The Empire Runaway by Vincent Zandri

Author:Vincent Zandri [Zandri, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vincent zandri, Mystery, International Mystery & Crime, Thriller & Suspense, Action, Mystery & Suspense
Publisher: Bear Pulp
Published: 2018-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

The train takes on more speed. As Sam and Maureen pass through the many cars, some of the passengers who aren’t buying their incognito act reach out for Amtrak security professional or shout their concerns at her. She ignores them all, her focus is on getting to the locomotive as fast as humanly possible.

When they come to the first car, they step into the coupling enclosure and come to the metal door that separates the car from the locomotive. The door is secured electronically, and Maureen must punch in a five-digit code for the lock to release. Once the door is unlocked, she opens it, and together they step onto the metal gangway.

The cool wind slaps them in the face. The noise of the wind combined with the locomotive’s thundering engine is deafening. Stepping over the gangway onto the metal grate-like platform that accesses the locomotive door, Maureen attempts to open it. But she can’t. The door is locked. She turns to Sam, once again biting down on her bottom lip.

“The damn door is locked,” she barks, her voice barely audible over the tremendous noise. “It’s not supposed to be locked.”

“Somebody had to have locked it,” Sam shouts, recalling what sounded like a deadbolt being engaged upon his exiting the locomotive earlier. “Maybe Morgan installed a lock on the door as early as this morning. You’d have no way of knowing if it was there or not.”

She pulls out her radio, brings it to her mouth.

“Morgan,” she spits. “Morgan, do you read me? Over.”

It’s impossible to make out the static that is surely coming from the radio. She tries once more.

“Morgan, come in. Come in this instant. We’re going too fast. Do you read me? We’re going too damned fast. Over.”

She presses the radio to her ear and relays a bitter expression that can only mean one thing. Morgan is either incapacitated or ignoring them entirely. As a sky marshal and former Navy SEAL, Sam has been trained to trust his instinct, and go with his gut. And his gut is telling him that the latter is truer. Conductor Morgan has locked himself inside the locomotive and is presently ignoring Maureen’s radio transmissions.

Question is . . . why?

The train speeds wildly down the tracks. It’s going so fast, at times Sam swears the cars are actually lifting off the steel rails, almost like a speeding jet plane taking off. He might not be an expert on trains and how they work, but he senses that all it will take to run this train off the tracks is a sudden curve or deformity in the rails. His number one priority is to figure out a way to get inside that locomotive. Do it now.

Maureen tries the door again, but it appears to be bolted shut.

Damn, Sam thinks. Maybe there is no way inside that locomotive.

Bending slightly at the knees, Maureen cups her hands around her eyes, peers into the small, narrow safety glass that’s embedded in the door.

“What do you see?” Sam inquires.

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