The Life & Death Of Cody Parker (A Tanner Novel Book 5) by Kane Remington

Author:Kane, Remington [Kane, Remington]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, suspense, Noir, Pulp, thriller
Published: 2015-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20 - Sometimes a rock is all you need

The Parker Ranch, September 1997

They came just after three a.m. on a Saturday night.

All four men carried silenced Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns and were dressed in black.

They had parked their stolen vehicle at the mouth of the Parker’s driveway, and then walked in.

The home was dark and everyone inside was asleep. There had been a time, in decades past, when men, ranch employees, would have been asleep in the old bunkhouse, but that dilapidated structure had sat vacant for many years, and the ranch hands all had homes of their own to go to when the day’s work was done.

However, the Parker’s did have at least one employee on site, and his name was Tanner.

Tanner, who had been awake, had heard the sound of the car doors opening and closing and had positioned himself behind a tree where the driveway began.

The four shapes gliding towards him looked like shadows, and whatever they wore on their feet made very little sound, as they moved across the gravel.

Tanner waited until they were ten yards away and opened fire with his .40 Smith & Wesson.

The two men on the left went down with head wounds, and then Tanner moved away just in time to avoid the barrage of bullets that the other two men fired.

The pff! pff! pff! pff! pff! of their sound suppressed shots was nearly as unnerving as the bullets themselves. Tanner knew that these weren’t cowboys from McKay’s ranch, but professional killers like himself.

The remaining two men emerged from the driveway with each of them spraying bullets in a wide arc, three of which struck very close to Tanner, where he hid from sight behind the rear tire of Frank Parker’s pickup truck.

Tanner fired again, and although it took several shots, he killed a third man. The remaining man closed in on his position, but Tanner had already sprinted for a new place to take cover, as the man’s gun went dry.

He had been headed for a wide tree near the fence and away from the house, but the last man changed magazines so quickly that Tanner found himself forced to dive for cover behind a large wheelbarrow, which he tipped on its side.

It was damn poor cover, but the 9mm bullets did ping off the thick steel, with a sound that reminded Tanner of a bell ringing.

He returned fire without hitting the man and then had to change the magazine in his own gun, as he did so, he heard the man sprinting his way while still firing.

One of the man’s shots ricocheted off the lip of the wheelbarrow and just grazed Tanner’s gun, causing him to fumble it, and Tanner expected that at any moment the man would fire over the top of the wheelbarrow, and blow him away.

A voice cried out from the barn and the man with the gun grunted, as a rock slammed into the side of his head, halting him for just a moment.

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