The man stumbled backwards, dazed by the impact, but Steel finished him quickly with a straight leg kick, which sent the man crashing back through the wall. He pulled the unconscious man from the rubble of plasterboard and noticed that the gap between the outside wall and the bathroom wall was large enough to fit a person. He hoped that he would fit.
Carefully, he tore at some layers of the wall until the hole was big enough, then climbed inside. This was his way up, unnoticed. On the fourth floor, men stood ready with the butts of their automatic rifles tucked into their shoulders – ready for whatever, whoever might come up the staircase.
Each floor had a large landing and a stairwell that ran up the back wall, and a long corridor branched off the floor space with two apartments in each
