The Armageddon Protocol (A Harry Bane Thriller) by Jones Rob

Author:Jones, Rob [Jones, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-TWO

As they walked towards the trucks, Petit went ahead of them, lit his cigarette with a sigh of relief, and began to talk with the driver. They were standing in what looked like a loading bay, but was in fact a covered area used specifically to move prisoners into vans in order to transfer them to other facilities.

Harry scanned the area for any escape routes, but it had been designed with one thing in mind, and that was keeping prisoners in custody until they were someone else’s responsibility. Up ahead, Petit’s conversation with the driver was getting a little heated.

Zoey moved in closer to him and lowered her voice. “Do you speak French?”

“A little,” he said. “I think they’re having a disagreement.”

“Well, duh,” Zoey said. “An Alapaha Blue Blood Bulldog could work that out just by sniffing the air.”

Harry gave her a weary glance, but before he could reply, Lucia said, “It’s about the paperwork. The driver hasn’t got the correct documents for our transfer.”

“Thanks,” Zoey said, flashing at glance at Harry.

Now Barbier stepped out of the station and trotted down the concrete steps with his hands in his pockets. He was whistling a tune, but the music stopped when he approached the van and joined the conversation with Petit and the driver. At the same time, the rear doors of the van swung open and two men in navy blue boilers suits hopped out and walked around to the front. Harry noticed they were both wearing gun holsters on their belts.

“This is getting interesting,” he said. “Was that something about uniforms?”

Lucia gave a nervous, shallow nod. “Yes, the French police are saying they’re not in the correct uniform for prison officers and he’s going to report them to their superior.”

“I don’t like this at all,” Andrej said.

“All right,” Harry said flatly as he glanced over each of his shoulders. “Get ready.”

“Get ready for what, exactly?” Zoey said, and took a step back from the van.

The answer was rapid and violent, as all of the men in boiler suits drew their pistols and gunned down Petit and Barbier. The two Frenchmen tumbled to the floor, their shirts turning red with blood as the men in the van turned their guns on a young officer standing to the side of the prisoners and shot him down like a dog.

Zoey gasped. “Jesus Christ on ice skates!”

“Down!” Harry yelled, shoulder-barging Lucia to the floor and tumbling down on top of her. With Zoey and Andrej right behind them, they rolled behind a low, chipped wall supporting the concrete steps they had used to enter the van area. As they tucked themselves into the cover of the wall, several armed police officers burst into the transfer area and fired on the men in the boiler suits. The men took cover behind the van and returned fire.

“They’ve got ‘em now!” Zoey said. “Woo-hoo!”

“I don’t think so,” Andrej said, wiping sweat from his forehead.

“That’s a Mercedes Sprinter specially designed for prisoner transport,” Harry said. “It’s bulletproof, so they’re safe for the time being.

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