Rage of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone

Author:William W. Johnstone [Johnstone, William W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

Seamas O’Boyle had crawled through the doorway into the warehouse and took long, painful seconds to pull himself upright. He staggered as he hurried to the small office cubicle where his boss held the woman captive. The long, oily locks of his jet-black hair hung in dirty disarray. He had a wild-eyed appearance when he burst through the door and confronted Sean O’Boyle.

“Well? Is it over, then?” O’Boyle asked, eyes glassy from drink.

“Yeah. Only, not like you’d expected, it ain’t. They’re all down. Every man-jack of them. That Smoke Jensen is a terror. An’ there was two of them.”

O’Boyle blanched. He didn’t think for even a second about using Sally Jensen as a hostage. “We’ve gotta get out of here, we do,” he blurted, coming unsteadily to his feet.

“There’s a back way,” Connor O’Fallon suggested.

“Damn it, man, don’t you think I know that?” O’Boyle snapped.

“We had best be takin' it, we had.”

“What about the woman?” Seamas Quern asked.

“Leave her. She’d only slow us down.”

“Yer the boss, Sean,” Quern allowed.

Quickly the trio left the office. Only they didn’t move quite fast enough. Their leather brogues made loud, clicking sounds on the hard oak planks of the warehouse floor. From the direction of the quayside door they heard a sharp exclamation.

“There they go, Smoke.”

Twin muzzle blooms winked in the darkened building. A bullet cracked past uncomfortably close to the ear of Sean O’Boyle. It did a great lot toward sobering him. He turned to run backward while he emptied the five shots in his diminutive .32 Smith and Wesson. Fired by a booze-soaked, frightened man, the small lead pellets struck at random, without doing harm.

Smoke Jensen fired again, to be rewarded by a startled cry when the .45 slug tore a gouge in Sean O’Boyle’s right ear. Smoke and Oliver began to run now, guided by the dim yellow glow of a lamp in the office. Smoke ignored the fleeing felons. Only one goal directed him.

He had to know the whereabouts of Sally. Would he find her still alive in that office? Anger and anxiety distracted him from the idea of apprehending the culprits. Chances were, he could find them later. First, he had to locate Sally and free her.

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