You're Never Ready for a Zombie Apocalypse by Jeff Thomson

Author:Jeff Thomson [Thomson, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Synapse Books
Published: 2018-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

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Blackjack Charlie Carter glanced at the radar screen and smiled. The faint blip was still there, right at the edge of the screen, and right where it was supposed to be. They’d been shadowing the contact for hours, since they’d followed the DF plot to the most likely location.

The Daisy Jean was a shade over twenty-five nautical miles out, and the contact was at the edge of the twenty-five mile ring, which meant it had to be pretty big, otherwise they wouldn’t pick it up. The Daisy Jean, on the other hand, was not big, so the other boat probably couldn’t see them on radar.

Probably...

And so he’d been darting in and out of range just long enough to confirm they were still there, then heading back out another five miles. He spun the helm to starboard and goosed the throttle to give them a bit more speed.

He should have the sails up, since fuel was limited, and if they didn’t snag the other boat, he had no idea when they’d find more of it. But the sail cloth had radar reflective tape sewn into it, and raising them would increase their profile, and the jig would be up. That would fuck them before they even started.

The other ship could be a fancy yacht with a handful of rich bastards on it, or it could be a freighter with a full crew. He leaned more toward the former. The stupid bitch he’d talked to could only be some rich fucker’s trophy wife. No professional crew would be dumb enough to put her on the Bridge. But maybe... He didn’t know, and so their only hope was to catch them by surprise.

He smiled. It was not a pleasant smile. Small children would be scared by it. If everything worked the way he’d planned, the surprise wouldn’t be pleasant, either.

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