Today’s excerpt is from Escape
From Mexico, a standalone book featuring Clyde Feegle, Bob Becker and
some old friends. The head of a major
drug cartel watches a test of his plot to take out the President. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
Even as
Michelle’s plane was nearing home, ‘Z’ was observing a test of his plan to deal
with the President of the United States.
In front of him were four men; to his left was another man. Still another was far distant, out of sight
of the five with ‘Z’. The four in front
each had two less-than-two feet-long-drone airplanes and a mounted monitor to
control them. The man to the left of ‘Z’
also had a monitor with four split-screen configuration. The other man and the one to the left of ‘Z’
were connected by long-range communication sets.
The distant man
waited until the Boeing 747 took off. He
waited still longer before he commanded, “Now, launch.”
As the man to
the left of ‘Z’ repeated the order, the four men each launched both of their
planes. They controlled the drones well,
as they sped toward the engines of the big jet.
‘Z’ watched the screen next to him with growing excitement as the 747
grew in size. Just in time to avoid a
collision, the man next to ‘Z’ ordered, “Dive!”
Seven of the
eight drones dipped under the engine they had been headed for; the eighth
dipped enough to avoid going into the engine, but did clip the cowling. It
fell like a wounded duck, while the other drones were brought back to their
handlers.
‘Z’ nearly
reached for his weapon to shoot the man who had only one drone act properly,
but stood grim-faced as he controlled the urge.
The man next to him, who knew ‘Z’ and his temper well, quickly muttered,
“Had we been trying to bring that plane down, we would have succeeded. It only takes one of our drones to hit the
engine, and we will have our kill—especially since we will have a small
explosive charge set to go off on contact.
Since the ‘dive’ signal causes the operators to hit one button, it would
seem the relay on that one drone must have been slightly out of kilter. In my opinion, we are operational right
now—after we replace the drone we just lost.”
‘Z’ looked at
the man for a few seconds, then asked, “What happens when they discover the
dent you no doubt put in that plane?”
“Hopefully, they
will assume it was a bird.”
“If you are
sure, deploy to your assigned waiting locations.”
Actually,
later—when the plane landed—it was determined that the small dent in the
cowling was caused by something on the runway being nearly sucked into the
engine. Had the two pilots been more
alert, they would have noticed the eight drones headed their way—but they were
otherwise occupied and failed to see them.
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