Vendetta by Iris Johansen

Author:Iris Johansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

SAN KABARA ISLAND

Brandon was right, Rachel noticed, as she jumped out of the speedboat onto the pier. Even in this short time, there were two Coast Guard ships already at the pier, plus multiple police and civilian boats. Even as she watched, two helicopters were landing about a mile down the beach in front of the Andorra Hotel, which towered at least twenty stories above the crashing surf. Hotel personnel were shepherding bewildered guests out of the other hotels along the strip to the beach. Two police officers were putting up a yellow crime-scene-tape barricade to keep anyone boarding any of the boats at the pier.

“Wait here,” Brandon said curtly as he made his way toward the police officers. “I need to know where the command center is going to be—”

Then she didn’t hear anything else as she saw Catherine get off that second helicopter. She ducked under the tape and started running down the beach toward her.

“Rachel!” Brandon was right behind her. “Stay close, dammit. I don’t need to be chasing after you.”

“No, you don’t.” She said over her shoulder, “Go look for someone suspicious or something. Can’t you see they need help to get those people out of the hotels? I’m going to ask Catherine to put me to work.”

Brandon muttered a curse. “We don’t even know what the threat is going to be. We assume that it will be a blast because that’s Huber’s modus operandi, but we can’t be certain. We need to go with the bomb squad into all the hotels and see if we can find anything.”

“Then go do it. I don’t know anything about bombs, but I know about people. Those guests streaming out of those hotels look like lost sheep. Some of them may have decided to stay put instead of wandering around on the beach. That can’t happen.” She put on a spurt of speed as she saw Catherine coming toward her. “Get away from me, Brandon. I didn’t come here to have you hovering over me.” She’d almost reached Catherine, and she called to her, “Tell me what to do. Where’s Claire?”

“The other helicopter,” Catherine shouted over the sound of the rotors. “She wanted to show up with Matt Delvan, who’s heading the Homeland investigation.” She looked beyond Rachel’s shoulder. “Where’s Brandon going?”

Rachel glanced at Brandon, who had done an about-face and was heading toward a police command center that was now being set up near the pier. “I have no idea. Probably something world-shaking. That’s his business. My business is to save as many of these people as I can.” She glanced at her watch. A chill went through her. A little less than three hours. “Can you give me an ID or something so that I won’t get arrested for interfering with Company business?”

“Better than that.” Catherine took off her CIA windbreaker and handed it to Rachel. “But I don’t believe you’re going to have problems. Everything is going to be in frantic mode from now on. No one’s going to ask too many questions if you appear to be rescuing, not killing, someone.

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