Matchstick by Andy Holmes

Matchstick by Andy Holmes

Author:Andy Holmes [Holmes, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-07T16:00:00+00:00


Chapter Ten

917 was gaining on the bomber. The man was running down Market Street, throwing every trashcan, newspaper stand and object he could get his hands on to the ground behind him to obstruct his pursuer.

It did little to slow 917 down. He was in peak physical condition. He couldn’t recall the last time he exercised (outside of Alice Eve’s bedroom the night before) because his memory was a dark velvet of nothing. But, his ripcorded muscles burned with soreness that could only come from physical exertion. His heart pumped. His lungs went to work, feeding his body with oxygen. He catapulted over debris and maneuvered around the obstacles with ease. He would have the bomber in moments.

Sebastian Thorn would die before he was caught. There would be no trial, no humiliating TV coverage or police lecturing him. There was only one way he was going out, and that was with a bang. He reached into his pocket and wrapped his fingers around a hand grenade.

You really could buy anything on the dark web.

He prepared to pull the pin if the man chasing him caught him. But who was this guy? He hadn’t yelled out that he was a cop. He hadn’t waved a badge or cried out to civilians to get out of the way.

There was no time to think about it further. Up ahead, a stairwell opened in the sidewalk and descended into the city’s underbelly, where tracks traversed the length and breadth of the city. Trains moving people like sardines packed in a can arrived every two to five minutes. He needed a lucky break to ditch this guy and slip onto a train at the last minute, just like in the movies. If that failed…well, he could always pull the pin.

Sebastian dipped into the stairwell and took the steps three at a time, shoving people aside on his way down. When he got to the bottom of the platform, he glanced up the stairwell. Sunlight came down from above like a beacon. Shadow cut a diagonal line across the light halfway down the staircase.

The man chasing him shoved people out of the way as he clamored down the steps. Sebastian caught a glimpse of a handgun in the man’s hand, held low against his thigh.

The subway platform was full of people. News of the exploding cable car hadn’t reached down here yet, or it would have been pandemonium. Commuters stood around with and stared into the vast digital world tucked in the small windows of their smartphones. No one paid him any attention.

Tracks ran along both sides of the raised platform. Trains on the right traveled deeper into San Francisco. Trains on the left went under the ocean in a tunnel to the other side of the bay. Sebastian hated taking those trains out of the city. As the metal wheels squealed against the track, he imagined cracks in the tunnel above opening and the murky ocean above breaking through, crushing the train and all its inhabitants to death.



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