Death Blow by Keith Douglass

Author:Keith Douglass [Douglass, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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16

Gulf of Thailand

Onboard the John C. Stennis, CVN 74

The SEALs arrived back on board the carrier the same way they had left it, on a COD. They had landed almost twenty-four hours earlier and now they were getting ready for their new mission.

They were two men down. Vinnie Van Dyke was still in the ship’s hospital with his chest shot. Dobler was in no shape to go along. He was in the carrier’s medical unit where they were fighting infection in his leg wound.

“The Ganges might be the holy river of India, but it’s also the main sewer system,” one of the Navy doctors said. He had checked all of the men for any kind of infections or lung problems, gave them a clean bill of health, and sent them back to duty.

The twelve SEALs worked over their gear for this special mission. Murdock and DeWitt had been in a conference half the morning trying to iron out the logistics. None of the men had a clue except the two words, Hong Kong, that Don Stroh had told them in his radio message.

“No way it could be Hong Kong,” Jaybird chirped. “Hell, that’s right in the middle of about a hundred million Chicoms. They going to sit twiddling their tits while we walk in and take something or somebody away from them? Hell no. Even a million rifles is a lot.”

“Bet he meant King Kong. He’s taking us to that new movie,” Franklin said.

“Oh, no, it got canceled before it was made,” Lampedusa said.

Murdock and DeWitt entered the compartment. There was no call to attention. This was the SEALs and no brass was present.

“So?” Ching called.

“You won’t believe this,” DeWitt said. “Yes, it is Hong Kong.” He waited for the cheers, and yells and catcalls to subside. “I know, I didn’t have a clue what we could do in Hong Kong in the middle of all those Chicoms.” He shook his head. “I’ll have the skipper tell you. He must understand it better than I do.”

Murdock snorted. “Not much to understand. Believing it is a different story. The mission is this. There’s a Panamanian-registered cruise ship in Hong Kong on a world cruise with almost twelve hundred Americans on board. The Chinese have stopped the ship from sailing, saying that there are spies onboard and they must interview each of the twelve hundred and detain any they consider to be spies. The interviews began yesterday. By the end of the day, they had made it all the way through twenty little old ladies with blue hair and ten older men with prostate trouble.

“Our job is to go in after dark, take out the Chinese security men onboard, get the ship under way, and without clearance or permission to help the crew sail her out of Hong Kong Bay and into the glorious South China Sea.”

“That’s all there is to it?” Bradford yelped.

“About the size of it. Any suggestions?”

“You give them a plan?” Howie asked.

“No. We were trying to figure out the odds and if it was a risk that the U.

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