taken him in Slovenia. It had a machine-like capacity to find and kidnap and kill whichever people it chose. Part of Harry automatically wondered what else this efficiency was applied to, at the levels far above those involving simple pawns like Anna, Williams, and himself. But a larger part hoped he would never need to know or care. The job was done now. Williams had been found, and Harry could leave.

A lone taxi approached along the quiet street. Harry went to hail it but Anna put a hand on his arm.

“Let’s just walk.”

They kept to the side streets this time, which snaked south and east parallel to the clogged, polluted Rama IV to the north. These streets were quieter. Metal shutters were pulled down over all the shops and almost every restaurant had closed. They passed newer, more modern low-rise apartment blocks which sat alongside older ones painted in bright colours which had long since faded. As ever the telephone cables snaked overhead, twisted together into a black mass beneath the grey-black, light-polluted sky. It seemed the cables were only ever added to and the older ones never removed. At least twenty of them must have run between the poles there, some pulled tight and some loose, and others tied up into thick bundles.

The streets they walked down were narrow and had no pavements. They went in single file to avoid the scooters and motorbike taxis and the occasional regular taxi too. Anna was in front, and didn’t look back. They didn’t talk as they walked, which suited Harry perfectly well.

They passed beneath a highway which sat low and loud over the houses below before crossing broad Rama IV shortly afterwards. They arrived at the hotel a couple of minutes later. It seemed like a long time since they had left, and everything felt different.

When they reached their room Harry took clean clothes from his suitcase and went straight to the bathroom.

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