Crucial Intercept by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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“You’re freaking kidding me, right?” Baldero asked hotly as the Crown Victoria rolled up the entrance ramp and began to pick up speed on the highway. “A gun to my effing head?”

“Would you have rather gone with Ayalah and her people?” Bolan asked. “I guarantee their idea of persuading you would be unpleasant. You might not survive it.”

“You put a gun to my head!”

“Calm down,” Bolan said without taking his eyes from the road. “I wouldn’t have shot you.”

“You wouldn’t have… Then why do it, if you wouldn’t have shot me?”

“Well, they didn’t know that.”

Baldero just stared at him. Finally, he slumped into his seat, crossed his arms and swore under his breath.

“Put your seat belt on,” Bolan told him.

The trip to Richmond, on Highway 64 back the way Bolan and Baldero had traveled separately to Norfolk, was quiet. Baldero sat in sullen silence while the soldier drove. The sedan’s engine screamed as Bolan pushed it as hard as he could, determined to gain as much advantage in distance and time as he could make. His plan hinged on them getting to Richmond and to the location identified for him by Stony Man. Given just how badly they had managed to hurt the Iranians and the French that morning, chances were very good they could pull it off. He had no illusions that the enemy would not regroup and pursue again, for they had done so repeatedly, but there was no doubt that he had hurt them. He had hurt them badly, in fact. Their forces, while large, were finite, and operating on what was for them a non-permissive environment fraught with risks of discovery.

That meant, Bolan knew, that while he could speed past everything else on the highway, traveling on the shoulder when necessary and moving in and out of the traffic that appeared to be standing still by comparison, his pursuers would need to remain relatively legal. They could not risk being pulled over for speeding and, frankly, Bolan hoped if they did speed, no one happened to stop them. He did not like the thought of some state trooper walking into that mess unaware. If it had been in his power to prevent such a scenario, he would gladly have taken on more risk to himself to do so.

He was within just a few miles of Richmond when he saw yet another police car. This one ignored him, as had all the others. Price and Stony Man were still covering him, unseen but always there when he required their assistance.

Baldero was looking around with interest, apparently having worked out to his own satisfaction that Bolan had not intended to put a bullet in his brain.

That had been a tense moment, but there was no other way. The Israelis needed Baldero alive. They knew Bolan would at least theoretically want Baldero alive, too, but they’d also seen him shoot down, on his own, countless armed men that morning. He had ruthlessly bludgeoned Noam when it had been necessary to do so.

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