The Hangman's Revolution by Eoin Colfer

Author:Eoin Colfer [Colfer, Eoin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Children's Books, Children's eBooks, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction; Fantasy & Scary Stories, Science Fiction, Time Travel
Amazon: B00FMFEA86
Publisher: Puffin
Published: 2014-06-25T14:00:00+00:00

Box called Rosenbaum and issued some commands.

“Destroy the landing pad on Half Moon Street. I want things to stay the way they are going to be. No one comes, no one leaves.”

“Yes, Colonel. I’ll get a squad over there right away.”

“And I need death warrants written up, date sensitive, for Professor Charles Smart, who will live on Half Moon Street. And Cadet Chevron Savano, who will be a student in the Boxite Academy, which I will found after the second round of Boxstrike, apparently.”

Rosenbaum jotted down the details in a notebook.

“Method of execution?” he asked.

Box waved his hand. “Oh, at the executioner’s discretion, but both terminations must take place at Smart’s residence.”

“Discretionary, Colonel,” said Rosenbaum. “Noted.”

“I need a picture of the Pietà to hang behind my desk, and begin moving all this junk out of here.”

Rosenbaum could have pointed out that they were leaving the catacombs the following day, but the colonel was not fond of people questioning his orders.

“Send a cleanup crew to the Orient. I want all those bodies dumped in case they lead back to us at this crucial moment.”

“At once, Colonel.”

Box pointed at Vallicose’s coat. “And I would like this symbol, the Boxite symbol, stitched onto all uniforms.”

Rosenbaum nodded. “The dual symbolism is quite clever.”

“It is efficient,” corrected Box. “It conveys our ethos and loyalties in the minimum amount of strokes.” He bent to his ledger and was sketching the Boxite symbol when Farley entered the room, looking a little the worse for wear but a lot less terminal than he had when the Thundercats had found him in the orchestra pit.

“Colonel,” he said, “Malarkey’s bug is pinging loud and clear. He has run to his Grosvenor Square address. I would wager that Savano is with him. Let me take a small group of men…”

The colonel raised his large, bottom-heavy head from the twin waves of his ledger.

“No, Major,” he said. “I need you at the Hidey-Hole, to make the offer. The Rams know you. And Grosvenor Square is a privileged area; there will be plenty of police around. We need someone quiet and deadly. Rosenbaum, you are the sneakiest of us. Do you think Malarkey is a man you could kill?”

Woodrow clicked his pen. He was tired of being the secretary; it was not what he had been trained to do. He was trained to kill people without drawing attention to himself, and he hadn’t had a mission in months.

He could have answered: I can kill Malarkey in a heartbeat.

Or:

I could end his life in a flash.

Or his favorite from the Godfather movies.

Malarkey will be sleeping with the fishes.

But imagery and metaphor would simply confuse the colonel, who prized plain-speaking above all else.

So he said, “Yes, Colonel, I can kill Malarkey.”

“Good,” said Box. “Do it tomorrow morning.”

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