Three-Edged Sword: A Novel (A Riley Wolfe Novel, Band 3) - Hardcover

Buch 3 von 4: Riley Wolfe

Lindsay, Jeff

 
9780593186220: Three-Edged Sword: A Novel (A Riley Wolfe Novel, Band 3)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0593186222 ISBN 13: 9780593186220
Verlag: Dutton, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel.

“A super-thief who leaves no trace.”—Andy Garcia

“An anti-hero for our times.”—Sarah Dunn

“A can't-miss master.”—David Baldacci

Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips.

ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES.

It’s not just that the high-up, rogue government agent has abducted the only two people Riley loves: it’s the fact that Riley has to do the man’s dirty work to set them free. It’s something Riley ordinarily would find a modest day’s work, infiltrating a madman’s Soviet missile silo in one of the world’s most remote places, all to find a secret on a tiny flash drive—but he’s never had to race the clock like this.

SOMETIMES TRUTH CAN BE A THREE-EDGED SWORD.

From its vivid, remote locales to its John Wick-meets-Deadpool dialogue, this gripping heist novel from Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter series, is everything: an utterly escapist, must-read novel of espionage, thievery, love and betrayal. It twists, it turns, and keeps everything on the line until the very end. Even for Riley, it looks like this time, the only way out is through.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jeff Lindsay is the New York Times bestselling author of the Dexter novels, which debuted in 2004 with Darkly Dreaming Dexter. They are the basis of the hit Showtime and CBS series Dexter. He lives in South Florida with his family.

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1

Amahle Khumalo hurried through the hallway of the exclusive, private, very expensive extended-care facility where she worked as a nurse. She was in a near panic because she could not find her phone, and like any modern woman, she felt lost without it. It was a small nursing home, and she was being paid very, very well to look after only one patient. The extra money was badly needed, so she was extremely diligent. She stayed close to her patient, leaving only to go to the lunchroom, the lounge, or on small errands like getting supplies from storage.

So there were only a few places Amahle might have left her phone. She had checked the nurses' lounge, a room where she spent her time between checkups, since her patient was stable and nonresponsive. The phone was not there.

She was now quite sure she must have left her phone in her patient's room. She had been working on a crossword puzzle on the phone when she went into the room on her last check. No doubt she had put it down on the little bedside table by the window in order to check vital signs and record them on the chart. And then her friend Lesedi stuck her head through the door and asked for her help with Mr. Van der Merwe, who had dementia and had wandered off again.

Amahle had rushed out to help, and Mr. Van der Merwe had been surprisingly elusive for an old man. By the time they had him back in his room and calmed down, it was time for lunch, which she and Lesedi spent talking as they ate. And so it had been nearly two hours until she noticed that her phone was missing. If she had left it there on the little table by the window . . .

In two hours, the sun had moved across the sky, of course-just enough so that the light would be pouring through the window of her patient's room. And it would be shining its intense heat and light on that small table by the window. If she had really left her phone there, it would be in direct sunlight. That South African sunlight was hot; hot enough that if you left a metal object in its light for too long, it would burn your fingers when you picked it up. If you left electronic devices in that kind of heat, it could be fatal to the circuits.

As she raced into the room, the sun was pouring in through the curtained window as if it had been released from a large dam. It was relentlessly bright, and it lit up the entire room like a searchlight. The window was closed, of course, and there was a soft flow of air-conditioned air blowing through, but even so, Amahle could feel the heat.

The phone was there, on the table by the window, in the full glare of the sunlight. Amahle crossed the room quickly and picked up her phone-and swore as it burned her fingers. She hurriedly wrapped it in the hem of her scrub shirt, a pale lavender today. She juggled it clumsily for a moment, found a secure grip that was not too hot to hold, and breathlessly touched the screen.

It lit up, showing the picture of her nephew, Gabriel. The phone was not broken. "Thank you, Jesus!" she said.

". . . What . . . ?"

