Court Martial by Donald E. Zlotnik

Author:Donald E. Zlotnik [ZLOTNIK, DONALD E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780446566803
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-09-25T16:00:00+00:00

A man dressed in black stepped onto the front porch of the cabin. He had heard the rifle fire down by the meadow and figured one of his teams had run into some guards. It was an excellent distraction for his two teams.

Mary had been awakened by the shots. She felt for Spencer. He was gone, and where he had lain on the bed was cold. She realized that he had been gone for a good while. She slipped out of her white nightgown and wrapped one of her father’s navy-blue bathrobes around her. She knew that her father kept a pistol in the nightstand by the bed that he used mostly to scare off raccoons that tried raiding the cabin at night. She had fired the long-barreled .44 magnum a couple of times but didn’t like the kick of the large handgun. The top drawer of the nightstand stuck and she had to yank hard to get it open. The walnut handle of the blued gun came into sight just as the moonlight in the open window was blocked by a huge figure slipping into the bed?room. Mary didn’t have to be told that the person was too big to be Spencer or any of his recon buddies. She removed the magnum and even took a second to pull back the hammer before she fired. The roar and flash from the gun filled the bedroom. Her father had hand loaded the rounds himself and had added extra powder because he wanted more noise than blast to scare away the animals, and he had used wadcutters for lead bullets. The force of the mushrooming lead smashed Brother Karriem back through the window. His huge shoulder caught a corner of the window frame and split the wood on his journey back down to the ground.

Mary recocked the hammer and slipped out of the bedroom into the hallway. She saw the light from the kitchen at the foot of the stairs and thought better of exposing herself. She squatted next to one of the guest-bedroom doors and tipped a ceramic vase over on its side and rolled it over the carpet so that it would bounce down the steps. The vase thudded down the stairs and shattered when it hit the oak floor.

The bright flashes coming from an Uzi lit up the dark wall of the den opposite the open balcony where Mary now squatted. She stuck the barrel of the .44 magnum between two of the rails and fired a little above the flashes. The lights jerked and went out. Mary heard the body hit the floor and then it was quiet in the cabin.

Arnason reached the back porch a couple of steps ahead of Woods. They each carried a silenced pistol.arnason used the barrel of his gun to point with, and Woods nodded and slipped around to circle the cabin. A dark shadow rose from behind a lounge chair and both of the recon men fired. The drama was played like a mime, without any noise being made.

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