34 The Double CrossSkinner wandered the dark hallways in the Beverly Hills mansion, checking the windows and doors for security purposes before locking the place down for the night. The process was always the same and had been for many months: a necessary evil but tedious nonetheless. The mansion was on three floors cut into the hillside, with the swimming pool terrace on the uppermost floor. The unrestricted panorama could be enjoyed from each level but unfortunately this meant that there were plenty of access points available to any would-be intruders. It was for just this reason that Cuckoo had put in a basement with an escape tunnel that emerged by the road below the property. Above the tunnel’s exit stood a small innocuous wooden garage containing a specially modified Audi A8 to enabl
