London Stormbird (A Tom Stroud Adventure Book 2) by Martin J Cobb

Author:Martin J Cobb [Cobb, Martin J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Grand Theft

Pietr walked casually up to the driver’s door of the truck holding a clipboard in his right hand resting in the crook of his arm. He reached up and tapped gently on the window to catch the driver’s attention once he saw Gennady similarly reaching the passenger door. The driver looked up from his phone and opened the door, “Kann ich Ihnen helfen?”

As the driver asked the question, Pietr dropped the clipboard to reveal an automatic gripped in his hand and pointing unwaveringly at the centre of the driver’s forehead.

“Vorsicht!” the driver’s mate shouted and his door was yanked open by Gennady holding another automatic.

“Please get into the rear compartment and keep your hands where I can see them at all times. You,” Pietr said looking at the passenger, “stay where you are.”

The driver climbed out of his seat and moved backwards into the rest compartment at the rear of the cab with Pietr following. A roll of gaffer tape appeared in Pietr’s hand with which he expertly bound the driver’s hands and legs together and then to each other with the driver huddled in a foetal position. He then bound the whole thing to the grab handle on the rear of the driver’s seat.

“Your turn,” he directed at the driver’s mate who dutifully clambered into the rear and was similarly trussed. Pietr and Gennady then climbed in to the front just as the driver’s phone on the dashboard rang. Gennady picked up and answered the call from the escort who apparently were now ready to leave. Pietr put the truck into gear and slowly edged out of the car park onto the main road heading South towards the highway to Linz and then Wels, their final destination. He checked his mirrors and easily spotted the escort Audi now directly behind them. A few kilometres down the road, just outside a hamlet called Bernascheksiedlung, he pulled the truck off the road into a long lay-by and, leaving the engine running, got out of the cab and walked to the rear of the trailer where he crouched down and appeared to inspect one of the inner tyres. Gennady got down from the cab and walked back to the escort vehicle, hands in pockets. The passenger window was lowered, and he explained that the driver was just checking something on the trailer. Pietr rose from his inspection and walked to the Audi, obviously to explain the brief stop. As the driver’s window came down, he pulled the automatic from his pocket and shot the driver in the head in one fluid motion. The look of astonishment on the other escort was short lived as his face disintegrated from the close-range shot from the automatic which had suddenly materialised in Gennady’s hands. Both Russians calmly walked back to the truck, climbed back in and drove off unhurriedly.

It was over an hour later when two off-duty members of the military contingent at the factory drove past the lay-by on their way into Linz and spotted the Audi with military number plates.

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