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Название: Scott Mariani 3 Book Bundle
Автор: Scott Mariani
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Приключения: прочее
isbn: 9780007527014
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The man went on. ‘If you want to see her alive again, you will listen to me carefully and follow my instructions’
‘What do you want?’ Ben asked.
‘We want you, Mr. Hope. You, and the manuscript’.
‘What makes you think I have it?’
‘We know what you got from the Manzini woman,’ the voice went on. ‘You will deliver it to us personally. You will meet us tonight at the Place du Peyrou in Montpellier. By the statue of Louis the Fourteenth. Eleven o’clock. You will come alone. We will be watching you. If we see any police, you will get Ryder back one piece at a time’.
‘I want proof of life,’ Ben demanded. As he listened, he heard a rustling sound of the phone being passed to someone. Roberta’s voice was suddenly in his ear. She sounded afraid. ‘…you, Ben? I…’ Then her voice was cut off abruptly as the phone was snatched away from her.
Ben was thinking fast. She was alive, and they wouldn’t kill her until they had what they wanted. That meant he could buy time.
‘I need forty-eight hours,’ he said.
There was a long pause. ‘Why? the voice demanded.
‘Because I don’t have the manuscript any more,’ Ben lied. ‘It’s hidden in the hotel.’
‘You will go there and retrieve it,’ the voice said. ‘You have twenty-four hours, or the woman dies’
Twenty-four hours. Ben thought about it for a moment. Whatever plan he might be able to come up with to get her out of there, he was going to need longer than that to put it into place. He’d negotiated many times with kidnappers and he knew how their minds worked. Sometimes they were inflexible in their demands and would execute a victim at the drop of a hat. But that was mostly when they knew they didn’t have much to gain, when the bargaining was breaking down or when it looked as though nobody was going to pay. If these guys wanted the manuscript badly enough and thought he was going to deliver it to them, it was a card he could play for all it was worth. He’d already got the guy backing down. He could push him a little more.
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