Jungle Kill by Jim Eldridge

Author:Jim Eldridge [Eldridge, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781405247801
Amazon: 1405247800
Publisher: Egmont UK
Published: 2010-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

12

Mitch watched as Gaz slid out towards the hotel.

On this side he could see six armed men keeping guard, but only one of them really seemed to be alert. Three of them were playing with dice, while two others sat on the fallen trunks of trees, their rifles held casually by their sides. The sixth stood up and paced around, jerking his rifle this way and that, aiming it into the jungle.

Mitch shifted his binoculars to follow Gaz’s progress. As Gaz had said, there was lots of cover. But in a few places there were just open areas of grass. If Gaz was spotted moving across these open areas, the trigger-happy bandits would open fire and the operation would be blown. The firing would bring the rest of the bandits out of the hotel.

As Mitch weighed up the situation, he found himself fingering the trigger of his assault rifle, ready to swing into action. If anything went wrong, he was determined to do everything he could to make sure Gaz wasn’t killed.

He kept switching his attention backwards and forwards between the armed bandits and Gaz.

Mitch prided himself on being able to move covertly, but as he watched Gaz, he had to admit that the Geordie was a real expert. Gaz seemed to slide from bush to bush, tree to tree, keeping flat, using no rapid movements, but at the same time progressing so swiftly that there was no time for anyone to get a fix on him. It was the nearest Mitch had ever come to seeing a human snake on the move.

Gaz reached the building without an alarm being raised and slid up to the window where the corrugated iron sheeting had come away at one corner. Slowly, Gaz rose up from the ground, his back against the wall, his eyes on the armed guards.

The guards were still in the same positions as before: one reasonably alert, with his assault rifle at the ready, three playing dice, two lounging around and chatting.

Gaz turned and began to prise the iron sheet apart, but as he did so Mitch saw one of the men suddenly stand up and raise his gun.

Gaz must have seen him too, because he dropped out of sight behind a shrub.

Had the man heard something? Seen a movement out of the corner of his eye?

Mitch moved the barrel of his rifle so that it was now aimed at the man who’d got up. His finger was poised on the trigger. To shoot now would blow the mission, but so would letting Gaz be captured.

The man who’d got up said something to the others, and then headed for the main entrance of the hotel. There was no urgency in his movements. Maybe he just wanted to get something to eat or drink.

Mitch’s attention switched back to the window. There was a pause as Gaz waited for the man to get inside the hotel entrance. Then he rose up slowly and quietly again. Mitch saw him push the transmitter in between the corrugated iron and the window, and then he dropped down out of sight.

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