The voice that came from behind her was a terrible dry croak, almost inaudible, but it froze Amahle where she stood, because it came from a place where no voice could have been.

Her comatose patient.

The patient who was nonresponsive, and had been for several months.

Amahle turned. The attractive young woman in the bed looked at her with wide-open eyes. She was awake.

Immediately, amazement faded and a nurse's calm sense of purpose took over. Amahle dropped the phone into the pocket of her scrubs and stepped to the patient's bedside.

". . . What-where, what?" the woman whispered.

"Hush, dear, don't try to speak," Amahle said as she hurriedly checked the woman's vital signs. Blood pressure good; heartbeat steady-a little elevated at ninety beats per minute, but that was to be expected of someone waking up in a strange room with no idea how they'd gotten there. "You are in hospital," Amahle said. "A private hospital-a very good private hospital."

"But, but . . . Ha-how, how . . . where?" the patient repeated in an insistent croak.

"Cape Town, of course," Amahle said. She turned from the bed and reached for the call button. "Now be quiet and lay still, dear, while I call Doctor."

"But . . ."

"I said lay still," Amahle said with the stern authority all nurses develop. And then, relenting slightly, she gave the woman a tender smile. "Don't worry your head, dear," she said. "You are going to be just fine."

Amahle patted the woman's hand reassuringly. Then she left the room to tell Dr. Sipoyo the news. But she did not go directly to find the doctor. Instead, she paused at the door to a supply closet. She looked carefully around to make sure no one was looking. Then she stepped inside the closet and closed the door.

Amahle took out her phone. It was still very warm, but it was usable. She flipped to her Contacts page and called a number there. It rang three times. Then a mechanical-sounding voice said, "Yes."

Amahle was not sure why, but she was a little frightened. But the extra money was enough to make a very large difference, and she had already decided to do this. So she took a breath and did it.

"She's awake," she said.

There was a pause on the other end, then the same flat, metallic voice said, "Good," and the connection broke.

Feeling slightly dizzy, Amahle put her phone away. She tried to swallow and found that her mouth and throat were almost too dry. But it was done.

Amahle took another, deeper breath and slipped out of the closet to find Dr. Sipoyo.

2

It was not a pleasure for me, of course. Not at all.

It was a setup from the very start. How had they known I'd come here, to Keresemose? Simple. They knew I had been in South Africa for a while, just sitting around and waiting and probably getting bored. It was an easy guess that eventually I'd want to find something to do, and with me that meant just one thing: stealing something. And in South Africa, where would a bored thief go? A diamond mine, of course. So they put out the word about the upcoming showing to make sure it was this diamond mine. And I had walked right into their trap.

When you look at how it turned out, it seems stupid. But the thing that made me the best ever is doing impossible things, and there's a really thin line between impossible and stupid. So if I cross the line into pure stupid now and then-well, shit. I usually make it back, and with the score, too.

This time, though, it wasn't really about the score. I was just bored. And mixed in with the boredom was enough real anxiety to turn that boredom into the kind that makes you jumpy. Like, you're on edge all the time even though you know there's no good reason and nothing you can do about it, and the only smart thing you can do is to find a good book and just sit there and read it. And what you really want to do is light your hair on fire and run screaming into the night.

I had good reasons, for both the boredom and the worry. I'd been sitting in South Africa for six weeks, waiting for Monique to come out of her coma. She hadn't so far, and the doctors were not being really encouraging. And Monique-she is one of the only two people in the world I really give a crap about. I almost trust Monique, which is as near to it as I can get. I trust her enough to work with her, and that's hard, because trust makes you vulnerable. She's never betrayed me, though. And I don't want to work with anybody else, because she is hands down the best art forger in the world. She can make a copy of absolutely anything. Nobody else comes close.

And I like her. I mean, we aren't in love or anything. We had one night, celebrating a great heist we did together, when we got ripped and jumped in the sack, and it was...

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Verlag
Dutton
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0593186222
ISBN 13 
9780593186220
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Anzahl der Seiten
384
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