Silent Kill by Chris Ryan
Author:Chris Ryan [Ryan, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military, Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, N2R, Suspense, Literature & Fiction, Thriller, Spies & Politics, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers, Action & Adventure, Genre Fiction, War, Espionage, War & Military
ISBN: 9781444776959
Publisher: Coronet
Published: 2015-10-07T22:00:00+00:00
Twenty-three
0819 hours.
Skirting the river, they pushed on through the savannah. The sun was so hot it made Bald’s teeth sweat, and beads of the stuff ran like candlewax down his spine. Racing through the tall grass brought back memories of training in Belize during Selection. Twenty years ago. Seemed like something from another life. Before Northern Ireland. Before the Regiment’s top brass had hung him out to dry, and Bald had turned to the drink, and the migraines began.
Before his life had turned into one big clusterfuck.
He kept looking over his shoulder, like a distance runner gunning down the home straight and checking on his rivals. He saw Priest with his back turned as he stopped to put down single rounds on the pirates. Twenty of the fuckers, thought Bald. Just my luck. He placed the pirates at two hundred metres back. They were moving at a good pace, picking their way through the dead bodies littering the bank and scaling the incline. Slowly but surely catching up. In minutes they’d be on top of Bald and his little group.
The problem was Eli. Bald’s fears about Imogen had been misplaced – she moved quickly despite her injuries. The fear of being abducted by a bunch of angry pirates probably had something to do with it, he figured. No, Eli was the one slowing them down. Stegman did his best to hurry him along, as the slave limped frenetically at his side. Bald gritted his teeth. Should’ve sent Eli south when you had the chance, the voice in his head said. His knackered leg was going to cost them. Big time.
‘Keep going,’ Bald barked at Imogen. ‘Whatever you do, don’t stop.’
She nodded quickly. The soles of her bare feet were gashed and bloody from scrambling over the rocks and stones on the climb.
Then a roar thundered at Bald’s six o’clock. He looked back to see the pirates putting down rounds on their position. After the roar came the hiss and spit of the bullets as they ripped through bark and thumped into the soil. A hundred and fifty metres separated them now, Bald reckoned. The pirates were steadily closing the gap.
Priest unleashed a three-round burst at them. They dispersed between the acacia trees in what appeared to be a practised manoeuvre, and Bald had to remind himself that he was dealing with a sophisticated enemy. The pirates weren’t the usual incompetent local toughs – they had grown up in the blood and bullets of war-torn Somalia. Most of them had been fighting since the day their balls dropped. They had successfully hijacked international shipping routes and repelled attacks from French commandos and US Navy SEALs. They were a formidable enemy.
Bald pushed on. Standard operating procedure when faced with an enemy of overwhelming strength was to execute a tactical withdrawal, bugging out of the killing zone, using every weapon to hand to keep the enemy at bay until neutral ground was reached. But there was one major problem with that SOP: Eli’s shattered leg.
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