CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Rais was careful to maintain the legal speed limit as he drove the SUV southbound on an otherwise empty Swiss avenue. He kept his eyes open and alert and listened keenly for the sound of sirens, which he expected to begin their telltale scream in the night at any moment.
The first thing he had done after his escape, after killing the two Swiss officers and the hospital guard, was take the guard’s truck. He knew he could not keep it long, but he also knew that the authorities would expect him to get on the highway immediately and put some distance between him and Sion. Instead he drove up the road from the hospital until he found a gas station that was still open at that late hour.
He looked the station over from across the street before pulling in. There would be cameras
