L-2: We Got Him

Two men were sitting in a car outside the airport. The window on the driver’s side was fully pulled down and the man’s hand was hanging out of it. It was a hot day and the men were clearly bored.

‘He should be out now, shouldn’t he?’ said the other man. He was chewing on his sandwich with an open bottle of coke in his other hand.

‘It won’t be long now,’ replied the man at the steering wheel. ‘He already landed. You should finish your lunch and clean the mess a bit. Look what you’re doing! I really hate it when you eat in the car.’

The other man laughed and looked at his companion before he replied. ‘Well, you know the orders. We mustn’t leave the car. I prefer eating in a restaurant, but what can I do? Orders are orders. And you don’t want me to die of hunger, do you?’ said the man and he laughed again.

The man on the driver’s seat was preparing to say something, when suddenly, the radio went on. After a short crackle, they heard a man’s voice. ‘He’s coming out!’

The man with the bottle of coke put the rest of his sandwich in his mouth, and took a camera in his hand to take some pictures.

A man came out from the airport and was standing now on the pavement near the road. He was elegantly dressed, wearing dark sunglasses and an expensive dark suit. He was in his mid fifties and there was some grey in his hair.

The man looked around for a moment and then raised his hand to call a taxi. A few seconds later he opened the door and got into the car.

The man with the camera was taking pictures all the time. The man at the steering wheel started the engine of the car, pushed the button on the radio and said: ‘We got him.’

The car moved forward and in just a few short moments, they were in the flow of the traffic, following the taxi with their man inside.

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© Sparrow’s English Reader / Level 2, English Reading