The Capricorn Deception by Steve P Vincent

Author:Steve P Vincent [Vincent, Steve P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

7

Herron whistled softly as he picked through the bag of firearms, choosing his tools for the job. He hung two of the submachine guns over his shoulder by their straps, stuck another pistol in the waistband of his shorts and hefted the rifle in his hands. He finished his loadout with ammo, two flashbangs and two tear gas grenades.

Satisfied he had enough to eradicate the Chinese company’s presence on the island, he threw the bag containing the rest of his weapons into some bushes and then slammed the trunk of his stolen car. He could come back for the guns later, once his target was a smoldering ruin. He doubted he’d be able to do the same with the car.

If all went to plan, its owner would have a compelling insurance claim.

He took a second to glance up at the processing plant, a hundred yards ahead of him. It was a giant facility, easily the tallest and most impressive structure he’d seen on the island. Natural gas was pumped from it onto ships berthed alongside – they simply sucked up their fill of the liquid gold and then sailed off to deliver it to China.

Not for long.

The paper he’d extracted from Ms Yang’s purse had been a manifest for weapons for the Movement – hidden and shipped in on a tanker – and a payment and deployment schedule for the mercenaries her company had hired. Most recently, that deployment had included blowing up the Council of Tribal Chiefs complex.

Elsewhere in her room, he’d found details of an aggressive expansion of their campaign, which would target dozens of civilian sites and likely result in hundreds of casualties. It was an escalation that Herron wouldn’t allow to happen. China National, the mercenaries and the Movement were cancers on the local populace every bit as bad as the General.

He saw only one way to get the corporation off the island – a devastating attack on this facility, causing so much damage it’d be too resource-intensive to rebuild. Without the gas resources, they’d likely stop paying the mercenaries and propping up the resistance. It wouldn’t take care of all the island’s problems, but it’d be a start.

He opened the gas tank of the car and inserted a rag far enough that only the end was sticking out. When he was finished, he got back behind the wheel, racked the seat forward, started the car, and wedged one of his submachine guns between the bottom of the seat and the gas pedal.

The engine turned over and revved hard, but the car stayed in place, the handbrake engaged and the vehicle in park. Next, he returned to the gas tank and used his zippo to light the rag. When it was burning satisfactorily, he pocketed the lighter and sat back in the driver’s seat with his legs hanging out of the open door.

He disengaged the handbrake and then shifted the vehicle into drive. “Time to go loud.”

Freed of its restraints, the car kicked forward and gained speed, heading for the front gate of the facility.

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