Mercury Revolts by Robert Kroese

Author:Robert Kroese [Kroese, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Culain Press
Published: 2014-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-one

Grand Rapids, Michigan; August 2016

Zion Johnson made his way slowly across the rooftop of the Vanden Heuvel Building, flanked by four heavily armed men in gear that was designed to camouflage them against the gray gravel of the roof. He was moving slowly because he was using crutches, and in his left hand he carried a heavy black duffel bag. His right knee was completely immobilized by a cast, and with every movement pain shot through the whole right side of his body. It wasn’t hot out, but droplets of sweat were pouring down his brow. Zion Johnson wasn’t big on pain medication, particularly when he was working.

He could have had someone else handle this part of the job, but Zion Johnson wanted to see the mission through. He’d made sure that the bomb had fallen into the hands of Chaos Faction, and prevented the army truck that the terrorists had inexplicably driven across the country from being pulled over by any law enforcement agencies. With any luck, they’d driven to the coordinates he’d provided and were preparing the detonated the Brimstone bomb at the agreed-upon time. He mentally went over the note he had left them for the hundredth time, concluding for the hundredth time that the instructions could not possibly have been any clearer: the blueprints of the Vanden Heuvel were merely a ruse; they were to be left somewhere near Grand Rapids to lead the authorities to think that the terrorists had planned to attack the city. Meanwhile, the bomb would actually detonate harmlessly several miles away, scaring the shit out of the city’s half million residents but causing few, if any, casualties.

Sure, there had been that frustrating Internet exchange with the one called Nisroc, but Zion Johnson was fairly certain Nisroc was the dimmest of the group. That Izbazel didn’t seem so bad. Yes, he had bungled the truck hijacking, but everything had turned out OK. Except for all those dead men, of course, but they knew what they were getting into. Well, not exactly what they were getting into. It’s not like they knew they were guarding an illegal nuclear bomb whose owners had plotted to hand it over to terrorists. But they knew, in general, the sort of thing they were getting into. Anyway, that whole episode was the result of a simple misunderstanding. Izbazel had thought the men in the truck were just going to hand over the bomb without a fight. Zion Johnson had made a point of telling Nisroc the bomb would be heavily guarded, but he hadn’t specifically told him that the guards would shoot at anyone trying to take the bomb. It was his own mistake, really. He’d have to communicate more clearly in the future.

This line of thinking let Zion Johnson to wonder, for the one-hundred-and-first time, whether his note had been clear enough. Realizing that he was engaged in a circular train of thought, Zion Johnson focused on his mantra.

Superior attitude, superior state of mind.

Superior attitude, superior state of mind.

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