Winter's Bullet by Osborne William

Author:Osborne, William
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Published: 2014-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

There it was, in black and white, a flight at midnight tomorrow with the Führer listed as a passenger. Not only him, but Bormann too – Tygo had heard of him, and knew he was very important. Krüger must have added his own name; it was handwritten.

He wondered where the co-ordinates could be. They must be close to Amsterdam if the flight was tomorrow – probably Schiphol, from where they had flown last night.

Tygo set the file on the desk and tried to deal with the enormity of what he’d discovered. Slowly it began to sink in: the Führer was leaving tomorrow. He was going to fly to Barcelona from Amsterdam, and then escape from Europe – most probably, he realized, to Buenos Aires in Argentina, with the help of that rich woman Eva Duarte.

He scanned the rest of the file again, searching for more information. Another flight, he saw, was arriving at the same co-ordinates tomorrow night: 52–37 Nord 4–53 Ost. But this plane’s cargo was listed as just two items: T-Waffe V6 and Ur 234 Spezielle Formul. So was the plane to Barcelona going to carry these as well? What were they?

Tygo stared at the words. Waffe meant ‘weapon’, he knew that, and Ur – that was some sort of element, wasn’t it? He remembered his periodic table from chemistry: Ur stood for uranium. It was radioactive; they had learnt about it, and about Marie Curie, in school. And here, it had the words ‘special formula’ after it.

Together they had to be some sort of secret weapon, like the sort that Propaganda Minister Goebbels talked about in his radio broadcast. A weapon that could win the war decisively. What could uranium do to cause such destruction?

Tygo checked through the rest of the papers. Behind that order was another one; it was stamped ‘Kriegsmarine’ and had the signature of an admiral called Dönitz at the bottom. It listed a U-2511 submarine, and next to it a place, Cádiz, which Tygo knew was in Spain. There was a long list of personnel and equipment as part of the submarine manifest. There it was again: Ur 234 Spezielle Formul. He jotted it down. So the weapon was going to be taken from the Barcelona plane and transported on to the submarine at Cádiz – but where then? To Argentina, with the Führer? It all seemed so far-fetched.

Suddenly Tygo heard footsteps in the corridor. He closed the folder and put in back in the safe, his heart hammering. He got the safe shut and locked, then sprinted to the window. It was too late to get out by the door and there was nowhere to hide; it would have to be the window.

He slipped behind the long blackout blind and got the window open, then clambered on the windowsill and stepped out on to the ledge outside. He didn’t look down, but pressed himself against the side of the building, shrouded by the darkness. With his right hand he pushed the window closed as far as he could.

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