Labyrinth of Terror by Richard Wenzel

Author:Richard Wenzel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: murder, terrorism, middle east, medicine, europe, bioterrorism, suspense adventure
Publisher: Richard Wenzel

Chapter 11

Sasha Kontos looked down coldly at the man she had just disabled with her spring-loaded dart. When he dropped the thirty-eight caliber revolver, she quickly gave it to Diana, who calmly fired two shots into the wall of the barn, assuming that Ata and Elaina would be listening. Soon thereafter, the sisters heard the dissipating roar of a propeller plane leaving the area. A furtive peek through the windows of the barn revealed no trace of either Ata or Elaina.

The would-be assassin had begged for help, acutely fearing his own death. To his horror, he could barely move his muscles and could sense only intermittent flickers of activity in his arms, wrists, and fingers. He could speak, but his voice slowly became garbled over the next ten minutes. His eyes revealed his fear, and he was muttering questions that neither woman could understand, but he seemed to express bewilderment, confusion, and terror.

Having no remorse for the stranger on the ground, Sasha knew that within minutes he would develop blurred vision after his pupils dilated widely and that his swallowing would become difficult and then impossible. This would be followed by the welling of his own saliva in the back of his throat, gagging him relentlessly. Later he would be seeing double, the result of new defects within his cranial nerves carrying erratic messages from the brain to the eye muscles and leading to a total loss of coordinated eye movement.

In the end, she imagined, his core body temperature could sink to a hypothermic range, his heartbeat would accelerate and become feeble, and his blood pressure would go through erratic cycles before plummeting in an inexorable downhill descent. Thereafter, his breathing would lose all rhythm, become shallow and weak, and chaotically come to a full stop as the nerves in the muscles of his chest wall and diaphragm ceased to communicate their messages to inhale.

Pushing the man’s right hip while reaching into his back pocket, Diana removed the stranger’s wallet in order to delete all traces of his identification and took what she estimated to be 10,000 euros. “Probably his prepaid reward for eliminating us,” she said bitterly. She then reached into the pockets of his shirt, found a passport and passed it to Sasha.

“Although the passport is Hungarian, the name of the man is listed as Kasamorov – probably Russian,” said Sasha. In his jacket, they also found keys to a silver Mercedes sedan parked behind the barn. The sisters decided to use the man’s car, since they were sure the police would have a description of the Volvo that brought them from the port at Ostend into the countryside.

Leaving their victim intermittently gurgling on the dirt floor of the dimly lit barn, the sisters failed to notice the cell phone that had fallen out of its carrier, now resting by his left hand.

The two women exited the side door of the barn, walked briskly along the building’s edge through ankle-high grass, and entered the Mercedes, Sasha slipping into the driver’s seat.

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