Falling: eShort

CHRIS MOONEY

Falling

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Falling

Chris Mooney is the internationally bestselling author of the Darby McCormick series and the stand-alone thriller Remembering Sarah, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Darby McCormick series have sold in over twenty territories. The Killing House is the first book featuring former profiler and now the nation’s Most Wanted fugitive, Malcolm Fletcher. Mooney lives in Boston, where he is at work on the next Darby McCormick thriller.

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The Killing House

The Soul Collectors

The Dead Room

The Secret Friend

The Missing

Remembering Sarah

The airport was busy and hot. Marlena had to walk fast to keep up.

‘The transmitter is very small, less than half the size of a pencil eraser,’ Special Agent Owen Lee said. He had the slender build of a swimmer and talked with a slight lisp. ‘Your job is to plant the transmitter and walk away, and then you’re off enjoying a few days of R&R here in the Caymans, courtesy of the federal government.’

‘I still don’t understand why you specifically requested me,’ Marlena said. It was a valid question. She was a lab rat. Her expertise was in forensics, not surveillance.

‘May I be frank, Miss Sanchez?’

‘Please.’

‘I requested a young, confident woman, someone who could think on her feet. She needed to be Cuban, because this guy has a thing for Cuban women, and she needed to be exceptionally good looking. That’s when your name came up.’

‘Who’s the subject?’

‘Malcolm Fletcher.’

Marlena felt her legs wobble.

Malcolm Fletcher, one of the brightest minds the FBI had ever produced, was now one of the FBI’s Most Wanted – their number three man, wedged between Bin Laden and Boston Mafia kingpin James ‘Whitey’ Bulger. Fletcher currently had a two-million-dollar price tag on his head for the deaths of at least three federal agents.

And that was just what the federal government was offering. For years Marlena had heard rumours of a