Marvel Classic Novels--Wolverine by Marc Cerasini

Author:Marc Cerasini
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

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ZIV drove like a maniac. The van lurched from side to side as he veered around what few other cars were out on the snow-swept, forest-lined highway. Every tight turn hurled Wai Ying and Logan back and forth in the van’s cramped rear compartment, which was packed with high-tech equipment. Wai Ying stayed near the front, while Logan huddled near the back doors, glancing occasionally out the windows into the speed-blurred nightscape.

They were already an hour away from Pritikin’s mansion and clear of the snowstorm, but Ziv hadn’t slowed down, not once. Wai Ying clutched a padded seat mounted on a glide track in front of the computers and monitors and glanced forward to see where they were going. They were skirting the St. Petersburg city limits, taking a less traveled route to Pulkovo Airport. Unable to hide her surprise, she said to Ziv, “Aren’t we going back to the hotel?”

“Nyet,” Ziv snapped. “Too dangerous.”

“But our clothes,” she protested. “Our passports—”

“Already on the plane,” Ziv said, swerving around a slow-moving, boxy-looking economy car.

Wai Ying leaned into the van’s rocking motion, then turned her accusatory glower on Logan. “Your idea?”

Logan shrugged. “Didn’t want to wear out our welcome. Figured no matter how it went, we’d better get on the road.”

“Good point,” she said. “Ziv, whatever intel you downloaded, I’ll need to copy it to my laptop before we leave.”

“Already done,” he said. “Your computer’s back in its case, near the rear door. Once we get to the airport, we’ll frag the van and analyze the data in the air.”

It took Wai Ying a second to parse that. “We?”

“That’s right,” Ziv said. “I can’t stay here after this fiasco. This was supposed to be a low-profile recon. I guess I ought to be grateful you didn’t torch the place.”

From the back, Logan quipped, “If I’d had more time—”

“Shut up,” Ziv said. “I called in favors to get you into that party. Now my contacts are as good as burned—and my pension along with them.”

“I’d almost feel sorry for ya if I didn’t know you had four tons of gold bullion stashed in Zurich.”

Ziv laughed. “It’s not worth much to me if I’m not alive to spend it, comrade. So wherever the wind takes you next, it takes me as well.”

“The more the merrier,” Logan said. “Speaking of which, we’re being followed.”

Checking the rearview, Ziv replied, “I don’t see anyone.”

“Neither do I,” Wai Ying said, looking past Logan out the rear windows. “There’s no one behind us.”

“I didn’t say it was a car,” Logan replied. “There’s a tunnel up ahead. Stop in there and kill the lights.”

The van passed into a dark, two-lane tunnel carved through a jutting mound of gray mountainside. In the middle of the tunnel, Ziv brought the van to a halt and turned off its lights, as Logan had instructed. Logan picked up Wai Ying’s laptop case and handed it to Ziv. “Get clear of the van and take cover past the far end of the tunnel, just in case.

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