Imperial Stars: Family d'Alembert Book 1 by Goldin Stephen & Smith E.E. 'Doc'

Author:Goldin, Stephen & Smith, E.E. 'Doc' [Goldin, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2011-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Five more hikes proved uneventful, and the two of them began feeling very discouraged. But on the sixth evening following that conversation, at a place where the path passed close to a dense stand of trees on one side and a thick patch of underbrush on the other, their straining ears heard rustling sounds and their keen eyes caught the blur of movement. ‘Rube!’ Yvette whispered to her brother, and Jules nodded. Both were braced for action.

For concealment, the place the attackers had chosen was ideal – as the d’Alemberts had set it up to be. But in order to make their attack, the muggers would have to move – and, being of a relatively low echelon in the criminal world, they could not take effective precautions against their movements being detected. Also they had no idea whatsoever of how terribly fast their proposed quarries were.

At the first hint of activity, Yvette and Jules became lightning incarnate. Jules’ hat and swaggerstick hit the ground almost instantaneously, and Yvette’s tiara was right beside them. The two used their well-muscled legs as springs to catapult them in low dives, Jules to his side of the road and Yvette to hers.

Diving straight through a bush, Jules found himself in the center of a clump of five men. Four of them were in a tight configuration, with the fifth standing a short distance away. Having Jules’ powerful body come flying suddenly into their midst upset them no end. As he landed, Jules slapped the nearest man on the head – but gently, so as not to break his neck. As his momentum carried him still further forward, he grabbed the shirt of this first unconscious man and pulled him along. Then, rolling quickly to his knees, he picked his victim up and hurled him bodily at another man some three meters away. The second man, hit by the ninety-five kilo mass of his compatriot, staggered backwards and fell to the ground.

Jules, of course, had not stopped to watch the effect of his throw; what was most important to him was to keep moving, to do as much damage as quickly as possible and to present as small a target as he could. Springing to his feet, he jumped straight at the third man, who cringed reflexively. Jules’ powerful fist lashed out and struck his would-be assailant squarely in the solar plexus. The man whooshed and crumpled lifelessly to the ground. In the same motion, Jules spun, almost ballet-like, on one foot while, with the other, he kicked the fourth man in the face – not with his toe, but with the whole big flat sole of his boot. The impact crushed the man’s face in and rendered him instantly unconscious.

That made the score four down and one to go. But that one would be a little more difficult, Jules realized as he peered through the darkness at his remaining adversary; this one was a DesPlainian, by the look of him – the man who had obviously been intended to substitute for ‘Carlos Velasquez’.

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