Deadly Contact by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2013-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

10

They made final a attempt to contact Maple Lake. The radio emitted only muffled static. Casper switched off. “So much for modern technology.”

They had donned their backpacks, Bolan carrying his MP-5 in his hand, the Beretta 93-R in his shoulder rig under his parka. Dukas still had the pistol Bolan had given her and Casper had a 9 mm Browning in a hip holster. They wore caps and thermal gloves.

“We set?” Bolan asked.

“You believe those people might show up?” Casper asked.

“They’ve done it so far. It isn’t beyond their capabilities to work out where we were heading. Sooner or later this has to come together.”

“Okay.”

“Bud, you lead. Head toward Maple Lake,” Bolan said.

“Erika, I want you between me and Bud. Keep close everybody. It’s easy to get separated in this weather.”

Dukas nodded, turning as Casper opened the hatch and the chill wind blew into the cabin. They moved out of the Cessna, Casper closing the hatch and securing it.

They strung out in the formation Bolan had ordered, heads down against the stinging wind and snow. Visibility was poor, and it was apparent that Bolan had made the correct assumption. It wouldn’t take much to get lost if any of them stepped away from the collective line of travel. Casper checked his position, indicated which way they needed to go and led the way. The dark outline of the Cessna quickly vanished as they crossed the open clearing, heading for the line of timber ahead.

Bolan kept his focus on Dukas as well as the surrounding terrain. His regard for her rose higher. Despite the trauma of the last day or so she was staying with the game. As she trudged through the thick carpet of snow, shoulders hunched against the slap of the wind, she made no protest. Her friendship with Tira Malivik had thrown her to the wolves, and had placed her in the position of having to take a life in order to survive. And she was coming through it. Taking whatever the situation threw at her. Bolan knew that took a special kind of courage—and it appeared that Erika Dukas had it within her. Bolan had accepted responsibility for her and in his book that carried an unspoken bond to see this through to a conclusion.

They walked for more than two hours, Casper’s natural instincts allowing him to guide them with confidence. The pilot had that built-in homing ability that Bolan had seen in Jack Grimaldi on more than one occasion. In the air, or on the ground, the pilots developed a strong sense of direction that took them wherever they wanted to go with unerring accuracy. If the severe weather and mechanical failure hadn’t forced Casper to make an emergency landing, Bolan was confident he would have put them down on the airstrip they had been heading for. But nature had a way of changing drastically, without prior warning, and putting up barriers that negated planned intentions. When that happened the only course was to roll with those changes and move on.

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