Today’s excerpt is from The
Zimo Hunt, Book #2 of the nine-book Asps Series. Posing as a terrorist, Bear delivers a
homemade bomb to an al-Qaida bomb factory.
Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
The man took
note of Kye at the steering wheel, but said nothing as he helped Bear carry the
rest of the items into the building.
Once back inside, Bear instructed the leader, “Find a container large
enough to empty the contents of all these items into. You should have a large enough container so
there is a small gap for air. The bomb
will be set off by a rifle shot to the top of the container. The heat from the bullet going through the
fumes will detonate it. When our attack
is ready, I will return and tell you where to take the bomb. We have to get our sniper in place before we
go with the bomb. Keep extreme heat away
from it as you prepare it. Other than that,
the materials are quite safe to handle.
I will be back within the hour.”
With that he
left the building, even as the leader tried to ask questions. Bear walked to the car, got in, and
pointed. “Drive.”
Kye managed not
to smile as she saw two men standing inside the front door of the building,
looking in their direction. They were
about three blocks away in extremely heavy traffic when there was a terrific
explosion, followed by several smaller secondary explosions. Bear just smiled. “Oops, you make a left turn back at the last
street.”
“Thanks for
telling me now. My own fault—should have
paid more attention. Must say, your bomb
caught my attention.”
The site of the
bomb factory was now a vacant lot, and two of the nearby buildings were
flattened as well. Several others were
ruined and, even as Kye drove back to the safe house, several fires were
burning in the area. When they arrived
and went inside, Bear reported, and Bruce got busy on his computer, and
composing a “communiqué” from al-Qaida, lambasting the government of Pakistan and
claiming responsibility for the explosion.
The communiqué carried only one name…Zimo. The communiqué was routed through Jim’s
computer, which made it totally untraceable, with the various filter programs
Jim had programmed into it with the help of Bruce and Harry.
Even as Bruce
was doing so, Drew and Boris were on their way in one of the cars to the
al-Qaida safe house, to keep an eye on the comings and goings there.
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