Hunter Killer by James Rouch

Author:James Rouch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Intrigue, Fiction - Espionage, Espionage, Thriller, Fiction
ISBN: 9780821716625
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
Published: 1985-09-15T11:05:40.329000+00:00

The snow covering the island gave the landscape a strangely two-tone, two- dimensional effect. There were no greys, no shadings to give depth or texture to any object. After a few moments the weird monotony of the scene began to play tricks with his eyes. A log, or it might have been a rock protruding above the snow, almost seemed to be moving. Of course it couldn’t be, there was nothing alive out there, God had shut shop for the winter, even Clarence would find nothing to kill…

‘Come on.’ Revell didn’t think to, didn’t have time to, define what prompted him to jump and stride over the close-packed casualties; but intuition or some sixth sense told him that shapeless dark hummock he’d dismissed as a log was one of his men. His boot rapped against an improvised splint and elicited a groan from the man he’d almost stepped on, then with Andrea close behind he was out of the room and taking the stairs three at a time. He was shouting for the medic even as he raced for the front door.

At ground level everything looked very different, but he had a bearing and snow sprayed ahead of him as he ran. There was an icy feeling inside him that had nothing to do with the cold.

‘The lieutenant thought you ought to know about it.’ There was an intense cramping pain in Clarence’s fingers and toes as circulation gradually returned. He could feel the soup in his stomach radiating warmth through his body, and breathed in the steam that rose from the can he held clumsily between clenched fists, not feeling the hot metal burning into his blue knuckles.

‘And that was all you saw? Just three men and a woman moving supplies of some sort into the old tower.’

‘We tracked them from the boat. It looked like an old wreck, as if it shouldn’t still be afloat, but it was, and its motor sounded alright. After they’d got out of sight we took a chance and had a look inside. We had to give them a bit of a start, there’s not much cover up that end of the island.’ ‘Did you find anything?’

‘Nothing. I got the impression the hull and mechanics had been well maintained and the rest of it allowed to go to hell. Funny, you’d think anyone who owned a big yacht would have taken care of it.’

‘Can’t get the petrol, no point.’ Hyde had been listening. ‘There must be thousands of beautiful boats rotting away along this coast.’

‘But then why look after the engine, why keep it in good running order? Sergeant, take Ripper and two others and find Lieutenant Hogg. If he hasn’t got positive proof that bunch are harmless -1 don’t know, maybe a group from a university or something - then go in and grab them. Something about that set-up isn’t right, and I want to know what.’

‘I’m getting something, Major.’ York settled his headphones more snugly. ‘This is weird. My gear isn’t directional so I can’t tell where, but I’d say somebody on this island is transmitting.

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