The Zombie Game by Glenn Shepard

Author:Glenn Shepard [Shepard, Glenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Action, Terrorism, Iraq, Adventure, Zombie, Medical, Afghanistan
Amazon: B00T11ZQIU
Goodreads: 24998052
Publisher: Mystery House
Published: 2015-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Part 2

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Aboard the Ana Brigette

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

7:00 p.m.

LARS KNEW HELP WAS on the way. The ship was completely quiet. It was time for him to act. Turning his back to Tobias, Lars fumbled in his bottom drawer to retrieve a butter knife he’d sequestered. At the same time, Tobias reached in his drawer and lifted the hunting knife Lars had seen him hide. Tobias turned to face Lars, but the captain was a step ahead of him.

Holding the knife in both hands, Lars jammed it into Tobias’ abdomen and thrust upward with all the force he could muster. The dull butter knife tore through the second mate’s skin to just below the sternum, where the tough muscle of the heart stopped it. But with another lunge, the knife broke the surface of the left ventricle. Blood gushed from the wound.

Tobias’ eyes opened wide in surprise. He gasped as his knife fell from his hand. The last words Tobias heard were, “I hate traitors.” He fell backward and slid down the wall.

Lars took Tobias’ knife and stuck it in his belt. He removed Tobias’ white T-shirt with red horizontal stripes, which now camouflaged the blood, and replaced it with his ship captain’s coat. He put on the T-shirt. He traded his billed captain’s hat with the second mate’s sailor’s cap. He stuffed Tobias’ body in the captain’s bunk and pulled the blanket up to cover the blood. Then, he beat on the bars until a pirate came.

“Captain Paulissen is sick. He’s nearly unconscious with fever. Let me go, so I can go tell Captain Mobuto.”

The guard unlocked the door. As he stepped into the room, Lars struck the back of his neck with Tobias’ knife. The sharp knife severed the spinal cord. He fell without uttering a word. Lars put him in Tobias’ bunk and covered him up.

As Lars strolled to the pharmacy, he put on a show of being free. He carried a wrench in his hand and acted very busy and dutiful. Seeing no one, he opened the door to the hospital unit. He saw the dust and clutter of construction, and a single, young guard, standing watch. Where the hospital beds and operating rooms had been, there was now a big slab with two huge rocket launchers on it. The hospital unit’s pharmacy cabinet was still there, right next to the two missiles, and it was open.

Before the young guard could react, Lars walked to the cabinet. He scanned the shelves. All the pain killers, tranquilizers, and sedatives were missing. The medical cocaine shelf was also empty. He looked in the closet next to the pharmaceutical cabinet, which the hospital staff had filled with five-gallon jugs of sterile water, saline, and isopropyl alcohol. Neither had the four gallons of ethyl alcohol, the liquid Dr. James referred to as “spiritus frumente,” the centuries-old Latin designation for grain alcohol, the kind given to elderly patients as a toddy. With its 180-proof potency, a person could get drunk from it quickly.

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