Today’s excerpt is from Back
To Iraq, Book #2 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Jessica takes off after the bomb. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
Both Jessica and Hector saw the bomb in
mid-air and fired at it. It seemed to
flutter downwards, soon out of sight.
Boris also saw it, but didn’t have a shot. Before he lost sight of it, he saw it land on
top of a boxcar. He reported that
face. “The bomb is on a boxcar.”
Jessica
was the first to react. She turned and
ran as fast as she could to one of the cars they had left some two hundred feet
behind her. When she reached it, she
tore open the door and jumped in. She
started the car and drove off—the car door slammed shut from the force of her
acceleration.
Once
underway, she explained her movements. “I’m
going to try to get to that overpass I noticed in Bellefontaine Neighbors that
is just off Bellefontaine Road. The one
with the light, just past the filling station.”
“Go,
Jess,” encouraged Jim before he walked back to John’s car, which was just
pulling to a stop behind his. To John,
Jim muttered, “Jessie is going after the train.
The damn bomb is on there somehow.
Call ahead and have your guys let her through.”
John
immediately got on the radio. “All
personnel. One of the Janitors is going
to be heading south on 367 from 67—you’ll know her because she’ll be driving
like a mad woman. Give her free access!”
Even
as he spoke, Jessica flew around the corner at Jamestown Road and narrowly
missed a car just turned around by the road-block. She swung around that impediment, up the
ramp, and onto Highway 367 southbound.
At the first of four stoplights, where the northbound lanes of Highway
367 were shut down, she again nearly hit a turning car.
Traveling
at speeds she didn’t even want to think about, the next light on 367 taxed her
driving skills to the maximum, as the light was green the other direction and
cars from both directions were crossing the intersection. First, to avoid the stopped traffic, she
swung into the empty left-hand turn lane, then swerved between the two moving
cars, and somehow came out the other side unscathed.
Racing
on down 367, she used similar tactics at the next light, which was also
red. This time there was no oncoming
traffic, so she just barreled through the light and approached the last of the
lights on that section of road. Luckily,
this one was green, so her derring-do consisted of simply driving on the
shoulder, around the traffic, and on down to Highway 270, where she took the
ramp and headed east on that highway.
Again
she had to travel the shoulder of the road to get around traffic. This time she was spotted driving like a
crazy woman by a Bellefontaine Neighbors police officer, who gave chase.
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Tom,
meanwhile, had heard Jessica and heard what Jim said to John. He told Jim he was going after Jessica and
Jim simply groaned to John, “Another of my loonies is rushing off in the same
direction.”
John
nodded and warned his forces.
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