Grant, Maxwell - The Shadow 143 - The Fifth Napoleon by Maxwell Grant

Author:Maxwell Grant
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Suspense, Adventure, Thriller
Publisher: Street & Smith Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THE remainder of that sentence was never uttered. Flame gushed upward in a blinding white dazzle that scorched the tops of the trees. The roar of a gigantic explosion awoke clapping echoes in the hills for miles around.

The explosives contained in the two unopened trunks detonated from the concussion of the first blast.

The trunks, the truck, the sedan, the five men - all vanished in that blinding spout of flame. Not a trace was left - not even a tattered remnant of bleeding flesh.

Where the truck and the sedan had stood was a gaping pit in the earth. The nearest trees were stripped of foliage and split asunder. Blackened trunks hung at crazy angles over the pit in the ground. Fire sputtered aimlessly among wet branches.

High up in the gray sky a hawk flew in long circles. The hawk was the only living thing in a vast wilderness of silence.

It continued to circle in the sky. Like a vulture.

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