Today’s excerpt is from Bear’s
War, Book #5 of the nine-book Asps series. Asps and MI6 foil Iran’s plan to give arms to
al-Qaida plot in Europe…then hurry to get out of Switzerland where the Iranian
Ambassador’s villa was located. Enjoy
and have a great day.
m.j.
By the time
Dusty was fully into the laptop and transferring everything on it to Bruce’s
laptop, then on to the main computer in Montana
Dusty knew Bear
seldom used his first name, rather than his nickname, and knew Bear only did so
to get his attention and stress the fact that a problem was at hand. As the computer continued to dump into
Bruce’s laptop, Dusty would have preferred to wait, but the program he was
running would shut the laptop down when the program was completed. He decided that even though someone might
spot the laptop open—rather than shut, as he’d found it—he knew Bear was
serious, so he nodded and followed Bear out of the main house and across the
opening between it and the barn. Bear
was running full tilt, so Dusty followed at the same pace. The Iranian Ambassador saw them, but didn’t
realize they were intruders, thinking instead that they were men of his.
Past the barn
and on the far incline, Bear was running as fast as he could. Dusty didn’t question him, just followed as
fast as he could go, gaining slightly on Bear.
As they neared the tree line, the Ambassador entered his study, noticed
the laptop open, and suddenly realized the two men he’d seen hurrying along
might have come from the study. It was
the last thought he’d ever have.
As Bear reached
the tree line, the ground under his feet shook and a deafening explosion threw
him forward to the ground. The same
thing happened to Dusty as the explosives in the barn erupted, due to the men
the Ambassador had sent into the barn to make sure everything there was well
hidden by the time the police arrived—having moved the wrong item and triggered
Bear’s booby trap. The barn
disintegrated, the building behind it was leveled, the next building in line
was all but leveled, and the third of the berthing buildings was ruined. The main house was three-fourths blown apart,
with only a far outside wall and a third of the front wall still standing. None of the Iranians were alive. Bear and Dusty were only partially
alive. Neither man could hear, and every
muscle in their bodies ached as they both tried to crawl forward toward the
spot where the others waited. The rest
of the team wasn’t as bad off, but all their ears ached and they all had
instant headaches, so vicious had the explosion been. When Bruce saw Bear and Dusty crawling toward
him and the others, he hurried forward, followed by Anson and Billy. Those three quickly had help getting Bear and
Dusty to the Land Rovers. After those
two were helped into the rear of one of the Land Rovers, Jack got in with them,
to see what he could do for them. Both
men were bleeding from the nose, and neither could hear a thing. Dusty tried to speak and found he couldn’t,
so he gave up. Kye, meanwhile, jumped
in, backed the Land Rover down to the road, and followed Bruce, who was driving
another of the vehicles. Anson drove the
third Land Rover, as all three started down the road toward a main road they
hoped to reach before the police arrived.
When Bruce saw a
police car approaching, he stopped and got out.
He looked back up the hill and pointed at the inferno as everything up
at the compound was now ablaze. The first
police car to reach them hollered at Bruce to get back in his vehicle and go on
about his business. Bruce nodded, and
smiled as he drove away. Tommy, who was
sitting in the front seat next to Bruce, smiled. “Very nicely done. A nosey bystander told to go on his way. Very nicely done indeed.”
When they came
to a roadblock, Bruce put his window down and told the policemen he and his
friends in the next two Land Rovers had been told to get out of the area by
another policeman. He was signaled on. Tommy sighed.
“That was almost too easy.”
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