Countdown
Chapter One
Chapter One
Aberdeen, Scotland
Find the key.
The hotel room was dark but he didn’t dare turn on a light.
Leonard had told him that Trevor and Bartlett were usually in the restaurant for an hour, but he couldn’t count on it. Grozak had experience with that son of a bitch over the years and he knew Trevor’s instincts were still as keen as they had been when he was a mercenary in Colombia.
So he’d give himself ten minutes tops and get out of here. His penlight flashed around the room. As sterile and impersonal as most hotel rooms. Take the bureau drawers first. He moved quickly across to the bureau and started going through them.
Nothing.
He went to the closet and dragged out the duffel and searched through it hurriedly.
Nothing.
Five minutes to go.
He went to the bedside table and opened the drawer. A notepad and pen.
Find the key, the Achilles’ heel. Everyone had one.
Try the bathroom.
Nothing in the drawers.
The grooming kit.
Pay dirt!
Maybe.
Yes. At the bottom of the kit was a small, worn leather folder.
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