Sentinel by Mark Greaney

Author:Mark Greaney [Greaney, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00+00:00

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Duff, Kaku, and Gideon all dropped to their knees in the turbine gallery, startled as bright lights took away the shadows they’d been moving through, and loud mechanical noises filled the air.

To their left the turbines began spinning, the whine growing by the second.

They’d checked the fifth turbine at the end of the room and found the third device but no Russians, so they’d backtracked towards a stairwell door they’d passed on the south wall of the room, halfway down. Their objective had been to go back upstairs to the control room, then escort the entire force out of here via the warren of tunnels, ladders, or, if the electricity returned, the elevators.

They’d just arrived at the stairwell and the big elevator next to it when the power suddenly came back on, and instantly Kaku rose and hit the call button.

From the multilevel map he’d been given in the control room, Duff thought this elevator might lead to the same level of the power house he’d left the rest of the delegation on, as would the ladder, but this gallery was several stories high, as was the generator gallery above, so the ladder would take much longer.

Over the sound of the turbines and the rushing water, Duff heard the elevator car lowering, and he stood with his shoulder next to the door as he covered to the west, and Gideon covered to the east, his own shoulder against the elevator door, while Kaku stood in the middle, watching over the rest of the gallery, waiting for the door to open.

Duff felt the door begin to slide up; he heard a shout of alarm from Kaku behind him and then a furious exchange of gunfire just yards away. Swiveling into the car, whipping his rifle up, he saw he was not alone.

Two men, one white and in combat gear, and the other Black and in a RIVCOM uniform, stood there just at the door and within striking distance.

Both men held rifles; the Ghanaian’s gun was down but the Russian’s was up and had just fired, hitting Kaku in the chest and knocking him down to the turbine gallery floor, but both Duff and Gideon had shifted into the car so close to the pair that no one could get their muzzles on another target.

Duff charged closer as he swung around, hoping to get a hand on the Russian’s gun. Gideon did the same to the rebel, but a step slower than Duff, and as a rifle shot cracked close, Duff heard the president’s bodyguard cry out in pain.

Both men threw their bodies into the two combatants in the elevator, and then they all four fell to the floor, desperately trying to get their rifles in position and keep their opponents from wielding theirs.

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