Shadow Target by David Ricciardi

Author:David Ricciardi [Ricciardi, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Espionage, Political
ISBN: 9781984804693
Google: JQAvEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08KPCY9MC
Goodreads: 55589217
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2021-06-15T05:00:00+00:00

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JAKE WAS BARELY conscious, sprawled on the truck’s ceiling. He felt a hand come through the broken side window and grab his chin. He felt an arm snake through the shattered rear window and wrap itself around his head.

He knew what was coming next.

It was a technique he’d used in desperate situations before—to snap a man’s neck.

Jake became lucid in an instant. He reached behind him, found the man’s face, and plunged his thumb into the man’s eye socket.

Jake dug harder as the man tried to pull away, driving his thumb through the vitreous gel of the eyeball to the back of the socket. Screaming in pain, the goon released his grip. Jake scrambled out and came up in a fighting stance. The man was on his knees, leaning against the wreck, but far from dead. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a pistol.

Jake had no time for a weapon of his own. His right leg exploded forward and the heel of his boot caught the man in the face, obliterating his nose and launching his skull backward into the pickup’s steel frame. The five-thousand-pound truck shuddered from the impact.

The man slumped forward.

Jake searched him for other weapons but found nothing.

The Suburban was still idling up on the county road.

Jake took the man’s gun and scrambled awkwardly up the shoulder, still dazed from the crash. He opened the SUV’s tailgate and cleared the interior. It was empty. Jake staggered back to the overturned pickup, retrieved his personal effects, and hefted the would-be assassin onto his back. The man was large and muscular, and Jake’s injuries from the plane crash mixed unfavorably with his injuries from the rollover as he crawled up the shoulder. Only a surge of adrenaline got him to the road with enough strength to shove the man into the back of the SUV.

Jake used the man’s belt to hog-tie his hands and feet. He was unconscious now, but that could change in an instant, and Jake had a few questions he needed answered. He’d decide what to do with the goon once they were finished.

Jake drove the SUV to a nearby shopping mall, parked far from any lights or surveillance cameras, and found the owner’s manual in the glove compartment. He found the wiring schematic and pulled the fuses for the vehicle’s GPS and cellular systems. He also found a cheap cell phone in the Suburban’s center console. The call history had been deleted, so Jake removed the battery and stuffed the phone in his pocket.

Jake took a deep breath, calmed his nerves, and began the most intricate surveillance detection run he’d ever made.

His would-be killers had brought the fight to the U.S. and Jake couldn’t risk leading them to the carriage house if they didn’t already know about it. The icy roads were deserted, and over the course of the next ninety minutes, he passed a total of five cars, three snowplows, and two police SUVs. When he was certain he was

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