Rough Justice by Matt Hilton

Author:Matt Hilton [Matt Hilton]
Language: eng
Format: epub

TWENTY-FOUR

Po was at his most dangerous, his most uncompromising, when his loved ones were threatened, but he’d no qualms about unloading half a dozen bullets into a sumbitch shooting an assault rifle at him either. Two bullets in the shooter’s body hadn’t stopped him, and Po had to run for cover as the guy loosed a barrage of rounds in his direction. Keeping his head down would have been the sensible course of action, but once his switch was flipped Po was rarely sensible, if Tess’s opinion was to go by. In any case, he knew that if he’d stayed put now, it would have only stalled the inevitable. The shooter wasn’t alone, and wounded or not would have coordinated with the others to shoot every last one of them in camp to death. Po had taken the fight to the gunman, and in doing so had forced his would-be killer into a close quarters battle, alleviating the assault on Tess, Pinky, and the others. Targeting the assault rifle’s muzzle flashes Po zigzagged his way through the woods, shooting and drawing fire, and finally found a home for another bullet in the guy’s throat. Moving in, he stripped the assault rifle from lax fingers and shoved away Frank Lombardi’s silenced pistol in his belt, then made a swift check for other weapons: there were none, but Po grabbed extra ammunition magazines and shoved them in his pockets. He took the head-mounted goggles off the guy and checked them out. They worked a treat, but Po felt they were unnatural, and worse than that they interfered with his peripheral vision, so he slung them away. It didn’t occur to claim the dead man’s phone or radio, and Po was already moving through the woods, relying on his natural stealth to approach the other shooters at the head of the camp when he thought one or the other could come in handy. It was too late to return to the body; he continued on because already the battle lines had shifted.

Thirty feet away a figure slipped as silently as he did between the trees. He was sorely tempted to try to blast the figure with the liberated assault rifle, but that would make him a target of the sniper, and currently the latter enemy was the most dangerous to those in the camp. Pinky was running disruption with the hunting rifle, but his ammunition was limited, and soon the sniper would be able to pick and choose his targets unhindered. Po must engage the sniper and trust his partner and best friend to defend the camp. His resolution to take on the sniper was instantly challenged, because from the opposite side another gunman joined the fray. But Tess won him a few moments: she must’ve found the bottle of bourbon that had been passed round at supper and dumped it on the fire because suddenly it roared and Po was glad he hadn’t worn the night-vision goggles otherwise he’d have been blinded by the glare.

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