Rebellious Son by Joe Goldberg

Author:Joe Goldberg [Goldberg, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.E. Goldberg Group, LLC

Specter had watched the boy over the weeks take the same scooter from his home, use it to pick up some packages at the cargo ship, and deliver them to the warehouse. Each time he parked the scooter inside the warehouse near barrels of chemicals. The delivery times could vary, sometimes by an hour, which was an issue.

During the previous night, Specter had placed some Semtex and a detonator attached to the cellular phone on the lithium ion battery under the seat of the scooter parked behind the boy’s house. Once it was parked inside the warehouse, Specter would activate the bomb manually, rather than use a timer. The explosion would set off the barrels of chemicals, which would also explode.

The warehouse would burn down. Mission accomplished.

Now nestled in the woods near his next target, Specter looked through a gap in the trees at the warehouse on the far side of a two-lane road, waiting for the scooter to arrive.

He expected everything to work out as he had planned, but when the scooter arrived his mind went blank. Something was wrong. He watched the driver park outside the warehouse too far away to set off the barrels. He blinked several times, then he understood. It was driven by someone he didn’t recognize.

“Oh no!” he screamed.

Specter jumped up, looked in every direction, then ran through the brush and trees. He stood to the edge of the road, waiting for trucks to pass. Sweat started to pour off his face and his breathing increased. When a gap opened, he took the chance and crossed the road.

When he reached the scooter, he shoved it off its stand and rolled it into the warehouse. He dropped it on the floor by the barrels with a crash. A dozen men busily loading pallets of bags onto the trucks inside watched the old man run out of the door.

They shouted and followed after him. Specter’s heart felt like it was about to beat out of his chest. With the strength in his legs failing, he hurried across the road without looking. Trucks swerved and horns blared as he reached the other side. He fumbled for the phone in his pocket. When he found it, he pushed speed dial.

The Semtex exploded with the sound of thunder. The concussive force knocked him forward into the trees. More explosions followed, with strange hollow booms, sending debris through the collapsing warehouse walls as fire roared out of the openings. Black smoke billowed into the blue sky.

Specter grunted to his feet and staggered through the trees, looking for a way back to the main path. Panic rushed over him when he realized he did not know which way to go. Tightness gripped his chest, and as he gulped in the air, he became dizzy. He thrashed wildly at the bushes and low-hanging branches of the trees, toppling to the ground several times when he tripped over roots.

He finally emerged from the woods onto a path lining the nature reserve, dirty, sweating. and panting.

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