(Crime Hunter Universe) Hunter Series, Episode 1 : The Biggest Man In Town
Chapter 1 Thursday, March 6, 1986 – 11:00 a.m. At The La Rouge restaurant, Beverly Hills The air inside La Rouge carried the expensive perfume of old money and older secrets. Crystal chandeliers dripped soft light over white tablecloths; waiters moved like ghosts in black tie. At a corner table near the tall windows, Raymond Bellamy sat alone. He was fifty-two, silver at the temples, tanned from golfing at Campo Alto famous golf course, horse-riding at his huge ranch and routine hunting safari in Africa at least twice a year. Today he wore a charcoal Brioni suit, a pale-blue shirt open at the throat, and a silk tie the color of dried blood. Behind the knot of that tie, taped carefully against his skin, a small transmitter hummed with quiet menace. Bellamy glanced at the Rolex President on his wrist for the third time in four minutes. Eleven-oh-four. Latimer was late. Deliberately late. The bastard always had to make an entrance. The maître d’ led Charlie Latimer through...