Captain Riley (The Captain Riley Adventures Book 1) by Fernando Gamboa

Author:Fernando Gamboa [Gamboa, Fernando]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Genre Fiction, Historical, Thrillers & Suspense, Spies & Politics, Espionage, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Thrillers
ISBN: 1503951480
Amazon: B010UMT8WI
Publisher: AmazonCrossing
Published: 2016-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

It’s hard to measure time when you’re handcuffed, suffering excruciating pain, and awaiting a horrible death that could come at any moment. Every minute feels like an eternity, so Riley couldn’t say if it’d been half an hour or half the night when the door opened again and Agent Smith appeared in his spy trench coat and hat.

“Good Lord,” Smith said, stopping in the doorway. “What . . . what have those savages done to you?”

Riley looked at him with his good eye. “I believe,” he said, blood trickling from his mouth, “what you told them to do.”

“Good God, no,” he said, bending over and wiping the blood with his own handkerchief. “I just asked them to soften you a little. This is . . . it’s intolerable.”

“That’s what I’d say”—Riley coughed painfully—“but who asked me?”

“You have no idea how sorry I am,” he said, putting a hand on his shoulder. “I assure you I didn’t want this to happen. Please allow me to offer my sincerest apologies.”

“Well, please forgive me . . . if I don’t accept them.”

“Of course, of course.” Smith nodded. “But tell me . . . going back to our previous subject . . . is there something you’d like to share with me?”

Riley knew he wouldn’t survive a second dance with Abdullah’s family. He had to buy time. “Operation Apokalypse”—he took a deep breath—“we believe is a Nazi plan to attack Portsmouth with . . . a new weapon. A kind of superbomb . . . capable of leveling the city completely.” Riley was looking directly in his eyes, but they didn’t change at all. No alarm, no surprise.

“Yeah . . . Is that all?”

Riley knew the stereotype of British poise, but this was ridiculous. “Did you get what I said? The Germans are planning to attack Portsmouth, killing hundreds or thousands of your countrymen.”

“I understood you perfectly well, Captain Riley,” he answered. “But I’m still waiting for you to tell me something we don’t know.”

Riley’s scheme collapsed like a house of cards. “You . . . you know?”

“Of course we know.” He smirked. “We have the best intelligence service in the world. We know all about Operation Apokalypse.”

Things were making less and less sense. None, actually. “But . . . then . . .” Riley shook his head. “What the hell am I doing here?” He looked at his bonds, then at Smith again. “Why did you kidnap and torture me . . . if you know all that already?”

“Don’t you get it?” Smith said, standing. “It’s not about what we know. It’s about what you know. That’s what I want to find out.”

“What I know? But . . . what does that matter?”

Smith tutted. “Maybe a little, maybe a lot,” he said. “But either way, I need you to tell me more.”

“I’ve told you absolutely everything.”

“I see . . . I feel you’re still unaware of the situation, Captain Riley.”

“Oh yes,” he said painfully. “I’m fully aware of the situation.”

Smith put his hands behind his waist and started to pace around the room.

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