Juliette's Space Race by Randal Sloan

Author:Randal Sloan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub

CHAPTER FIVE

The Competition

Quite a number of racing teams had signed up for the Space Tech race. Most legitimately intended to compete for the prize fair and square. Let the best team win was their motto. However, one team had a completely different attitude. The team was owned by the CEO of a tech company that had been sponsoring a race team for the last few years. Martin Wilson had come into the position at the company with the premature death of his father and he just couldn’t handle the responsibility. He knew the root of his problem; he had been getting his way his whole life and the business world just didn’t work like that. He knew a lot of their best customers had left when he tried to take a hard line with them. He still felt he had been right to do so; it wasn’t his fault they didn’t see it his way.

As a result of that and his insane ability to spend money, especially with his race team, his company was in financial trouble and he was determined he was going to get the prize money. He was willing to do whatever it took to win, no matter what he had to do. Thus, he had no intention of competing fairly. The hundred million dollar prize wouldn’t be enough to save his company, but it would be enough for him to have a little money to live on until he could sell off the pieces.

He was meeting with a couple of seedy-looking individuals in a nearby bar. “Did your man get the defective field generator into the Reynolds ship?”

“Yeah, he got it. It should fail somewhere halfway into the course. By the time they get the backup generator installed, they’ll have lost way too much time to catch up. Also, the Jackson team we’ve got covered. Our man there implanted an explosive device in their control run that will completely disable them when you transmit the activate code. That just leaves the Jones-Abernathy ship. We’ve got a man working on it. I’ll let you know when it’s done. The rest of the riffraff we can ignore.”

“What about the Caldwell ship? With her mother having access to the Space Tech wealth, she could throw money at it if she wanted to.”

“Nah, you need to see the ship. Apparently the girl designed it herself. We managed to capture a pic of it the one time they took it out of their hangar.” He flashed up a VR image of it. “It’s so small it’s barely within the specs for the competition. I guess they’ve got the girl spending her allowance on it or something.” They both laughed at that. “I figure she’ll finish last if she makes it through the whole course. She’s never even flown in a competition.”

“Ok, you get that last job done and we’ve got it, I think. You’ve got the insurance package waiting, right?”

“Oh, yeah. If anyone does get through to that point, they’ll never know what hit them.

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