Dawn of the Hunter by Blake Banner

Author:Blake Banner [Banner, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-31T22:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

I had three-quarters of an hour to wait before Ape Man’s replacement arrived. That gave me time to recover my strength and work out the details of what I had to do. I was waiting, sitting behind the door when he arrived. He was whistling a jaunty tune. He’d obviously been having a good day up to that point.

I shot him in the left hip. He gasped, like somebody who has stepped into a really cold shower. Then he folded over to the left and kept saying, “Oh God! Oh shit! Shit…!”

I went and grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and dragged him over where we wouldn’t be seen by passers-by. I frisked him and found a Glock 19. It was a girl’s gun, but I stuck it in my waistband and picked up the blowtorch. He saw it and began to panic, holding out his hands and saying, “No, no, no…”

I looked him in the eye. “I am going to burn your face off.”

“No, no please, anything, what do you want? I’ll cooperate.” He had tears in his eyes from the fear and the pain. I almost felt sorry for him.

“Where is Maddox?”

“In the main office. In the factory. Mister, I need a doctor.”

“Where they make the pills?”

He nodded.

I said, “What about the guy in the suit and the shades?”

He knew who I meant. “He’s with him.” He was whimpering.

“Who is he?”

“I don’t know his name. They don’t use names. They just call him Tau.”

“Tau?” He nodded. It made sense. Tau was the nineteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. “What else?”

He shrugged. He was crying now, his face creased up. “He’s from the Omega Corporation. They say he’s Maddox’s boss, please Mister, it really hurts.”

“OK, what about Dr. Weitz? Where is he?”

“He’s always in the labs, just out here on the left. You can’t miss it. Please let me get a doctor. I ain’t nobody. I am just…”

I cut across him. “You’re just the guy who was going to torture me for the next four months.” I shot him in the head. Like I said, I hadn’t completely lost my humanity.

I took the blow torch and lit it. Then I carried it over and placed it a couple of inches from the barrel at the middle of the stack of diesel drums. Diesel is not flammable, it’s combustible. That means it won’t burn, but when it gets hot it releases gases that are explosive. I didn’t know how long it would take, but eventually that drum would blow.

I was mad as hell by now, and in no mood for creeping around. I walked up to the nearest hut and kicked the door in. There were three lab technicians. They looked at me in surprise. I shot two of them between the eyes and kicked the third in the nuts. As he went down wheezing, I put the Sig to his head and said, “Where is Weitz?”

He looked up at me and pointed toward the next hut. I shot him and moved on.

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