The Quiet Man (McGarry Stateside Book 3) by Caimh McDonnell

Author:Caimh McDonnell [McDonnell, Caimh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFori Ink
Published: 2020-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Arthur Faser took a deep breath and slowly – very slowly– took a step.

He felt bad about this, he honestly did. The Sisters of the Saint seemed nice. Insane too – insane as could be. Crazier than his aunt Shona, and that woman told anyone who would listen that she once had a liaison with national treasure Tom Hanks in a hot tub at a bus station in Pittsburgh. But still, they were nice – kind of. Certainly nicer than the biker gang that had taken him prisoner previously. Arthur was aware that he might be suffering from some variation on Stockholm syndrome.

He took another very slow step.

Earlier that evening Sister Dionne had sat them all down. There’d been Joy, the crazy, one-eyed bald woman, who’d sort of rescued him from the Razorbacks. “Rescued” seemed like the wrong word. Stolen? Hijacked? Anyway, there was her. There was also a tall, striking woman called Tatiana, who didn’t speak throughout. Then there was a video link with someone called Zoya, who watched from a laptop screen positioned on the coffee table by Sister Teresa. Teresa asking the screen, “Is that OK?” were the first words he’d heard her speak in over a day. He’d assumed she was a mute.

He and Teresa had spent the whole day together, looking at schematics of the prison buildings, reading personnel files of COs, and watching live feeds from the penitentiary. They’d sat there and watched as the Bunny guy had been “attacked”. Arthur had said that there was something off about the whole thing. He took small comfort when Dionne confirmed his suspicions. Bunny had faked it.

Arthur had been asked to give them his initial assessment of the prison and he had done so. It hadn’t been encouraging, but he’d made it clear – nothing was impenetrable. Given enough time, they could find a flaw. He was sure of it. Deep down, Arthur was an optimistic sort of guy.

Then, Dionne had dropped the bomb.

He took another slow step.

Five days! They had five days to get McGarry and this Carlos Breida guy out of prison. It was utterly impossible. Prison breaks took months – years – to figure out. You had to find that flaw – the little tiny gap in the system – and then you had to test it ever so subtly. None of that could be achieved in five days, especially when, apparently, during the course of those five days, the two prisoners in question were going to be the most heavily surveilled in the prison. You would have more chance of success walking up to the gates of Fort Knox, politely rapping on the door, and explaining you’d left a few gold bars inside by mistake and did anyone mind if you quickly grabbed them?

He slowed his breath and took another slow step.

It wasn’t just the gates, the walls and the guards. Every prison had them. Sure, Longhurst being almost new and having all those cameras did make getting out a much harder task, but that wasn’t the biggest problem.

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