Chapter 5: StakeoutWhen he arrived at the rendezvous, Vera was waiting for him. She shook her head, frowning. “You’re late!” But she said the words without much energy. He looked at his watch, and saw he was only five minutes late, so he shrugged and Vera said no more. They headed off.
The stakeout, apparently, was in the seedy part of the city, between the downtown core and the warehouse area adjacent to the docks. Here there were a few houses, some tenements, and old small-scale industrial buildings, some unused and others turned into lofts for artists and various forms of small business.
They reached the building, which was situated on a side street, entered through a metal door, and climbed a set of solid but old wooden stairs. Vera knocked on a metal door that had the figures 3A ste
