“And you don’t know if it’s going to work until you try it for real.” You learn the patterns, you practice-you get better.” She leaned closer and tapped my shoulder. “It’s just like any other martial arts training. Meaning Michael Cheung, the Folly’s “liaison” in Chinatown and a man whose business card listed his profession as “Legendary Swordsman.” You want a certain kind of personality who can stand around in the rain for eight hours and still be awake enough to shoot someone in the central body mass at a moment’s notice. You use Protection Command people for this kind of job because unlike SCO19 they’re trained to do guard duty. “Compared to them,” she told us, “I don’t find this job stressful at all.” Her name was Lucy and she had three children under the age of five. We needn’t have bothered-she’d evaporated into the summer afternoon.īecause we were the second Falcon response team, Nightingale being the first, me and Guleed ended up in a corridor at UCH guarding Richard Williams’s hospital room, along with a reassuringly solid member of Protection Command in full ballistic armor and armed with an H& K MP5 submachine gun. Then we grabbed a response car so we could be properly mobile in case she was spotted. Me and Guleed didn’t follow them because we were too busy circulating a description of the nanny and warning responding officers not to go anywhere near her until Falcon qualified officers arrived. We probably should have guessed something like that had happened when the ambulance screeched up and a pair of paramedics charged past us into the house. Lies Sleeping is his seventh novel in the Peter Grant series. Ben Aaronovich has additionally written for the TV show Doctor Who. The following is an exclusive excerpt from Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch, the latest in his Sunday Times bestselling Rivers of London contemporary urban fantasy/crime fiction series, which explores the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.
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