The Babylon Idol by Scott Mariani

Author:Scott Mariani [Mariani, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Thrillers, General, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Espionage
ISBN: 9780007486410
Google: dD-WDQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01N2M91VX
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2017-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Trapped inside a strange house, on unfamiliar ground with little sense of the lie of the land, unarmed except for a kitchen knife, with four heavily tooled-up professional thugs about to attack at any moment and a matter of seconds in which to figure out a contingency plan. Ben had been in similar scrapes before now, and survived. But it wasn’t something to make a habit of.

Then again, Ercan Kavur’s home was not the typical middle-class suburban residence.

Ben jumped over to the desk and turned off the lamp, plunging the study into darkness. Too late. The attackers already knew which room their targets were in. Through the window he saw the lithe figure of the team leader signal to the one with the grenade launcher, who planted himself on the patch of lawn in front of the house, braced himself and fired straight at the study window with a loud report that Kavur’s thick security glass muffled to a WHOOMPH.

Ben instinctively dived away from the window, grabbing Anna and yanking her down to the floor. If the grenade was high explosive, they were both dead anyway; but if his guess was right and the assault team were using tear gas, he’d have to try to get to the study door in time to escape the worst of it.

The juddering impact seemed to shake the whole house as the grenade whacked into the glass. A normal window would have shattered into a million fragments that would have covered Ben and Anna’s prone bodies like an ice storm, but Ercan Kavur’s home improvements paid off. Instead of smashing through the window the missile just bounced off.

Once, while training on a pistol shooting range, Ben had been hit square in the chest by a forty-calibre slug that had bounced straight back at him from a steel plate target and left him shaken and bruised. These things happened, time to time. Up on his feet instantly, still clutching Anna’s arm, Ben saw the grenade rebound towards the shooter who had launched it, catch him right in the face and knock him off his feet with his visor cracked. The grenade dropped to the ground next to him, blowing out a pressurised stream of CS gas that billowed and dispersed into the night air. The team leader quickly kicked the grenade away and it rolled harmlessly into the bushes. The fallen guy jumped back up, ripped off his damaged mask and threw it away in disgust.

The assault hadn’t started well, but the team now wasted no time to move on with the next phase of the attack, to get inside. That was when the fun would begin.

‘Time to leave,’ Ben said. He snatched up his bag and slung it over his shoulder, reached down and pulled Anna sharply to her feet.

‘The papers—’ she began.

‘Leave them.’ He hauled her towards the study door. There was no time to grab her coat or handbag, either. The electrified perimeter might deter a casual burglar but it wasn’t going to be an obstacle to these guys.

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