Rain of terror, p.28
Rain of Terror, page 28
“I’m not in a mission mood,” Remo said sourly.
“It is a minor mission. It will not take long.”
“Why don’t you go, then?”
“I cannot. I have a minor mission too.”
“Two missions?”
“Minor missions,” Chiun corrected.
“What are they?”
“Nothing of consequence. A skyjacking for you. Another skyjacking for me.”
“Two skyjackings? Coincidence?”
“Perhaps. But Smith has sent me to find you so that we may settle these trivial matters.”
“How many people at risk?”
“Hundreds.”
“Then I guess my problems can wait,” said Remo, heading for the trapdoor.
“If you call such trifles problems,” Chiun said, trailing after him. “Now, I have problems...”
When they reached the street, a prowl car was drawing up. Two uniformed police stepped out, and shielding their eyes against streetlamp shine, struggled to see the rooftop.
“Looking for the jumper?” Remo asked casually.
“Yeah, you see him?” the driving cop asked suddenly.
“Sure did. I just talked him down.”
“Any description?” the second cop wanted to know while the first one pulled out a pencil and pad of paper. “Let’s see now,” Remo said slowly. “I’d say he was about five-foot-five, weight one-eighty, age about twenty-seven, brown on brown, wearing jeans with a hole in the right knee. He had on a hooded peach sweatshirt and orange sneakers. He went up that street just a few minutes ago.”
“Thanks,” said the first cop as they both piled back into the car.
“If you find him,” Remo offered, “I’d stick him in the psycho ward if I were you. He kept ranting about jumping. Over and over. He sounded obsessed with the idea.”
“Don’t worry. He’s as good as caught,” said the driving cop. “That was a pretty sharp description, by the way. Ever consider a career in law enforcement?”
“Furthest thing from my mind,” Remo said as the car pulled out into the street, dragging loose newspapers after it.
Chiun looked up at Remo’s grinning face with undisguised puzzlement.
“You are wearing your mischievous face,” he said slowly.
“Not me,” Remo said pleasantly. “I’m just trying to prevent a disturbed citizen from going over the edge.”
About the Authors
WARREN MURPHY was born in Jersey City, where he worked in journalism and politics until launching the Destroyer series with Richard Sapir in 1971. A screenwriter (Lethal Weapon II, The Eiger Sanction) as well as a novelist, Murphy’s work has won a dozen national awards, including multiple Edgars and Shamuses. He has lectured at many colleges and universities, and is currently offering writing lessons at his website, warrenmurphy.com. A Korean War veteran, some of Murphy’s hobbies include golf, mathematics, opera, and investing. He has served on the board of the Mystery Writers of America, and has been a member of the Screenwriters Guild, the Private Eye Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and the American Crime Writers League. He has five children: Deirdre, Megan, Brian, Ardath, and Devin.
RICHARD BEN SAPIR was a New York native who worked as an editor and in public relations before creating the Destroyer series with Warren Murphy. Before his untimely death in 1987, Sapir had also penned a number of thriller and historical mainstream novels, best known of which were The Far Arena, Quest and The Body, the last of which was made into a film. The book review section of the New York Times called him “a brilliant professional.”
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Copyright
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Copyright © 2023 by Warren Murphy
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons—living or dead—events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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