Chapter 77
“One minute,” Kate whispered keeping her eye on her watch.
It had been a real workout running up ten stories of the interior stairwell. The masks were hot and there was no internal surveillance past the first floor, so she’d rolled it up on her forehead.
Sam had done the same and crouched close beside her outside the tenth-floor apartment’s rear door which opened onto their stairwell.
The other two teams would be sweeping toward the apartment’s front door from opposite ends of the lush-carpeted hallway.
Through a small window in the stairwell she could see a shadow on the fire escape twenty feet along the side of the building. That must be Devlin. The streetlights didn’t reach this high and the pre-dawn light was still too soft to reveal more than his vaguest outline.
She
