Global Tilt by Roger Weston

Author:Roger Weston [Weston, Roger]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weston Publishing Enterprises
Published: 2017-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

As Chuck and Shi walked away from the casino, Chuck kept an eye out for other killers. It appeared that Wan Lee was working alone. Regardless, Wan Lee had played his cards and lost. Now Chuck just wanted to get away from there. He had to do something and fast. The clock was ticking till Macau was wiped off the map and the world plunged into nuclear winter.

Macau seemed different now after the mauling of Wan Lee. As Chuck and Shi walked past the stunning skyscrapers, Chuck took in his surroundings. The buildings were multi-billion dollar structures. To think of the money that flowed through this area staggered his imagination. The gaming district was an amazing spectacle. It was a modern wonder, but all Chuck could think of was bright eyes of the massive white tiger and Wan Lee refusing to drop his gun.

Chuck recalled what Wan Lee had said about the elite class that would be protected from the disaster because they had bunkers around the world. The mass death across the planet that Wan Lee spoke of would supposedly not affect them. Chuck wondered if the local casino owners were among the prepared? He could only imagine what would become of their spectacular casinos in two hours when the twenty nukes detonated…

They walked a few blocks away from the casinos. When they passed in front of a Buddhist temple, Chuck pointed at a bench and a patch of grass set back from the street with a small, newly-planted cherry tree.

Chuck looked at his watch. It was forty minutes before Wan Si was supposed to meet Gigante at the Sea View Restaurant. “Let’s sit down for a minute.”

Shi nodded and followed his lead.

Chuck tapped his fingers on his knee and looked Shi in the eye. “How did you get mixed up in this?”

Shi looked down at the ground for a minute. Then she said, “My mother died when I was a child. My father got me an appointment to the security services. I rose quickly because of his contacts—and I was a fast learner. For a time, I supported the missile program because it was for deterrence. We grew up hating America. We all did. We grew up believing that the American pigs wanted to attack North Korea and spread their immoral, gluttonous values. But when I saw the missiles being shipped to the Middle East, I realized that it would lead to global nuclear war. When I told my father that I must risk my own life to stop this, he became very upset. He cautioned me to keep my mouth shut and do my job. He filled me with fear of consequences. Then, because of my position in the security services, I learned that a shipment of missiles had been hijacked and lost at sea. I knew that I could not keep quiet any more.

“My father and I escaped into China, but a man there tried to blackmail us. He threatened to turn us in to the authorities unless we paid him off.

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