Game Changer
“He parked six blocks from the Waltham train station. He didn’t know if this ruse would work again, assuming it had worked when he had tried it in Trenton, but it was worth a shot.
He had a cab pick him up a mile from the station and drop him off several blocks away from the Thai restaurant at which he had intercepted Rachel. The stolen Ford Fusion was still in the lot. He drove to Rachel’s neighborhood and parked four blocks from her house, making his way toward it cautiously on foot, invisible... in the darkness, carrying the heavy gray rucksack with him.
Homes appeared only sporadically, the acres of distance between them the principal advantage of buying in a part of town that time had forgotten rather than buying a more modern tract home, larger but wedged together with others in tight bunches.
He had expected to see three or four police cars in front of Rachel’s home, blue and red lights carving up the night, but there were none. Her residence abutted a wooded hill on one side, leaving her only a single neighbor forty yards away, but he thought it likely the sound would have carried to at least a few other houses in the distance.MoreLess
He had a cab pick him up a mile from the station and drop him off several blocks away from the Thai restaurant at which he had intercepted Rachel. The stolen Ford Fusion was still in the lot. He drove to Rachel’s neighborhood and parked four blocks from her house, making his way toward it cautiously on foot, invisible... in the darkness, carrying the heavy gray rucksack with him.
Homes appeared only sporadically, the acres of distance between them the principal advantage of buying in a part of town that time had forgotten rather than buying a more modern tract home, larger but wedged together with others in tight bunches.
He had expected to see three or four police cars in front of Rachel’s home, blue and red lights carving up the night, but there were none. Her residence abutted a wooded hill on one side, leaving her only a single neighbor forty yards away, but he thought it likely the sound would have carried to at least a few other houses in the distance.MoreLess
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