Let Slip the Dogs of War: A Bard's Bed & Breakfast Mystery #1 by Barton Sara M

Author:Barton, Sara M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shakespeare, vermont, syrian war cia iran russia
Publisher: Sara M. Barton

Chapter Eleven --

I huddled in the cover of the pine trees, listening, watching, wondering what would come next. I could hear the little bear cubs wandering through the woods, looking for their mama, and it made me feel like hog-tying Anas to a tree, smothering him with honey, and letting all the bears in the Vermont forest have at him. What kind of bastard shoots a black bear that’s only being a black bear? It was gratuitous violence that served no purpose, other than to make him feel powerful. He had a gun. He used it. He was king of the forest, until someone else with a bigger gun came along. Nizar probably would have concurred, if he wasn’t so dead.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw Anas dialing his phone yet again. Perhaps he was calling Ben. I wondered if he assumed his little game worked out just fine. If so, he probably wasn’t expecting Ben’s response, whatever that might be. I began to imagine what my husband would do to rescue me. Perhaps he would arrive at the end of a rope, repelled from a helicopter. Or he would descend on the scene with a caravan of 4-wheel-drive emergency response vehicles filled to the gills with men in black. I had no doubt that whatever Ben’s plan was, it would be a doozy.

“Vasily, it is Yuri. I need you to brief Voinovich. Yes, yes, I know. Homeland Security will hold Grapon for several days. No, Jones is still convinced that Grapon was involved in Fatima’s death. Here’s what I need you to do. Bring a couple of guys and meet me in the woods. Jones’ wife got away and we have to find her, because she is our leverage. Forget about the old man! Jones is a professional. He knows Edward will sacrifice himself and fall on the sword to protect him. The only person Jones will try to protect is his wife, and I have her boxed in here. Leave the Bard’s and get your ass over here now. You come in from the west with Alexi. Have Serge come in from the east with Petra. Tell Boris to meet me on the dirt road. We will either drive her further into the woods or we will find her, but she will not go home tonight. No, I had to eliminate Nizar. I have a contingency plan. If we can’t capture her, we will tell Jones we have her and force him onto a plane. We’ll just kill her when we find her, at our leisure. But we must get that package into the air as soon as possible, in Jones’ hand. We want the death of the CIA’s station chief to look like revenge by Jones. When the package arrives, it will also be destroyed, and Hashim will turn on Jamil. We will have the minister in our pocket to do our bidding, and we will knock out the Iranians at the same time.”

I sat back on my fanny, stunned by the turn of the conversation.

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