Killmaster 225 - Holy War by Nick Carter

Author:Nick Carter [Carter, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

Rogov slowed the car and frowned. “What’s that?”

“I’d say it looks rather like a fire, wouldn’t you?” Lundy said.

“Yes, but what’s it doing in the middle of the road?”

“Well, you know India, old sport,” Lundy said. “These things happen.”

Rogov and Lundy were proceeding east to the kalighat square along the main thoroughfare. They were on their way to the temple to confer with Pandit Mukerjee about the Takore problem. Rogov drove. He was proud of his driving skill and always insisted on taking the wheel when he was in a car.

The fire blazed where the avenue entered the square, effectively blocking it to all vehicular traffic. The dark, blocky shape outlined at the heart of the conflagration was the panel truck that had been parked on the corner prior to the raid.

Uncle Topee had done his work well. The stolen truck had been rigged with a thermite bomb by Carter. Uncle Topee drove it to the square, parked, and waited. When Arum bombed the gates and the bus began its attack, Topee started the truck and drove it into the middle of the street, blocking both lanes. He disconnected the hot wired ignition, stopping the truck dead. He activated the timed detonator, preset to a sixty-second delay. The red light came on, indicating that the incendiary device was alive and ticking.

Topee put his old bones into high gear as he climbed down from the cab and hurried away from the truck. One minute elapsed and the bomb blew.

Uncle Topee did not slow his pace, nor did he look back at the thermite inferno engulfing the truck. Methodically he trudged to the nearest side street, where his car was parked. Not that it was exactly his car. It had been stolen too. That was the Takore way.

He started the car and drove away, threading through a twisty maze of back streets and alleys. The only decent road into the square was now blocked by the blazing truck. It would prove quite a roadblock for any police interlopers.

Eventually, Uncle Topee’s car emerged from the complex labyrinth of alleys onto a main road far removed from the scene of the action. He pointed the nose of the car toward the hideaway and drove there without further incident, exiting the scene and any future action.

Rogov and Lundy were lucky. Had they arrived a few minutes earlier, they would have been inside the temple when the Killmaster’s crowd lowered the boom. But they didn’t think of themselves as lucky when they saw the burning truck and heard the shouts and explosions from the kalighat. Rogov killed the lights, pulled over to the curb, and shut down the engine. He and Lundy got out.

The truck had just about burned itself out, but the heat was still intense.

The truck was a gutted, charred shell of smoldering black metal. Patches of flaming gasoline sizzled on the blacktop, and the intersection was littered with shards of metal and glass.

The two men gave the blaze a wide berth. They found a sheltered vantage point across the street from where the main gate had been.

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