Last Shot (2006) (57 page)
Authors: Gregg - Rackley 04 Hurwitz
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43 Sam ground a stick into the top of the anthill, leaving it protruding like
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44 Kaitlin looked up from the pot on the stove and started, dropping the woode
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45 Through the humid night air, Tim and Bear could hear the popping of ammo an
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46 At half past nine in the morning, the electricity kicked back on. The TV bl
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47 A young security guard led Tim and Bear down the shiny warehouse corridor.
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48 The scent of brine, damp wood, and seaweed brought Walker back to exotic po
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49 Tim's head throbbed from too much caffeine and from squinting at online dat
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50 There's a pay phone on the northwest corner of Baldwin and Huntington in Ar
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51 The pay phone rang, and Tim snatched it off the hook, hunching to the concr
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52 Tim turned off the phone, sat on the garden bench, and watched the fat, mot
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53 A lingering party remained at a back table inside the long-closed restauran
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54 What were you thinking? Dray set a plate down on the open file in front of
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55 The ground stank of sewage, and the night canyon fog wasn't helping any. To
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56 ESTEBAN MARTINEZ, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Tim, Bear, and Dray sat on the couch bac
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57 Walker flicked Tim's gun to indicate the front seat, sliding into the back
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58 The front rooms of the Kagan house, mood-lit for a somberness uncharacteris
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59 Other kids ran and squealed with after-school exertion, but Sam slumped in
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60 Tim nosed out from behind a moving van and floored it, ignoring Bear, who c
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61 The house, when quiet, worried Tim. Tyler's squalling arrival on the premis
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62 Given the VIP handling, the carefully negotiated seating, and the dramatica
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63 The glass sculpture behind the podium webbed instantly, thousands of cracks
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64 The Nextel felt hot against Tim's cheek; he realized he was pressing it har
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65 Tim had called for backup, but there was no way he and Bear were going to w
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66 Before Tim could comprehend that the explosion came in surround sound from
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67 Walker left the Accord two blocks away in an alley. Heat stabbed down his s
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68 Dolan had spent the last hour pacing laps around the pool table, his agitat
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69 The lawn was overgrown. Not a noteworthy observation elsewhere, but Tim had
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70 Sam sprawled on the bed, mouth ajar, glasses askew over closed eyes, his br
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71 Tim remained two strides into the dark apartment, gunfacing his shadowed do
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72 Seemingly relieved to be back in submissive charge, Edwin made Tim and Bear
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73 Morgenstein stepped out of the shower with a shaggy bath mat wrapped around
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74 I heard you got shot. Bear took a turn too hard, and Tim braced against t
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75 Freed fussed at a contraption that looked like something out of a science-f
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76 Timing his approach to dodge overlapping security patrols, Dolan arrived sh
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77 Using his left arm to cradle twenty or so vials of Xedral against his stoma
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78 Edwin answered the door, regarded the FBI team soberly, nodded, and withdre
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79 The desert scent of sage drifting through his open window, Tim cruised up P
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80 The alarm chimed at 2:00 A.M . Dray's complaint was unintelligible. Tim got
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