Down Into Darkness (2007)
Down Into Darkness
“He ran at the wall and leaped, getting a hand-hold, then levered himself up and over. The second yard was empty.
This’ll be it, he thought. One step behind until I finally lose him.
He made the next wall and dropped down, landing lightly, and was running through when he heard the silence. He snapped round, expecting to find Costea coming at him, but there was no one. Then he looked towards the far wall and saw the fire escape.
He topped the wall and swung round to get his feet on the metal rungs. It was a long way up. The roof was one of a terrace, and Harriman could see Costea two houses away. There were low walls between each house – low but too high to hurdle. He started to run, unsteady at that height, conscious of the street noise below and the sheer drops on each side. His foot snagged a cable, and the trip took him staggering towards the edge. He recovered and ran, keeping his eyes on his quarry, trying to blank what was in his peripheral vision: TV aerials, neon signs, the lan...ding lights of a plane as it banked, coming round towards Heathrow.MoreLess
This’ll be it, he thought. One step behind until I finally lose him.
He made the next wall and dropped down, landing lightly, and was running through when he heard the silence. He snapped round, expecting to find Costea coming at him, but there was no one. Then he looked towards the far wall and saw the fire escape.
He topped the wall and swung round to get his feet on the metal rungs. It was a long way up. The roof was one of a terrace, and Harriman could see Costea two houses away. There were low walls between each house – low but too high to hurdle. He started to run, unsteady at that height, conscious of the street noise below and the sheer drops on each side. His foot snagged a cable, and the trip took him staggering towards the edge. He recovered and ran, keeping his eyes on his quarry, trying to blank what was in his peripheral vision: TV aerials, neon signs, the lan...ding lights of a plane as it banked, coming round towards Heathrow.MoreLess
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