Today’s excerpt is from Bullets
And Baseball, Book #6 of the Asps Series. In Yemen, Billy and Bear leave a rude
surprise for a shipload of terrorists. Enjoy
and have a great day.
m.j.
When
Dusty reached the outskirts of Al Hudaydah, he had Kye call Bear. After a short conversation, Bear told her he
and Billy would be up and waiting for them in an alley next to the cut-rate
hotel they were in.
Billy
grumbled as he heard Bear’s part of the conversation, but soon got up. Neither man had undressed after agreeing
there was less likelihood of leaving their lodging with bugs by sleeping fully
dressed.
As
Dusty pulled into the alley, with Ike right behind him, Bear and Billy walked
up to Dusty’s car, got in the rear, then explained what their plan was. Dusty thought it sounded good, while Kye
thought they were “nuts.”
Bear
directed Dusty to a place for both cars to park that allowed those in the car
to see the ship he and Billy were going to “attack.” Dusty had offered to go with them, but Bear
thought they could handle it without help.
As the
four in the cars watched, Bear and Billy went to the dock, seemed to head down
a ladder of some type, then disappear from view. At the bottom of the ladder, there was a
slight ledge from an outcropping of rock.
Both men soon disrobed and eased into the water, for a three hundred
yard swim to the boat.
When
they arrived at the bow of the ship, they swam around to the side of it,
opposite the side nearest the dock.
There they found what they expected to—a ladder with a landing that had
a small boat attached. They had seen the
smaller vessel come and go a few times, each time to return with more
“recruits” aboard. They correctly surmised
the small boat must be off-loading some of the recruits from Oman on a much
smaller boat arranged there.
At the
base of the ladder, no one was in sight.
So in no time the two were up on the landing, then up the ladder. At the top, they peered over the gunwale. The top of it was nearly three feet above the
deck. Again, no one was in sight, except
for about twenty men sleeping on blankets on the deck. Bear glanced at Billy, who shrugged, before
they went over the gunwale and proceeded to search what they could of the ship. Their main goal was to find something
explosive they could rig to cause the most damage.
They
found a small armory and busied themselves with rigging some of the contents to
explode when they wanted them to go off.
Earlier in the day—or actually the previous day—they had been discussing
the ‘how’ of using what they found aboard to cause the boat to explode. Billy had had come up with an idea. “Bear, the harbor’s water is pretty calm, and
I’m sure once at sea, it’ll be much less calm.
What say when we rig it up, we figure out something so the rolling sea
causes our trigger to go off with the motion.”
Bear
had agreed and now, as they were rigging the explosives they’d found, Billy
found a small bottle, and soon made a concoction which, when moving much, would
explode. Bear checked it out, and
nodded. “Yeah, that’ll do…nice
work. Give it to me—I got the perfect
place to put it.”
As
those two left the boat, Jack muttered, “Didn’t take them too long.”
Dusty
agreed as he watched Bear and Billy swim until they were out of sight, when
they neared where they had left their clothing.
Kye joked, “Sure hope they carry their clothes back here. At this distance, it looks like Billy is hung
pretty well.”
Dusty—knowing
full well Kye hadn’t been able to see any such thing—just shook his head, while
Jack and Ike, in the other car, both laughed.
When
the two fully-clothed saboteurs reached Dusty’s car and got in, Dusty started
up, then began the drive back to Sana’a, with Ike following close behind.
After
Billy and Bear put their communication sets back on, there was quite a bit of
joking around, especially about Kye’s words.
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