Today’s excerpt is from Pool
Of Blood, Book #3 of the Becker Trilogy. The assassin hired to kill Michelle gets a
warning about the sale of houses near his hideout. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
Newton was on
his way there because Hoyer had decided it was a good idea to let him know
about the sales. While he didn’t think
it had anything to do with Newton, he knew the man had picked that house to
spend most of his time at because of the lack of neighbors. Of the houses on the block, only the one next
door one was occupied—and it was occupied by an older couple. Their son often visited—in fact, it had been
his car that Bob had seen parked in front.
The son had parked in front because he planned to drive his mother to a
doctor’s appointment, and wanted to use his parent’s car to give it “some
exercise”, since they didn’t get out very often.
When the cell
phone used only for contact with Hoyer rang, Newton was surprised at the call,
but answered, “Hello—I was about to call you.
A try at her house won’t work.
They’ve got sensors all over the place.
So go ahead and get her court appearance schedule. I’ll have to make my try there—or set up
someplace on the road from the house to Wentzville.”
“I’ll get right
on it. In the meantime, the reason for
my call is to let you know it might be a good idea to change your base of
operations. My company that owned the
empty houses there has agreed to sell them.
The buyer is a clinic about fifteen minutes driving time away. They are doing something with bionic limbs
for former servicemen who lost them in combat.
They’re running out of housing for those rehabbing. Seems likely to be nothing more, but there
will be all kinds of people coming and going.
They will have former servicemen living there with their families until
their rehabs are done.”
“Thanks for
letting me know. I’ll move right
away. Wanted to spend some time at the
house with my shooting platform, to make sure everything is working anyhow. Want to drive it around some, to make sure
it’s up-to-speed mechanical wise.”
“I think you
moving is a good idea. I’ll get on
getting her schedule right now. Get back
to you when I have something. Probably
be Monday or Tuesday before I get the information.”
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