Surrounded (Tucker Series, Book 2)
Dean Koontz
Language: English
Pages: 92
ISBN: 0672518597
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
SURROUNDED is an early crime novel by Koontz, written in 1974 under the name Brian Coffey. It features the character of Mike Tucker, a rare arts dealer who moonlights as a professional thief to support his luxurious lifestyle. In SURROUNDED, Tucker gets involved in a bank robbery in an indoor mall in Los Angeles. Something goes wrong, and he ends up being surrounded by the police. How does Tucker escape the mall without the police noticing? Koontz comes up with a clever solution in this entertaining crime caper.
her she'd be making a fool of herself. But you know something? When she comes home from the lessons and shows me what she's learned, she gets me so excited I'm like a honeymooning bridegroom again." His own chuckle complemented Tucker's laugh. "But this isn't what you called about. You got my letter?" "An hour ago," Tucker said. The letter had been in the morning's mail at Tucker's midtown Manhattan post-office box: a white envelope with no return address. He knew it was from Clitus before he
tall, slender, composed of sharp angles. His face was long and thin, with a fresh but slightly milky complexion. Arrow-straight, his nose was slightly flared around the nostrils, as if he were constantly sniffing some odor that offended him. His colorless lips were taut bow lines. He was clearly well bred, from a background of wealth and position, although he had none of the charm and personal easiness that most often accompanied the strong self-confidence of the aristocrat. Indeed, he was quite
petting his Skorpion with one hand as if it were alive. "A year after it happened, I came back out here and rented an apartment. Then I started hunting Keski. I found out that he'd gone straight, just like he'd wanted to do. He'd bought the majority stock in this mall, owned motels and restaurants up and down the coast, a dozen other things. I followed him to his office here in the mall every day for two months, looking for an opening. But he was packing two bodyguards then." "He never saw you?"
boxed themselves up in order to pass themselves off as merchandise. While Peterson's group was worriedly, frantically darting around in the east end, Officer Haggard and two other men explored the stores along the north corridor. Their greatest challenge was Markwood and Jame, one of the mall's two largest stores, for it was filled with counters and design partitions that provided thousands of possible hiding places; in fact, Haggard's men became so paranoid midway through the search of Markwood
the pool and tried to think about Elise and about all they had done and would do together. Staring at the shimmering green-blue water in front of him, he attempted to picture the Edo shield and spear, several other more minor treasures that he possessed But he could not make himself feel better. His eyes continually drifted to the trails of fat bubbles rising from Meyers and Bates, then followed the bubbles to the shimmering, foaming surface 3:40. 3:50. 4:00. He worried. There