Today’s excerpt is from Back
To China, a standalone book featuring Jim Scott and friends. The rescue team for the kidnapped scientists
who worked at Area 51 moves into action.
Enjoy and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
Hector moved
rapidly to check to make sure all three on their side of the road were dead,
while Jim headed toward the door leading into the facility. Billy checked those on their side, as Bob
hurried toward a covered, recessed area the four had determined was the
facility car pool. He was already
checking out the cars by the time Billy arrived, but as he did, a man stood up
from behind one of the cars. Billy,
handgun ready, shot him before the man had a chance to realize Billy was an
intruder.
Bob just shook
his head on seeing that, and kept looking the cars over. Jim had told Billy and Bob to “find two cars
with full fuel tanks, and disable the others.”
Satisfied with
which two cars he wanted to take, Bob hotwired one, while Billy did the same to
the other one. Both had full tanks. After turning them both off, the men set
about disabling the other seven vehicles in the car pool. The two Bob had picked out were a type of
SUV, ones he was unfamiliar with, but had the features of SUVs.
As they did
their work, Jim and Hector had carefully approached the door leading into the
facility. There was a small
diamond-shaped window in it. Jim grabbed
a fast peek and sighed. He tilted his
head toward the window and Hector had a look.
Seated at a desk ten feet inside sat a man who had to be a guard.
While Hector
grunted very quietly, Jim was looking for the door-opening mechanism. He just shook his head when he found
none. There was a large handle. Jim leaned his rifle against the side of the
frame as Hector did the same thing.
Jim jerked the
door open and both men hurried in.
Hector shot the man in the forehead and went forward to make sure he was
dead. Meanwhile, Jim looked around and
saw no cameras. He was happy about that
and gave a head jerk to Hector, who had picked up the body. They moved down a rather wide hallway, until
they came to the first door. It read, in
Chinese, of course: Electronics.
Jim pulled the
door open, while Hector carried the body in and dumped it behind an electrical
apparatus big enough to hide it. He
looked at Jim, who was checking out as much of the equipment in the room as he
could. After he shrugged, he and Hector
went back to the hallway to continue their search of the building.
Jim glanced at
Hector. “This is almost too easy. No locks on either door we’ve come to—and no
cameras.”
“Hey, Jim, I’m
with you about too easy, and know what you’re thinking—too easy can spell
trouble. But check out the conduit at
the top of the wall. Back at the
electronics room we found it stopped, then started up again to the front
door. Maybe they aren’t even finished
with their construction.”
“Could be. Let’s hope so. And you’re right…too easy scares me.”
“Nothing scares
you, Jimbo…except Holly.”
Jim just grunted
as they reached another door. It was
labeled: Emergency Generator #1. Hector opened the door, looked around, and
nodded as he looked at Jim, who muttered, “Later.”
“Right. But what I saw sure makes it easy to blow
this place when we leave. The fuel for
the generator is piped in.”
Jim chuckled
softly as they continued down the hallway.
At the end of it, there were two doors:
one to the right, labeled “Stay Out.
Experimental Section’, and one with no label.
Jim whispered,
“As much as I’d like to see what’s on the other side of the door to the right,
we better keep our eye on the ball.”
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