Brass Monkey by J Robert Kennedy

Author:J Robert Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Action & Adventure, Technothrillers, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Men's Adventure, Genre Fiction, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2011-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

Unknown Location, Egypt

Laura was jolted awake. Her head pounded with a throbbing, pulsing pain that radiated from her face all the way to the back of her head. The sound of rushing blood filled her ears. And the sound of a truck changing gears. She opened her eyes slightly, then blinked several times, trying to moisten them, the dry air having turned her eyeballs into arid orbs. She reached to rub them when she discovered her hands couldn’t move, and in a moment of panic, it all came rushing back to her. Crawling up the hill. The sound behind her. The man hitting her in the face with something. And now this, tied up in a vehicle heading to who knows where for who knows what purpose. The truck bucked forward again, the gnashing of gears roared in protest, the driver having trouble shifting.

Laura was lying down on the cool, metal floor of some sort of truck. The side that filled her vision was piled high with boxes and canvas bags, most of which appeared military issue, their distinctive green with black stencil lettering a dead giveaway. She rolled herself onto her back and examined her surroundings.

She was alone.

She breathed a sigh of relief, lifted her back off the ground, then pushed with one leg to swing herself around so she could lean up against the equipment she had surveyed. She gasped against the gag she just realized she had in her mouth. She pushed against it with her tongue, to no avail. It was there to stay, unless she freed her hands. She turned and rolled onto her back again, this time kicking her legs in the air and pushing down with her hands, trying to extend her arms as far as she could. She lifted them up as she tucked her legs into her chest and then bent one leg to the side, then with a push and what she thought would soon be a dislocated shoulder, she freed one leg, then the other. She lay back down, catching her breath, her gasps against the gag ragged.

A few more breaths and she reached up and pulled the gag from her mouth and breathed deeply. She looked at her hands and discovered she was bound by a plastic tie. She knew immediately she wasn’t going to be chewing through the tough plastic with ease. She needed something to cut it with. She rolled onto her stomach and pushed herself to her knees, and was about to lift her head when she saw a bolt in the truck floor. She dropped to her elbows, then positioned the plastic tie over the rough edge, and rubbed.

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