Devil's Haircut by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath [Sisavath, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-10T22:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

“Claire’s right,” Jeremy said. “The only way into the compound without setting off alarms is through the front gate. There’s no way around that.”

“What about the water?” Keo asked. “On the other side of the island?”

“You mean, like swim to the island?”

“That’s exactly what I mean.”

“She’s right about that, too. There are guards watching the island 24/7, not to mention the snipers in the towers. There are four of them on the four points of the island. Plus the foot patrols.”

“Are they good?”

“Who?”

“The ones in the towers.”

“I dunno. No one’s ever tried to go onto the island without permission.”

“How many guards per tower?”

“Two at night and one in the daytime, at all times.”

“Why only one in the daytime?”

“Because you don’t fall asleep in the daytime. You do at night, so there’s always one alert guard up there. Or that’s the idea, anyway.”

Keo went silent for a moment, replaying all the recon images he’d studied of the compound back in his head. Finally, he said, “So it’s the front gate or nothing.”

“Yes.” Jeremy nodded.

They were inside one of the clinic’s rooms in the back. The door was closed, and the only light came from the green glow stick resting on a counter. Keo stood on one side of the door with Rita on the other, and Claire and Jeremy sitting on an examination reclining table, their legs dangling off the side. They sat very close together, like two lovers wasting away a boring Sunday. A blue dentist chair, partially covered in tarp, glowed a sickly aqua color in one corner.

“What’s in the warehouse?” Keo asked.

Jeremy looked back at him. “I don’t know.”

“Not even a clue?”

The young man shook his head. “My part of security doesn’t extend onto the island. But you can say that about a lot of us. I can count on one hand the number of people with access to that warehouse.”

Great. Why didn’t Claire seduce one of those guys instead?

“But you can get us in there?” Keo asked.

“Into the compound,” Jeremy said. “But not onto the island. You’ll have to do that by yourselves.” He looked over at Rita before returning to him. “There’s just the two of you?”

“The smaller the number, the less risks,” Keo said. “But we have friends waiting outside to lend a hand, if we need it.”

Keo thought about adding, And an air force waiting to bomb the shit out of your friends in the compound if necessary, but decided that was probably not something that would help his cause with the Bucky.

“How are you going to get us inside?” Rita was asking Jeremy.

“Things are fluid these days,” Jeremy said. “Personnel is constantly being reassigned, rotations changing on a daily basis depending on need. No one really knows where they’ll be the next day or how long they’ll stay there. Everyone’s on their toes, and I think you know why.”

Keo nodded but didn’t say anything.

“I can get you clothes,” Jeremy continued, “and walk you through the front gates. After that…”

“We’ll be on our own,” Keo finished for him.

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