Poison Justice by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2013-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

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John Rollins feared the future, saw the shortening tomorrows like a comet flaming out, crashing to Earth, pictured himself squashed beneath the rock. At the moment, he couldn’t decide if he felt more intimidated by the portraits of the attorney general and President of the United States hung on the wall behind the director’s desk, or the former Marine gunnery sergeant appearing to him like a grim picture of fire and brimstone in the burning flesh. All seemed to bore dagger eyes into his soul, in search of hidden dark truths, the eyes glaring without blinking as Rollins sat in the leather chair, waiting for the director to get off the phone. Whoever Worthy was speaking to only seemed to darken his mood. The director’s stare was feeling to Rollins as if the man was on the edge of learning what would most certainly lead to prison bars slamming shut on his backside.

Rollins heard, “And you are? And you come by this information how? Or are you just guessing, maybe have your own agenda, lady?”

Rollins didn’t like the sound of that, not one damn bit. The director’s knuckles were popping as if he wanted to crush the phone into dust in a fist he imagined could crush a grown man’s entire skull and face. There were stories about Worthy, tales from Gulf I, still circulating in the halls of Justice. The younger bucks practically bowed down and kissed the ground before this crew-cut bulldog who paced more muscle than a young Arnold. The Medal of Honor winner was a devout Catholic, a family man and no-nonsense by the book.

Rollins felt his blood pressure rise, pulsing in his eardrums.

Two stiff belts before leaving for the office, and getting bogged down in traffic hadn’t done much to calm the storm inside Rollins. The initial crime scene reports in his lap perused, he had just learned from FBI agents at the lodge that all eight men assigned to guard Marelli were dead. Peary and his killing band had apparently been slain themselves in the woods, not far from the lodge. There were also three unidentified victims strewed in the massacre at the lodge, apparently having engaged in a firefight with suspect or suspects undetermined, but blown to smithereens by ordnance that was not part and parcel of Justice Department operations. The mystery compounded, but Rollins had a good idea who was behind all the mayhem, which was why he’d put out an APB on SAC Matt Cooper. Cutting the red tape to dump the man on the FBI’s Most Wanted list might prove a tough sell, but he’d been pondering the problem all night, certain his litany of rationales would pan out. He would sway the director to have Cooper hunted down like a wild animal. Then there was the gnawing fear—no, terror—that Brognola would pull through, point the blame in his direction. It would be easy enough to add two and two on that score, since he was responsible for marching the man into the ambush in the first place.

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