Chapter 15
Just before midnight, a black car came mysteriously slithering out of a dark tunnel beneath a freeway, its oval beams of brightness slashing through the heavy fog like a machete. As the car moved slowly along the vacant, narrow street, the ground fog parted in its wake, making the vehicle resemble a burning-eyed specter coming up out of an abyss. The heavy mist muffled the sound of the car’s engine as it crept closer to the station, keeping its approach shrouded in darkness.
Within a half block of the radio station, the lights blinked out abruptly, and then it silently turned into the unlit parking lot. The phantom-like vehicle pulled into a vacant slot among several others, giving the driver a perfect front and side view of the station.
The car sat alone and still—no movemen
