Last Shot

437 Pages·2007·21.4 MB·English

by  Gregg Hurwitz

Gregg Hur witz
LAST SHOT
For Marjorie Hurwitz,
my mother
Contents
Chapter 1
The mood inside was nice and mellow until
Spook taped… 1
Chapter 2
Decked out in Spider-Man shoes, an empty belted
scabbard, Evel… 10
Chapter 3
Bear accelerated down the Harbor Freeway, his
overused Ram protesting… 13
Chapter 4
The guard at the console gave them a cordial nod… 17
Chapter 5
Unlike Sasso, who pivoted corners on the ball of his… 26
Chapter 6
Tim, Bear, and Newlin sat on frail rolling chairs in… 32
Chapter 7
The crow lurched from one foot to the other on… 38
Chapter 8
Bear crouched with his prodigious ass floating
above his heels… 40
Chapter 9
Fifth and Wall. The nucleus of a few blocks that… 42
Chapter 10
The rusting horizontal slats groaned their displeasure
as the metal… 45
Chapter 11
Even at 12:21 A.M., cars lurched past the
drive-through window… 48
Chapter 12
The run-down community within earshot of
freeway traffic showed off… 55
Chapter 13
Boston bounded past Tim over the porch, leapt
through the… 57
Chapter 14
Walker sat on the sagging couch watching the
dust filter… 62
Chapter 15
Dolan cracked his knuckles for the third time
that morning,… 72
Chapter 16
Maintaining a disciplined stillness at the head of
a preposterously… 79
Chapter 17
Tyler’s sturdy legs flexed as he tried to reverse his… 91
Chapter 18
Within the hour, when their stretches get stuck
in traffic,… 95
Chapter 19
There was no lock on the door, which made Walker… 101
Chapter 20
Multiple-voice yelling rose above the blaring
TV inside. Tim gave… 104
Chapter 21
A stray dog licked the necks of soda bottles in… 109
Chapter 22
The stumps of Marcel Deron’s arms waved
in circles as… 113
Chapter 23
Soiled with a fringe of water stain and an excessive… 119
Chapter 24
Tim flipped through the visitor log as he and Bear… 123
Chapter 25
This time, despite the broken latch, Walker
knocked on the… 126
Chapter 26
An attractive redhead sat behind a curved shield of a… 130
Chapter 27
I need to be clear on this matter: I’m going… 136
Chapter 28
Walker stepped down quietly into the model
home’s family room… 138
Chapter 29
The denim couch seemed to sink around Pierce
Jameson’s weight,… 141
Chapter 30
A ’72 Olds Cutlass Supreme held down the
VIP space… 144
Chapter 31
We’re past the twenty-four-hour mark.” Tannino
leaned into the squad… 150
Chapter 32
Wearing a light cotton Tommy Bahama camp
shirt against the… 158
Chapter 33
Kaitlin opened the door, smoothing down a
poof of bed… 162
Chapter 34
Lights killed, the oversize Bronco idled beneath
an overhang of… 171
Chapter 35
Tim crouched over the blown-wide mass of flesh
protruding from… 174
Chapter 36
Ortiz got off a solid blow, and
Kenny Shamrock’s nose… 184
Chapter 37
You’re not safe here.” Kaitlin followed Walker
down the hall,… 187
Chapter 38
The command post took shape as it usually
did, around… 192
Chapter 39
The churning of the roller bottles in combination
with the… 198
Chapter 40
I said no lime.” The paunchy gentleman
waved off the… 201
Chapter 41
Dean barely glanced up when Tim and Bear
entered. His… 204
Chapter 42
Tim screeched his Explorer around overburdened
gardener trucks clogging Wilshire’s… 212
Chapter 43
Sam ground a stick into the top of the anthill,… 220
Chapter 44
Kaitlin looked up from the pot on the stove and… 226
Chapter 45
Through the humid night air, Tim and Bear
could hear… 230
Chapter 46
At half past nine in the morning, the electricity kicked… 239
Chapter 47
A young security guard led Tim and Bear down the… 241
Chapter 48
The scent of brine, damp wood, and seaweed
brought Walker… 243
Chapter 49
Tim’s head throbbed from too much caffeine and
from squinting… 248
Chapter 50
There’s a pay phone on the northwest corner
of Baldwin… 251
Chapter 51
The pay phone rang, and Tim snatched it off the… 258
Chapter 52
Tim turned off the phone, sat on the garden bench,… 265
Chapter 53
A lingering party remained at a back table inside the… 274
Chapter 54
What were you thinking?” Dray set a plate down on… 278
Chapter 55
The ground stank of sewage, and the night canyon fog… 282
Chapter 56
Esteban Martinez, attorney-at-law. Tim, Bear, and
Dray sat on the… 292
Chapter 57
Walker flicked Tim’s gun to indicate the front
seat, sliding… 300
Chapter 58
The front rooms of the Kagan house, mood-lit for a… 305
Chapter 59
Other kids ran and squealed with after-school
exertion, but Sam… 311
Chapter 60
Tim nosed out from behind a moving van and floored… 314
Chapter 61
The house, when quiet, worried Tim. Tyler’s
squalling arrival on… 321
Chapter 62
Given the VIP handling, the carefully negotiated
seating, and the… 325
Chapter 63
The glass sculpture behind the podium webbed
instantly, thousands of… 329
Chapter 64
The Nextel felt hot against Tim’s cheek;
he realized he… 334
Chapter 65
Tim had called for backup, but there was no way… 338
Chapter 66
Before Tim could comprehend that the explosion
came in surround… 343
Chapter 67
Walker left the Accord two blocks away in an alley. 348
Chapter 68
Dolan had spent the last hour pacing laps around the… 351
Chapter 69
The lawn was overgrown. Not a noteworthy
observation elsewhere, but… 354
Chapter 70
Sam sprawled on the bed, mouth ajar, glasses
askew over… 360