Executioner 227 - Blood Circle by Blood Circle

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

There was a moment of silence while the wheels turned in Kurtzman’s mind. “It tells me Baibakov has at least half a platoon of hard-core soldiers at his disposal. I’m betting the .44 Magnum revolvers and the Barrett .50s are personal weapons.”

Bolan nodded. “What else do you notice?”

“I’m way ahead of you. He acquired only a relatively small quantity of plastic explosive. More than enough to make a couple of car bombs, but nowhere near enough to blow up anything of major significance. I think the plastique is more for tactical use than as their primary weapon. Baibakov has outfitted his people like soldiers going off to a war. I don’t think they’re planning on blowing up the White House or the United Nations Building. My bet is they intend to pull off some kind of military-style raid, and they’re going to do it in strength. That’s assuming, of course, that Baibakov hasn’t picked up a few tons of ammonia fertilizer and some trucks we haven’t heard about. I also don’t believe all his men are Red Falcons. I’d bet he’s picked up some Russian shooters from the mafiya who are looking for action. He’d want only the best, though. I’d expect ex-military men who are fluent in English.”

Bolan smiled. Those were his thoughts exactly. “I have more, but it’s not good. Baibakov has contacted the Russian mafiya in the capital.”

Kurtzman sighed. “Well, that was to be expected. It still doesn’t help much. D.C. is a big city, and it must have hundreds of legitimate targets for the Red Falcons.”

“I have one other piece of information. It’s a strange one. Pushkin mentioned that Baibakov had made some sort of cryptic inquiry about Vermont.”

For a moment the line was silent. “Vermont?”

“Vermont.”

Kurtzman sounded puzzled. “You mean the state.”

“That’s right. Run that through your short-list and see if it cross-references with anything.”

“Hold on.” The Executioner waited while Kurtzman crunched data, and then he heard the magic word. “Bingo.”

“What have we got?”

“We have Eudora McCain, United States senator from the Green Mountain State.”

A line drew down between Bolan’s eyebrows. “She sounds vaguely familiar.”

Kurtzman punched more computer keys. “She red-flagged immediately when I cross-referenced Vermont. She’s one of the individual targets near the top of our short-list.”

“What makes her a priority?”

“She’s always been very cause oriented, and in the past year the fighting in Bosnia has risen to the top of her agenda.”

Bolan frowned. “So she joined the peace bandwagon.”

“Well, she actually seems more intellectually honest than that. Senator McCain went to Bosnia early in 1995 and toured with a Senate subcommittee investigative team. She saw one of the mass graves being excavated outside of a Croatian village. It had nearly a hundred civilian bodies in it, most of them women and children. Apparently McCain was profoundly affected by it. Ever since her return to the United States, she has been huge in spearheading the effort to send U.S. peacekeeping troops in to stop the fighting. She defends it nearly every day on the floor of the Senate.

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