Red Templar by Paul Christopher

Author:Paul Christopher
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Action & Adventure, General, Suspense, Historical, Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780451236302
Publisher: Signet Book
Published: 2012-01-03T00:00:00+00:00

“Yuriya kul’tur pyli sluzhby,” said Eddie, grinning from ear to ear.

“You got me. I still don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”

“The sign says, ‘Yuri’s Crop-dusting Service,’” Eddie replied. He grabbed the hammer from the box of fishing tackle and stepped out of the boat. He climbed up the riverbank, heading for the barn. Holliday was right behind him.

Reaching the barn, Holliday saw that what he thought had been a dirt road was actually a short runway, less than two hundred yards long. Eddie stood at the barn doors. They were locked securely with a large brass padlock. The hasp, however, was screwed on the outside of the door, and it took only a few whacks with the hammer before the hasp had splintered away from the door. Holliday looked around. There was a cluster of farm buildings in the distance but they were a good mile or so away.

Eddie hauled open the barn doors and stared. “¡Absolutamente perfecto!”

To Holliday it looked like a biplane left over from the First World War. The rust-colored primer and mottled brown paint on the aluminum hull were worn down to the metal in some places, and the fat rubber tricycle tires were totally bald. Spray nozzles lined the trailing edge of the lower wings, and there was an even larger nozzle directly behind the single, four-bladed rotary engine.

“What is it?” Holliday asked.

Eddie stepped up to the aircraft, running his big hand over the engine nacelle like a man examining a racehorse. “She is a Kukuruznik, a Maize Worker. Her real designation is an Antonov An-2. They used to use them a lot in Cuba but now there are only a few. There is even one of them in the Air Force Museum in Habana.”

“I’ll bet,” said Holliday. “Can you fly it?”

“Pero por supuesto, mi amigo—of course I can fly it.”

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