Executioner.067.Beirut Payback.1984 by Pendleton Don

Author:Pendleton, Don [Pendleton, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Bob Collins awoke with a start and reached for the .45 automatic he always wore in a shoulder holster. He relaxed when he realized Also Randolph was the man shaking him awake. Collins sat up on the cot in their “office” and blinked the sleep from his eyes.

He and Randolph were partners and sort of friends, CIA agents who had risen through the ranks to find themselves stuck with the worst assignment of all.

“What the hell is it?” The sleep had been fitful but welcome just the same, a respite from Hell.

Collins and Randolph had not only been stuck with the undesirable job, but were right smack in the middle of it and there was no escape at all.

“Wake up.” Randolph shook him some more.

“We’ve got trouble.” Collins reoriented himself to the CIA monitoring station: the basement of a closed vegetable business owned by a Company front in the Christian sector of Beirut. Like living in a dungeon, Collins thought again. Then he shook the depression and glowered.

“Okay, Also. Trouble. Trouble in Hell.

Give it a name.” “Bolan,” Randolph replied, and that woke Coffins up all the way. Randolph moved to lean his bulk against the battered table in the corner where they kept the scrambler phone to the embassy. He lit a cigarette. “Just got it. Thought you’d want to know.” Collins turned on the hot plate to heat water for instant coffee. The cellar room felt as claustrophobic as ever.

“And I suppose our orders are to keep this sector wired for public enemy number one. his “You got it. Make that world enemy.” “I know the standing orders on the guy,” Collins grouched. “Shoot on sight. I wonder what the hell Mack Bolan is doing in Beirut, now that he’s put himself against the KGB.. They’re all over this rathole, sure, but nothing that hasn’t been going on for a long, long time. Maybe our buddies in Mossad know.

Randolph grunted and lit another butt.

“Buddies, uh-huh. Depending on which way the wind is blowing out of Washington and Tel Aviv this hour. And I don’t think we’re going to be such buddies with Mossad after you hear the rest of what I just got$91 Collins spooned coffee into a cup, added hot water and stiffed.

“So tell me, Also. We’ve got to hit the streets in the middle of everything that’s going to bust loose today, keep our cover intact and monitor the fighting and not get killed. Now we’ve got Mack Bolan and orders to terminate a guy the Vietcong, the Mafia and all the terrorists in the world couldn’t kill. A gp tilde y who was on our side until a few months ago and maybe he still is. And you say you’ve got something else. was Collins looked at his partner. “Maybe we ought to pack a suitcase and slip out and go home, Also. You ever thought of that?

“What the hell brought us into this, anyway? A few months ago this guy Bolan would’ve come to us for help.

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