Kodiak Sky by Stephen Frey

Author:Stephen Frey [Frey, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Espionage, General, War & Military, Political
ISBN: 9781477825358
Google: 4rbDoAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1477825355
Barnesnoble: 1477825355
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-09-29T05:00:00+00:00

FOR WHAT seemed like an eternity, Jack and the kid behind the steering wheel stared at each other over the pickup’s console. The kid had cherry blond hair, a thin face, and bad acne on his chin. He was a baby, Jack realized. He couldn’t be more than seventeen.

Jack brought his hands up and turned away as the kid fired and the gun exploded with a deafening roar. He wondered where he’d been hit as he tumbled backward onto the gravel driveway. Maybe he couldn’t feel the pain yet because of the adrenaline coursing through his body, or maybe he was already dead and this was what it felt like to die. No physical pain, just a terrible sadness.

As Jack struggled to his feet, still trying to figure out if he’d been hit, he heard the kid begging and pleading. And then he realized what had happened as Troy dragged the kid from the vehicle and quickly splayed the boy out on the other side of the gully like a gutted deer. Troy had grabbed the kid at the last second through the driver’s window, causing the round to blast up into the truck’s ceiling.

“What’s your name?” Troy demanded fiercely as Jack came around the front of the pickup and jumped to the bottom of the gully.

“Charlie,” the kid answered, already sobbing. “Charlie Griffin.”

“Is your father Wayne Griffin?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Where is he?”

“They left a few hours ago to do some things.”

“They?” Troy asked.

“Him and a friend.”

“Are you all right?” Jack asked after getting to where Troy and Charlie were. “Are you hit?”

“I’m fine,” Troy snapped as he held the kid down with one hand and pulled the kid’s belt off with the other. “Get his gun. It’s in the truck somewhere.”

By the time Jack found it, Troy had lashed Charlie’s wrists tightly together behind his back with the belt.

“What the hell?” Troy demanded, rising to his feet when he was finished and coming right to where Jack was standing, so he was right in Jack’s face. “Goddamn it, what did I tell you?”

“Shoot first,” Jack answered solemnly. Troy was so right. He’d frozen at the critical moment. “But he’s just a kid.”

“So what? He was gonna kill you.”

“I know,” Jack admitted. He’d never make that mistake again. He’d be a trigger-happy fool from now on. His whole body was starting to shake hard as the reality of what could have just happened sank in. “You saved my life.”

“We’re even for Alaska,” Troy muttered. “Let’s check out the house out. We’ve got to make sure no else is around. Then we’ll interrogate this little shit.”

“What do you mean, ‘interrogate’?”

Troy’s eyes flashed back to Jack’s, and they stared at each other intently for several moments as the kid began to bawl loudly. “I mean,” Troy said deliberately and loudly so Charlie could hear, “that I will use any and every method I have to in order to get any and every piece of information I can out of this young man as fast as possible.

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