Hunting Evil by Chris Carter

Author:Chris Carter [Carter, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781471179549
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Published: 2019-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Fifty

Just like Captain Blake had feared, the first responders to the ‘code red’ dispatch call didn’t quite make it in time. The police unit had just turned the corner when they saw the place blow up and immediately ignite in flames right in front of their eyes.

‘Jesus!’ Officer Jordan shouted, slamming on the brakes and swerving hard left.

‘Oh my God!’ That was all the reply Officer Prescott could muster before her trembling hands shot to her mouth. This was only her second month as a sworn police officer.

Within a minute of Officers Jordan and Prescott getting there, five other police units arrived. Though they all tried, there was very little anyone could do other than keep the chaos of curious onlookers at a safe distance, watch the place burn and wait for the fire department to get there, which also didn’t happen fast enough.

The first fire engine only arrived at 8:26 p.m., eleven minutes after the bomb had gone off. The second and third ones arrived just seconds later. Twenty-one firefighters fought the blaze for exactly nine minutes and forty-nine seconds before the last of the flames was finally extinguished.

Smoke rose from the ashes in eerie plumes, sending a new, frightening mist into the Los Angeles night air. With it, came a moment of bewildering silence. A moment of realization and extreme sadness. A moment of utter fear, as it was suddenly understood that what had happened there had been no accident. The explosion that had enveloped the Whisky Athenaeum bar hadn’t come courtesy of a gas leak or an accident. This had unequivocally been the evil that men do.

The mist that rose from the torched drinking den also brought something else with it. Something that on that night, everyone who had gathered around had the displeasure of witnessing – a particular smell that savagely entered the nostrils and traveled through the nasal cavity like piercing shards of glass, scratching every internal wall until it finally reached the lungs. The power of the smell was so intense that it churned the stomachs of even the most seasoned of firefighters.

That was the smell of scorched human flesh.

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