CHAPTER 26 Kirsten waited outside the hotel entrance for the Avis car to be brought around. A compact Audi. She glanced up and down the street and noticed a man reading a newspaper opposite. Ah! You see, she was right. Watchers. Mark called it paranoia; she called it common sense. Without staring, she kept the man in her peripheral vision. Saw him get picked up by a red VW going in the other direction. Hmm. Perhaps she was imagining things. When she finally got the Audi, she suddenly noticed the red car hanging back, double-parked. Looking as menacing as a hornet about to strike. It was a weird sensation. The heads of two men visible against the light from its rear window. She had never experienced anything like this before. A car following her. It was unreal. But she was mentally prepa

