Callsign: Rook - Book 1 (A Stan Tremblay - Chess Team Novella) by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Breakneck Media
Published: 2011-09-20T04:00:00+00:00

10

Most of the way up the road to Peder’s house, Rook heard a gun shot. The right front tire of the car blew out at the same time, and Rook wrenched the wheel to keep from hurtling off the cliff into the ocean. When the car came to a stop, he pulled out the Desert Eagle, opened the driver’s door, and kept himself low to the ground when he exited.

After several minutes, he hadn’t heard any additional shots. But he didn’t dare make his way around to the damaged wheel, exposed as he was to anyone on the hill that rose away from the road. He had no choice but to either wait, or make the rest of the journey on a flat tire.

Rook had never liked waiting. So five minutes later, he was back at the house. He knocked on the door, and Peder let him in.

“Car trouble?”

“If you call having a tire shot out car trouble, then yeah.”

Peder exhaled. “Trouble seems to follow you, doesn’t it? What does the woman in your life think?”

“Trouble’s got me pegged, you’re right about that, but there’s not really a woman in my life like you mean. Not yet.”

Peder just looked at him. “Perhaps that is the problem.”

Rook almost opened his mouth to protest, but Peder’s words set him thinking about the two women in his life. Well, three if you counted Sara Fogg, the CDC scientist who had accompanied Chess Team as an honorary “pawn,” and the girlfriend of the team’s leader, King. But the two main ones were Fiona Lane, and his fellow team member Queen.

Fiona was the fourteen-year-old girl the team had saved, the last living speaker of an ancient language that the team had discovered contained great power. King was serving as her guardian, but the whole Chess Team regarded her as family, and though Rook wouldn’t have admitted it, he enjoyed his role as Uncle Stan.

As for Queen, well that particular woman in his life didn’t have any problem with the trouble that seemed to follow Rook around. Dealing with it was her job as well, and she managed it better than anyone. Rook suspected that trouble would follow him no matter who was in his life, and he wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

Rook became aware that he had paused the conversation. “I doubt it. Anyway, do you have any idea who would want to shoot out my tires? It can’t have been Fossen, I just left him and he wouldn’t have had time. Plus, whatever other agenda he has, I think he really wants me alive long enough to kill the creature. And I actually got some smiles from the folks in town today.”

“Smiles, huh? You are making progress. My answer is that I do not know who would shoot at you, but I am not surprised. Most people here do not like outsiders, even well-intentioned outsiders. Did anything happen today that might explain it?”

“Well, I did find something out where our hairy friend disappeared, but not a lot.

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