The 45% Hangover [A Logan and Steel novella]. Stuart MacBride
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Название: The 45% Hangover [A Logan and Steel novella]
Автор: Stuart MacBride
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780008123277
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The 45% Hangover
Stuart MacBride
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Version: 2016-02-17
Contents
Read on for an extract from the new Logan McRae thriller
‘GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!’ The scream cut through the world like a rusty chainsaw.
It reverberated back from the walls, jerking Logan fully awake. Then making him wish he wasn’t. Something large and spiky was loose inside his head, scrabbling at the back of his eyes with long dirty claws. He screwed his eyes shut and lay there, till the echoes faded.
‘WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?’
He gritted his teeth and opened one eye. Then the other one. Wide. Then his mouth.
Oh dear Jesus, no …
They were lying in bed. No idea whose bed, but it was definitely a bed – metal framed, with a brass headboard. Floral-print duvet.
Him and Detective Chief Inspector Steel. In bed. Together.
Her hair was flat on one side, poking out in all directions on the other, her lined face pulled into a shape of utter disgust. Worse yet, it didn’t look as if she was wearing a top.
No, no, no, no …
One arm wouldn’t move, but he used the other one to grab the duvet and pull it up to his chin. ‘Why are we—’
‘IF YOU SO MUCH AS—’
‘STOP BLOODY SHOUTING!’ He screwed his eyes shut, teeth gritted. Every heartbeat made the spiky thing in his skull throb. ‘Please.’
‘I’ll СКАЧАТЬ