Winner Lose All: A Spy vs Spy Thriller by Brown William F

Author:Brown, William F. [Brown, William F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller, action, international suspense, adventure, mystery, spies, WW II, cold war, Nazis, OSS, CIA, Germany, romantic thriller, KGB, Gestapo, novel, espionage
Published: 2013-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

As Scanlon watched, the scientists and camp guards spent the remainder of the morning and the early afternoon packing boxes and crates with research papers and blueprints, before loading them into two trucks for the run south. They would burn the rest. Von Lindemann decided that the two most senior sergeants would come along to drive, and he would send the other enlisted men west to the nearest Luftwaffe base. It was not the papers or the trucks that concerned Scanlon the most, however. Germany was blazing like a house on fire, with flames licking out its windows. There was no way the Seven Dwarfs could possibly understand the horrors waiting for them out on the road.

Scanlon also suspected that Wolfe Raeder was not finished stirring up trouble, but the Doktor waited until mid-afternoon to try again. The trucks were nearly packed. Von Lindemann knelt on the ground helping Rudy Mannfried and Emil Nossing nail some crates shut, while Eugen Bracht sorted through the last stack of papers. Scanlon helped the guards load the truck. That was when Raeder strode out of his office, down the stairs, and stepped into the center of their small circle. In a loud, self-assured voice, he stated, “This plan of yours needs further discussion, Herr Major, much more, I am afraid. Where exactly is this Alpenfestung place? It sounds like a very dangerous adventure to me.” Raeder was careful to make eye contact with each of his assistants, projecting his own anxiety onto each of them. “Chief Inspector Dietrich said we should wait here until he returns, so perhaps we should get his opinion, too. You two are Luftwaffe, so you may not care; but we are civilians. Provoking the Gestapo and SS, even if they are as uninformed as you claim, could put us in grave danger.”

Clearly, Raeder's words had struck a raw nerve in the other three men. They seldom agreed with him on much of anything, but this time it appeared they might. Von Lindemann was kneeling on the ground and he had to lean heavily on his cane to get to his feet. “No further assurances are necessary, Herr Doktor,” he grimaced with a thin, forced smile as he elevated to his full height and stared down on the meddlesome engineer. “The Gestapo is absolutely right; this installation is no longer safe. The difference between Herr Dietrich and us is that Captain Schmitt and I are under direct orders from the High Command to relocate this entire operation to a top secret location, and that is all you need to know for the moment.”

“The High Command?” Raeder laughed contemptuously as he folded his arms across his chest. “Why don't you show us these precious orders of yours, Major?”

“It is a Führer Order, Herr Doktor, from him to Göring to us. That is why they remain verbal, to keep the location top secret from spies and from traitors.”

“Are you calling me a traitor, Major? Because I ask to see some proof of these verbal orders of yours?” Raeder laughed.

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