Sherlock Holmes and The Roswell Incident by Michael Druce

Author:Michael Druce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sherlock holmes, mystery, crime, british crime, sherlock holmes fiction, sherlock holmes novel
ISBN: 9781787052994
Publisher: Andrews UK
Published: 2018-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Salt Flats

The incessant drone and vibration of engines jostled Piper Sands awake. Groggy and with an aching head, she found herself securely restrained in the middle seat of a Cessna Bobcat T-50. A pilot and copilot were visible through the gap in a makeshift curtain that separated the cockpit from the three seats behind them. Clearly, she had been sedated. Other than a raging headache, she felt no worse for wear.

“Hey!” Piper called out.

There was no response from the cockpit.

“Hey, Moe and Larry, I see you there. I need to use the ladies room.”

The copilot pushed aside the curtain. “You’ll have to wait.”

“Easy for you to say, Larry.”

“It won’t be much longer. And my name isn’t Larry.”

“What happened to the big guy, Curly? Did Holmes and Watson get him?”

“Rest assured, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will be dealt with, as you will be dealt with.”

The copilot turned away and pulled the curtain closed.

As cavalier as Piper Sands tried to present herself, she had to admit she was scared. The risks of this operation had been carefully laid out and every contingency planned for, all except one. Who could have foreseen the intervention of Sherlock Holmes? How had that happened? The attempted snatch was designed to take place in a public setting. Her personal residence was a closely guarded secret. Even the mole didn’t know where she lived; otherwise she would have been snatched long ago. A great deal of effort had been undertaken to create the impression she lived on base. The use of a double and an elaborate security plan had been devised to allow her to live as normal a life as possible until Operation Deceive was completed. How the hell had Sherlock Holmes managed to find her? Give him credit for that, but not for the fact that he wasn’t clever enough to know Soviet agents were tracking him. It wouldn’t take long for the Soviets to discover she wasn’t Jenny Winston. Piper dreaded to imagine what tools they had in their arsenal to make her talk. Whether she had anything useful to tell them or not, her future did not look bright. Piper’s training had prepared her for almost every contingency. Being bound, drugged, and kidnapped was not one of them.

Twenty minutes later the plane began its descent. The landscape below appeared as a barren desert. Piper Sands hoped she was still in the United States. Could be Mexico. The sedative her abductors had administered had erased her grasp of time.

The Bobcat T-50 made a hard landing.

“Good God,” Piper Sands yelled from the back of the plane. “Do you know how to fly this thing?”

Neither man responded.

The small plane whipped up a whirlwind of dust as it taxied to a stop.

The copilot threw back the makeshift curtain, pushed open the door, and waited on the ground, holding a pistol at the ready in case Agent Sands tried something silly. The pilot undid Piper’s restraint and nudged her through the door. She stepped onto the wing and then onto the sandy runway.

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