Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi

Author:Paolo Bacigalupi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

Glass shattered and smoke filled the room. Van clenched his eyes shut and held his breath, lying prone on the floor, just the way Tool had told him.

Hold your breath. Keep your eyes shut. Don’t take even a small breath. Count to sixty, slow. You can hold your breath that long.

Tool would handle the poison smoke.

There was a rattle of AK fire, Stork taking out the rest of the windows, letting the gas billow out, just like they’d planned. Mahlia and Ocho would hold the rear. Stick would clear the rooftops. He and Stork and Tool would hold the front. He could hear Tool grunting, crawling slowly through the haze. Something was terribly wrong with him. Van remembered when the half-man had been nearly unstoppable. Now Tool could barely crawl.

A rifle cracked from outside. The sniper. He heard someone grunt. Stork? He didn’t dare open his eyes even though his whole body was itching with the feeling of having a sniper’s crosshairs on him.

He felt Tool inch up beside him. If things were going well, the half-man was collecting the gas canisters and flinging them back out the window, down into the van that held the kill squad, giving them a little surprise of their own.

Shouts from outside made him think Tool was still able to do some things, at least.

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