Today’s
excerpt is from Tears And Terrorists, Book #4 of the nine-book Asps Series. Tommy Saunders found and freed. During the operation, the team also finds out
the first name of Sergeant Major Squires…a well-kept secret until then. Enjoy and have a great day.
m.j.
The floor plan
showed the two guards on each floor would be nearest the door as they went
through, with each guarding ten cells each.
As the team went through the door, the two guards looked up. Jim shot one, and Anson shot the other one,
as Tony and his group raced up the stairs.
Even as they reached the top of the stairs, the two guards there saw
them. Tony killed one and the other was
killed by Sergeant Major Squires, with one of his men also shooting the
man. Then Tony and one of the SAS men
went to the guard Tony had killed, found the key to open the gate leading to
the cells on that end of the second floor, and soon were through the iron-bar
gate. The same scene was replayed on all
four gates at about the same time.
On Tony’s
section, only six of the ten cells were occupied. Each prisoner was let out of his cell and
told, in both Arabic and Farsi, to stand by the gate as they were let out. None was Tommy Saunders.
On his section,
Sergeant Major Squires and the other SAS man found seven men in the ten cells
there. They were told the same thing as
the other six others had been…again, no Tommy Saunders.
Jim and Hector
also found seven prisoners, and after all were let out of the cells, Jim said,
also in Arabic, then in Farsi, “Go to the gate and wait for us,” then in
English, “Anyone here named Tommy Saunders?”
One of the freed
prisoners pointed. “He’s in the other
section on this floor.”
By the time Jim,
Hector, and their seven prisoners were to and through the gate, Anson and Dan
were through their gate with ten prisoners, one of whom Anson was half
carrying. He was Tommy Saunders. On finding that out, Jim patted him, gently,
on the shoulder. “Nice to meet you,
Tommy. Judy Silverman sent us after
you.”
“God bless
Judy,” Tommy muttered in a very weak voice.
Since all the
team was wearing their communication sets, both Tony and Sergeant Major
Squires, of course, heard Jim and Tommy.
Both took a deep breath and let it out as they hurried their prisoners
down the steps.
Back on the
ground floor, Sergeant Major Squires rushed up to Tommy, took him in his arms,
and gave him a big hug. He stood back
and asked, “Hi, Tommy, ready to go home?”
“You bet,
Cyrus.”
The two SAS men,
who had never heard their Sergeant Major’s first name, looked at each other and
smiled. Tony, who knew it but never used
it, looked at the two men and silently shook his head in warning. They understood immediately and wiped the smiles
from their faces. Only then did Tony
realize just what good friends Tommy and the Sergeant Major were, because the
Sergeant Major had nearly choked the one time Tony had ever called him Cyrus.
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