The Sahara Legacy by Ernest Dempsey

Author:Ernest Dempsey [Dempsey, Ernest]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944647186
Publisher: Enclave Publishing
Published: 2017-06-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Leptis Magna

Sean was strolling along a path that ran parallel to the coast when he got Tommy’s text. So far, Sean hadn’t seen anything he thought would be the arch except for arches built into some of the other structures. Tommy said the arch would be a lone structure, so Sean ruled those out immediately.

He glanced down at his phone and read the text.

“Great,” he muttered to himself. “I was starting to think none of us were going to find that thing.”

He raised his head and looked out over the city. From his view, it was hard to tell where Tommy could be. There was a hill just beyond the amphitheater, but it was on the other side of town. It would take several minutes for Sean to get there—even if he ran.

That was the direction Tommy went when they split up so, it would make sense that was where he found the arch. Sean sighed and reached into his gear bag for a bottle of water. He took a few chugs and then put the nearly empty bottle back. He disliked being out in the desert. His lips cracked, and his skin felt like a reptile’s. Working in the desert heat was one of the downsides of helping Tommy at his agency.

Sean licked his lips and marched ahead. He meandered through the old streets, walking by the amphitheater, old palace walls, columns, and what had probably been a temple a few thousand years ago.

The path gradually rose up the slope of the hill until it reached the top next to a thicket of trees and shrubs just behind the walls on both sides. Sean squinted against the bright sunlight. He put the bridge of his hand against his forehead to get a little shade and looked down the hill.

“There it is,” he said.

A few hundred feet below was the arched monument of Septimius Severus. Sean noted the intricate entryways featuring two inward-facing triangular stones set atop columns on each side of the arches. It was difficult to tell from far away, but it looked like there were reliefs carved into the monument above the archways.

Then a frown shot across Sean’s face. Without a second thought, he dove over the wall to his right and ducked behind the overgrown bushes.

He raised up just enough to be able to see over the wall and took another look. He sighed. “Oh man. Libyans.”

Sean watched as five armed men marched Adriana and the other two out of the building at gunpoint. Four men were stationed outside the monument. Then another man appeared. This one didn’t have on a mask like the others. Sean knew instantly that the guy must be the one in charge, probably a mid-ranking officer. Sean hated those types. In his experience, they were always the ones doing the dirty work and typically had enough ambition to want to do their jobs a little too well.

The leader was shouting something at Sean’s friends. From his position, it was impossible to tell what the guy was saying.

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