Vengeance by Roger Weston

Author:Roger Weston [Weston, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, ebook, action-adventure, The Brandt Series, action-packed thriller novel, Vengeance ebook, thrilling read, novel, Fiction, espionage, crime novel, Mystery, thriller & suspense
Publisher: Weston Publishing Enterprises
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Kamchatka, Valley of the Geysers

From Belkin’s cement dwelling, Chuck climbed the zigzagging stairs up to what he thought was the rim of the canyon, but it turned out to be a sort of optical illusion. It was a rim below the upper rim, a last step before top, a bench in the mountain side with a helicopter pad. Cut back into the side of the canyon, about seventy yards back from the ridge, was a massive gaping tunnel entrance. The tunnel entrance was a huge cement arch, fifty-feet tall and forty wide. Chuck could see a hundred yards down the tunnel. He saw a long cement floor and curved ceiling. Massive concrete arches were spaced at intervals, every ten yards, all the way back, into the throat of the mountain.

He surveyed the surrounding area carefully. A road ran up to the high ridge two hundred feet up, but it was blocked with a chain-link fence topped with curling barbed-wire. The fences ran all along the ridge and danger signs in Russian warned of high voltage. The fence, the barbed-wire, and the signs all looked new. For Chuck to go over the ridge was going to take some time and effort. Before he did that, he would check out the tunnel and see if there was another way up to the airbase.

The walk down the tunnel was gloomy. Skylight slats in the roof let some natural light in, but the underground section of the old airbase was dim. Racks for lighting were bolted into the ceiling but the lights weren’t working. There were also speakers attached to these racks.

Cracks splintered across the cement floor, releasing sulfuric steam. Although the volcano nearby had previously been dormant for decades, it was now considered to be active. Also, it appeared that there had been at least one major earthquake since the fall of the Soviet Union. Chuck stepped over a few two-foot wide cracks in the stone floor. Even with his tactical flashlight, he couldn’t see the bottom of these deadfalls.

Watching for sign, he soon realized that someone had been down here. Boot scuffs on the dusty stone floor gave the impression that many soldiers had been here recently.

Debris was scattered around. He walked past old tires, probably from troop carrier trucks. He passed rusted-out airplane parts, wheels, propellers, and engines. He even passed abandoned Cold War era missiles stacked along the walls. He walked slowly, always alert for trip wires. He passed three corroded forklifts and endless wooden crates along the walls. It was as if the airbase had been abandoned suddenly amid the political turmoil of the early 1990’s and much of the supplies and hardware had been left to rot through the years. Chuck looked in a few of the crates, finding weapons and spare aircraft parts. The boxes in one stack were full of Finnish, Russian Mosin Nagant Infantry rifles, Model M/91. Others were packed with Russian PPsH 1941 Machine Guns.

He walked slowly, watching for infrared trip wires or thermal sensors.

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