Killer Waves (Lewis Cole Book 4) by Brendan DuBois

Author:Brendan DuBois [DuBois, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing
Published: 2023-09-04T16:00:00+00:00

14

No time to think, no time to debate, no time to look about and say out loud, "What the hell was that?"

I dropped to the asphalt on my belly and rolled underneath my Ford Explorer, and when I got to the other side I sat up against the front tire, where a whole lot of engine and steel and other heavy things were between me and my assailant. I scrambled underneath my coat and pulled out my Beretta, finding it extremely heavy. I laid it across my knees, tried to remember how to breathe. A bit of tradecraft from Felix popped into my head. "Sometimes you get into things, you don't have the luxury of figuring out what in hell is going on. So you default to your primary response. Which is saving your hide. A number of years ago I was at this party in West Roxbury and this lovely young lady was putting the moves on me. She really wanted me to stay, but I was rude and left her and the party. Couldn't explain it, couldn't put my finger on it, but something was making me uneasy. So I bailed out and I'm glad I did. Later I found out that there were a couple of guys in the basement with ropes and blowtorches who were waiting for this fine young lady to bring me down. So always go to the basic. Protect yourself. Even if you piss off some people and look foolish."

Well, I certainly might have looked foolish scrambling underneath my Ford, but at least I was breathing and my body was unpunctured. And as for pissing somebody off, I think I had done that a while earlier. Maybe Keith had come back, ready to come through on his promise.

I sat there breathing hard, the trembling beginning to ease some in my hands, when I heard the sounds of sirens. They seemed to be coming my way, which was surprising, unless some passing tourist had seen me with a pistol in my hand, which I didn't think had happened.

There was also the chance that someone had heard the gunfire that caused me to perform my groundhog imitation, but I was thinking that was also unlikely, since I hadn't heard the shot either.

Which meant somebody had been out there, gunning for me, with a silencer-equipped rifle.

I took another deep breath and listened as the sirens got louder.

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