Today’s excerpt is from The Saltwater
Connection, Book #6 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Dan and Janet Orf agree to join the Janitors. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
When the interrogation of Mustafa Zawahiri was
completed to everyone’s satisfaction, Jim called his troops together, after
politely asking Suzan to take a walk, which she just as politely declined. Only after Jim stressed that he wanted to
speak to his people alone did she agree to find something to do in a location
other than the office. When she left,
Jim shook his head and grinned. “Okay,
guys, here’s the plan. Holly, you and
Hector accompany Jessica back to Los
Angeles
Janet
looked at Dan. “You say ‘no’ and I’m
gonna kick you in your latest wound.”
Dan
grinned as he looked at his fiery redheaded wife. “At least you didn’t threaten me with the
couch.”
“Not
on your life. You’re too good in the
sack.”
Amid a
few snickers, Dan nodded. “Sure,
Jim. It’d be an honor. Be fun to track down and kill spiderman cult
extremists.”
Jim
looked at Dan with a questioning tilt of his head, Janet rolled her eyes, and
Dan smiled. “Uh, the spiderman cult deal
comes from a young friend…a SEAL who I’m proud to say I helped train and who
saved my bacon by carrying me out of harms way on his back after I got all shot
up. A fellow by the name of Bob
Becker. Anyhow, it seems a terrorist
outfit…don’t know what group or exactly where it happened…but this group of bad
guys kidnapped two nuns and were trying to get a large ransom. To the everlasting credit of our President,
he authorized the SEALs to go rescue the nuns.
Bob led the team, and even as they approached their LZ, they could see a
major fire-fight underway. They went
ahead on in and, once on the ground, went forward and used their electronic
gear to determine who was the bad guys and who was the good guys. Once they were sure, the fight was soon over
as they assisted the good guys.
“Too
bad, but they found out the nuns had been killed…at least three days prior to
the SEALs arriving on the scene. But
this is where the story gets really interesting. After a few tries to communicate, it was
discovered that the ‘good guys’ and the SEALs all spoke at least passable
Arabic. Then they sat down and discussed
things. During the course of that
conversation, Bob found out that the group was a Christian sect…dating to way
back. I mean way back. They had
absolutely no use for any Muslim…period.
Seems one of the ancient ancestors had actually been a sidekick of that
Mohammad jerk. Seems Mohammad was a
low-life, two-bit crook determined to be the real deal…and wanting to take the
wind out of the sails of those who believed in Jesus. First the idiot tried to walk on water. This ancestor of those Bob was talking to had
pulled him out of the drink before he drowned.
Then the two of them, Mohammad and the ancestor, were in a cave and a
large spider came near Mohammad and the dope nearly crapped his pants before
his sidekick saved him again by stepping on the spider. So Mohammad got to thinking and came up with
the story of a cave full of spiders, et cetera, as one of his miracles. Then he got the sidekick and two other of his
close allies to lie about the ‘ordeal.’
But as the story grew and grew, and Mohammad became revered as something
other than he really was, first one of the other two of his men was sent into
battle, without a chance of winning.
Then the other one was offed in the same manner. The original sidekick decided that his days
were numbered and split. Tired and
hungry he wound up being found by members of the Christian sect. In time he converted and became a
Christian. But being surrounded by these
spiderman creeps, no way the sect ever let on that they knew the real story of
Mohammad. That’s the story and why Bob
came up with the spiderman cult deal…I just sorta picked it up. Is the story true? Who knows or really cares.
“But
back to Janet and me joining up with you, I’ll have to go back to L.A.
Jim
smiled. “Some story…as you said,
interesting. As to your boss, figured
you would want to let him know in person.
And you do need that wound properly attended to. Can I keep Jan while you do that?”
“Sure. Get her off my case about getting shot again.”
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