Marvel Novel Series 04 - Captain America - Holocaust For Hire by Joseph Silva

Author:Joseph Silva
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 0671820869
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1979-05-16T07:00:00+00:00

“I have to.”

“No, what you have to do is remain here. You’re in no condition to—”

“But my father. I have to help you—”

“No.” Captain America put his gloved hand on the girl’s shoulder. “At the risk of stating the obvious, Caroline,” he said, “let me point out that you’ve been through a very rough night. You trekked miles in a near blizzard, after having been attacked by a vicious guard dog. You nearly froze, and it’s a miracle that your frostbite isn’t any worse. Dr. Bensen says that unless you get a lot of rest right now you’re running the risk of lots more complications.”

“So long as my father’s a prisoner there, I don’t care what—”

“Trust me, Caroline. Let me run the risks.”

She looked into his tanned face, into the determined blue eyes behind the mask. “It’s just . . . I don’t want to let him down . . .”

“You’ve done more than most people would have,” he told her. “I’ll take over from here.”

She sank back against the pillows of the narrow bed in the small spare bedroom. It was a simple room, but to the girl it seemed a great deal more pleasant than almost any room she’d ever been in. “Okay,” she said. “I know something about you. If anyone can save my father from . . . from that murderous crew at the chalet . . . it’s you.”

“Any idea who’s running the operation?”

“Yes,” she replied. “I . . . I’ve never seen him . . . but my father has . . . many times. He’s . . . a terrible man. They call him . . . the Red Skull.”

Cap’s fingers tightened on her shoulder. “Yes, that’s who I thought was behind this business,” he said grimly.

“You know him then?”

A bitter smile touched Captain America’s lips. “All too well, Caroline,” he said. “He and I have been opponents many times over the years. He’s the most ruthless man I’ve ever met. Yet he’s clever. There’ve been times when I was sure I’d defeated him, even times when I was convinced he was dead. He always manages to come back, to strike again.”

“He . . . from what I could learn from my father . . . the Red Skull is planning something truly terrible this time,” she said. “You do know what sort of weapons my father has been working on, don’t you?”

“Yes. Those weapons, Caroline, have been used over the last few months to destroy entire cities.”

The girl raised a hand to her face and pressed her fingertips into her cheekbone. “My fault in a way,” she said, on the edge of tears. “All that death and ruin. Father let that man use him . . . because he was afraid for me. I told him it didn’t matter, that we shouldn’t let those weapons be used.” She shook her head from side to side. “I don’t know . . . I wish he hadn’t even developed them at all. There doesn’t seem to be any decent way to employ weapons like that.

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