Sky Zone: A Novel (The Crittendon Files) by Creston Mapes

Author:Creston Mapes [Mapes, Creston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Homeland Security, Reporter, Christian Fiction, Inspirational Thriller, Suspense, Terrorist Threat
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published: 2014-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Derrick gripped Margaret’s pink-and-black nine-millimeter Taurus a little tighter and inched it a little higher behind the seat in front of him as Jack argued with Zaher to let him get Pam to a hospital.

Everything was happening at once.

The crowd was chanting angrily to let Pam go. Shakespeare was whispering to the others seated onstage. Sterling was pleading to let the people go. The whole thing was reaching a boiling point.

“We’re gonna walk out of here,” Jack stated to Zaher.

Derrick feared Zaher would snap.

“If Karen Lester doesn’t get down here with that kid right now, the rock star dies.” Zaher had Everett’s face pressed to the stage, gun to the back of his head. “And if you people don’t shut up, and that includes you”—he pointed the remote control at Jack—“I will blow this place to pieces. Shut up right now!”

“Stop! Wait!” The crowd quieted when a woman’s voice rang out from the top of the steps beyond the stage. “We’re here!” It was Karen Lester. “Don’t hurt him!” Clutching her son’s hand. Holding her blonde hair behind her ear. Coming down the steps at gunpoint.

“No.” Everett shook his head in torment, his shoulders lurching, unable to look up and see his family because Zaher still had the gun jammed to his head.

Just then one of the gunmen, a wide hulking guy with a toothpick in his mouth, stepped forward to get Zaher’s attention and pointed at his own headset. Zaher dashed to him. The gunman put his head down and cupped his earpiece, listening intently.

Shakespeare made eye contact with Sterling.

Were they going to try something? But what? They had no weapons. Derrick breathed in enormously, eyeing the gun in his hands, mentally preparing to pick off as many of the terrorists as possible, should Shakespeare and Sterling make some kind of move.

The masked gunman explained something to Zaher, and they both turned toward the back of the stage, blocked the light from their eyes, and peered up to the top of the bowl. Two masked gunmen ran a quarter of the way down the steps, frantically waving their arms and machine guns.

Zaher turned back to Karen and Cole. “Stop where you are!” They had just reached the lower seats on the side of the bowl, near where red-faced Charlie Clearwater hung upside down with bombs strapped to his stomach.

Zaher quickstepped to the hostages onstage. “All of you, get over there with Lester’s wife and boy—now! Move!” He pointed his gun toward Karen and Cole.

Everyone looked at one another, hesitating, except Everett, who scrambled to his feet and started toward his wife and son.

“Not you!” Zaher pointed the machine gun at Everett. “You stay.”

Shakespeare quickly got to his feet and took charge, leading the others into the dark shadows offstage and down the steps toward where Karen stood shivering, hugging Cole. Sterling slowly followed the group, making sure they were all accounted for.

“You’re not going anywhere.” Zaher bashed his machine gun into Sterling’s gut, knocking the wind out of him.

“The rest of you get down there.

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