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A head-and-shoulders picture of Milton flashed onto the screen. He recognised it: the picture had been taken from his Group file. Control was behaving exactly as he knew that he would. He would organise a manhunt, co-opting all the other agencies: the intelligence service, the police, everyone. His picture remained on the screen as the report continued. Milton looked around at the other customers anxiously. No-one was paying the television much attention but he replaced the cap on his head regardless.

He took his coffee with him and went back out into the hot night. The steady hum of the motorway was loud, the stand of trees that had been planted at the edge of the car park doing little to dampen the noise. Milton ignored the BMW. It had served him well, but he knew that it would have been reported by now. He found a spot that was poorly served by CCTV and approached a Ford Mondeo. He forced the door, slid inside and hotwired the engine.

The digital clock on the dashboard showed a little after three in the morning as he rejoined the motorway heading north. He passed through the gears, making sure to stay below the speed limit. In an hour and a half, the lights of Liverpool sparkled in the distance. Milton turned off the motorway and drove into town.

 

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

Mark Dawson works in the film industry. He lives in Wiltshire.

 

 

ALSO BY MARK DAWSON

 

 

The Art of Falling Apart

Subpoena Colada

 

In the Soho Noir Series

The Black Mile

The Imposter

 

In the John Milton Series

One Thousand Yards

The Cleaner

 

 

DEDICATION

 

 

To Mrs D and FD.

 

 

COPYRIGHT

 

 

A BLACK DOG PUBLISHING ebook.

First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Black Dog

Ebook first published in 2013 by Black Dog

This ebook published in 2013 by Black Dog

Copyright © Mark Dawson 2013

Formatting by Polgarus Studio

 

The moral right of Mark Dawson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor to be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

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EPILOGUE

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IF YOU ENJOYED THIS BOOK…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY MARK DAWSON

DEDICATION

COPYRIGHT

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