Survivalist - 07 - The Prophet by Ahern Jerry

Author:Ahern, Jerry [Ahern, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Rourke watched the bonfires below him and far to port. It would be the wildmen-perhaps they had trapped Cole, he thought. He heard the voice coming through his headset.

“John-do you see those fires?”

“The wildmen.”

“Should we go in?”

Rourke didn’t answer her for a moment. Teal could be down there. But if Cole were still in control of his small party of men-and of Teal-Teal would be alive until the missile silos and the control bunker were reached, penetrated. If a stray shot from the wildmen disabled one of these two last functional helicopters, bringing back a full, heavily armed landing party from the submarine would be impossible.

“No, Natalia-we keep going to the coast,” he said finally into the small microphone just in front of his lips, a cigar clenched-unlit-in the left corner of his mouth.

“All right,” he heard her voice come back.

“You are a strange man,” her voice sounded in his ear after a moment.

“Why is that?”

“I would have expected you to storm in there-like that story Paul tells about you riding your Harley into the Brigand camp in the desert and killing the leader, then-“

Rourke thought back-it seemed so long ago. He remembered Paul then-iike two different people in terms of skills and abilities. He studied the lights on the instrument panels. “That served a purpose,” he told her.

“Revenge?”

“Yes.”

“And now the purpose is-” She let the question hang.

“Keep Cole from launching those missiles-it’s the only thing he can be planning. The only thing. Millions of lives maybe-against one life.”

He wondered if Armand Teal would understand. Rourke smiled to himself-he wondered if he himself understood it.

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