Nightshade Revenge by Anthony Horowitz EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Anthony Horowitz
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THE INVISIBLE BULLET
The three-headed dog was sitting on the corner of Times Square in
the middle of New York.
As he climbed out of the subway and caught his breath, Steven
Chan got the sense that the dog was searching for him. It would
have the advantage, of course. With its twisting necks and its six
smouldering red eyes, it could look in three directions at once. Had it
actually seen him? The dog was built like a Dobermann but it was
several times larger, looming over the traffic that was snarled up in
the surrounding streets, the swarms of yellow cabs all blaring their
horns as if that would actually help them find a way through the
tangled knot of cars, delivery vans and open-top tourist buses.
It was a bitterly cold February evening. Although it was only five
o’clock, the sky was already slate grey. The neon advertisements all
around the square seemed to be fighting with each other: NBC,
Pepsi, Levi’s, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera. Clouds of
steam and smoke were rising into the air, spilling out of the various
braziers cooking hot dogs, burgers and candied nuts, or billowing
through the manholes, escaping from the miles of service pipes
below the pavements.
Steven Chan tightened the hood of his silver-grey puffer jacket
and hurried along Seventh Avenue, trying to lose himself in the
crowd. He was in his twenties, Asian American, with a round face,
black hair and haunted eyes. He was in danger and he knew it. Had
he really allowed himself to fly almost three thousand miles, from
West Coast to East Coast, simply to walk into a trap? For that
was what New York had become. The whole city. And he was
already wondering how he was going to get out alive.
He should have known better.
Chan wasn’t exactly a private detective. His friends would have
laughed if he’d called himself that. But he was most certainly an
investigator, working in the closely related fields of computer fraud,
identity theft and industrial espionage. His job had often brought him
up against people who were as wealthy and powerful as they were
dangerous, and he knew how to look after himself. After all, he had
worked for three years as a field agent with the CIA. Trained in the
use of firearms, he had a licence to carry the SIG Sauer P226 pistol,
which was his weapon of choice. Right now he wished he had
brought it with him. He would have liked to have felt the weight of it,
tucked into his waistband. But it was too late now. He had to find a
way out. He had to get home.
He glanced back. The dog was still there. One of its three mouths
was hanging open, revealing a drooling tongue and impossibly sharp
teeth. The crowds of pedestrians were passing by on either side.
Nobody else seemed to have noticed it.
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