Chasing Aquila by James Hume

Author:James Hume [Hume, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1112100008
Published: 2019-05-19T22:00:00+00:00

Next morning, they met Conway again. ‘How did it go last night, Bob?’ Sandra asked.

Conway nodded. ‘Pretty good. Because I can’t use any locals, I took a REME unit with me to check on the electrics.’

Sandra frowned. ‘REME? What’s that?’

‘Oh, sorry. They’re the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. We’ve got several of their units at Bielefeld. They’re good chaps. I wanted to check how we cut the power to the mansion house for the raid. Most houses in Germany have their utility meters in a small panel near their front door, and this one has too. We think the main isolator switch sits in a cupboard behind the panel.

‘So, it means we’ll have three points of entry.’ He pointed to the aerial photo of the house. ‘We’ll have a special team go in here at the front door – we’ll cut out the glass panel – and get the power off. Another team will enter via the factory pretty much the same way at its front door to neutralise the night watchman and isolate the electrics. That’ll give us access to the ground floor of the house via this corridor link. We’ll have our main team enter the house at first floor level from this roof garden, by cutting the glass in the French windows here. We can then quickly get to the bedroom floors, and neutralise within five seconds.

‘None of the doors or locks present a problem. There’s an alarm box on the outside of the mansion house, so we’ll neutralise that in advance with some goo. I’m more concerned about an array of radio aerials at the north end of the house just here.’ He pointed to the photo. ‘You can’t see them from the street, and they’re not obvious in the photo, but they’re this series of points here. Maybe they communicate with the network by radio? We’ll check it discreetly with some Signals chaps. That’s where we’re at now.’

‘Great,’ Sandra said. ‘Just to clarify. What do you mean by neutralising people?’

He laughed. ‘Oh, I just mean render them useless – cuffed hands and legs, gagged and hooded – so they can’t set off an alarm or communicate.’

Sandra nodded. ‘Okay. Now, I need to arrest the mister big, so where do we fit in?’

‘Right. We’d want to keep you two safe, so I suggest you come in behind the team through the factory. By the time you get into the house through this corridor link, we should have the whole place secure.’

Sandra took a note. ‘Fine. We’ll do that. It’s also maybe worth noting some of the problems we met with these people when we raided them a couple of years ago,’ She went on to describe how they overcame panic buttons and booby traps

Conway noted the points. ‘Okay, we’ll check for them.’

Sandra smiled. ‘Sounds like a good operation, though.’

‘Yeah, we’ve a bit of work to do on the details. I want every man to know exactly what he has to do on the night, so we’ll organise that over the next couple of weeks.

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