The Big Bad Wolf
Chapter One
THE PHIPPS PLAZA shopping mall in Atlanta was a showy montage of
pink-granite floors, sweeping bronze-trimmed staircases, gilded
Napoleonic design, lighting that sparkled like halogen spotlights. A
man and a woman watched the target - "Mom" - as she left Niketown
with sneakers and whatnot for her three daughters packed under one
arm.
"She is very pretty. I see why the Wolf likes her. She reminds me of
Claudia Schiffer," said the male observer. "You see the
resemblance?"
"Everybody reminds you of Claudia Schiffer, Slava. Don't lose her.
Don't lose your pretty little Claudia or the Wolf will have you for
breakfast."
The abduction team, the Couple, was dressed expensively, and that
made it easy for them to blend in at Phipps Plaza, in the Buckhead
section of Atlanta. At eleven in the morning, Phipps wasn't very
crowded, and that could be a problem.
It helped that their target was rushing about in a world of her own,
a tight little cocoon of mindless activity, buzzing in and out of
Gucci, Caswell-Massey, Niketown, then Gapkids and Parisian (to see
her personal shopper, Gina), without paying the slightest at ... read full excerpt from The Big Bad Wolf ebook
