A Second Chance by Edward Kendrick

Author:Edward Kendrick [Kendrick, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Tuesday morning the team met to finalize their plan for catching the hijackers. Although the hijackers could have struck that night, or one of the following two, they didn’t, so it would take a week before they found out if the plan would work.

“Got one,” Ben heard over the transmitter the following Tuesday, as he sat in the parking lot of the diner where he had a partial view of the side of the building. The hijacker relayed the license plate and DOT numbers to his cohorts. Ben did the same to Zach, then, as he waited to be picked up, he saw the man scramble down the fire escape, getting to the bottom at the same time that a dark sedan came to a stop a few feet away. He jumped in and the sedan took off, heading, Ben was certain, to the highway entrance two blocks away.

“Took you long enough,” Ben muttered when Ez’s van pulled up beside Hayley’s car three minutes later. He got in, taking his place behind the driver’s seat. Hayley was next to him, Zach was riding shotgun.

Reaching over the back of the seat, Hayley grabbed a tactical vest, giving it to Ben. He put it on before retrieving the rifle he’d be using—the reason he was seated where he was.

The plan was that as soon as they spotted the hijackers—in their guise as highway patrol officers—pull the semi over, Ez would stop a few yards behind it. He’d still keep the van’s headlights off, as they would be once the highway traffic had thinned enough to make it feasible without calling attention to themselves. They had no intention of alerting the hijackers they were behind them until the time was right.

As soon as the van came to a halt, Ben would get out, his rifle aimed at the driver’s side door of the semi. Based on what they’d been told had happened in the previous hijackings, one of the hijackers would come around, open the door, and force the driver out. Ben’s job was to keep that from happening while Hayley and Zach dealt with the other hijackers.

“Damn, how long are they going to wait before they stop the rig?” Ez grumbled. A rhetorical question as none of them knew the answer. They’d already driven over twenty miles—the last ten between desolate stretches of farmland with no houses in sight and almost no traffic—using the semi’s tracking system to follow a good half mile behind it. They’d gotten occasional glimpses of the hijackers’ car, which was traveling with its lights on as if it were just another vehicle on the highway.

A quarter of mile later, they saw what they’d been waiting for—blue lights flashing as the hijackers’ feigned being a highway patrol squad car.

“Easy, easy,” Zach said when Ez started to speed up. “We need to catch them in the act.”

“Yeah, I know,” Ez said, sounding frustrated at having to slow down again.

The semi’s brake lights came on as it pulled to the side of the highway.

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