The envelope had hit him hard. He should have expected it. Someone who was sick enough to leave something as grisly as the bodies, smart enough to cov...r himself with the lack of evidence, he should have known that he was going to need the extra stimulation and bring Nick into the game. He was going to be used as a pawn, a game piece that was expendable though useful. The killer wanted to make the police force look like fools, wanted to make him look like an incompetent idiot, and he was doing a. They gathered up their stuff and slithered out of their hiding place while nobody was looking in their direction. They moved back another 500 yards before turning to their left to find another close place to use for an observation station.They had to circle around the camp for over a mile before they found the kind of place that they were looking for. By now, it was noon, and the Russians had a full scale search going in the area that they had vacated. Jim realized how lucky they had been and. When he walked into the small room, he found Lisa sitting at the same table as his book. It was obvious that she’d had a few drinks down at the party, but David didn’t think she was drunk. At least, not until she got out of the chair and stepped up to him.“Oh look, mistletoe,” she laughed softly, in a voice slurred just enough to make David rethink his opinion. “You know what that means.”David glanced up and sure enough, he was standing under a sprig of mistletoe that someone had hung from the. It was before eight and we were the only guests in the small dining area with vintage wallpaper and gray views of the riled up ocean. It matched our mood. She played with my fingers and finally said, ‘Maybe there’s no salvage to us, Sean. Maybe this was never supposed to work.’ Filled with gloom, we checked out and started back to the shack. ‘Sean, you know what a shrink would tell you?’ I didn’t answer. She waited several minutes and said, ‘A shrink would tell you that the motorcycle is your.