The Free Lunch (2015)
“After a disastrous start, the day was improving. Things were working out, if anything, even better than he had planned. So much so that he decided he could afford the luxury of improvising a little. The bogus Trolls were exactly where he’d guessed they must be: in the Employees’ Lounge, mingling with the forty or fifty other genuine workers fortunate or industrious enough to have completed their shutdown responsibilities early. Or rather, the Trolls were not mingling: again, just as he’d guesse...d they would be, they were pretending to play cards for matches—the most plausible way to keep to themselves for half an hour or so, until the exodus to the parking lot began.
The interesting part was, there were only four of them tonight.
Conway had been planning simply to keep them under covert but close observation here, and then have his men take them on their way out—as many of them as he could get without raising a disturbance. If they’d been the usual half dozen, the same as the previous days, he would have done just that: kept an eye on them and kept his distance until they left, then followed them out and fingered them for his men.MoreLess
The interesting part was, there were only four of them tonight.
Conway had been planning simply to keep them under covert but close observation here, and then have his men take them on their way out—as many of them as he could get without raising a disturbance. If they’d been the usual half dozen, the same as the previous days, he would have done just that: kept an eye on them and kept his distance until they left, then followed them out and fingered them for his men.MoreLess
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