Masked Prey by John Sandford

Author:John Sandford [Sandford, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9780525539520
Google: 7lu2yAEACAAJ
Amazon: B07WQPHD3M
Goodreads: 52419356
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2020-04-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

ELEVEN

Dunn was at work with his crew before the sun poked over the horizon on Monday, hustled all morning, pushed the crew through lunch, and quit at one o’clock, a full day’s work done. By three he was at his cabin and by five o’clock had satisfied himself that one of Stokes’s rifles, a Colt LE6920 in .223 with a variable power scope, would do the job.

The smaller rifle was more comfortable to shoot than his .308, with a much crisper trigger, and also had a snap-down bipod as a shooting support. Altogether, he was significantly more accurate with it. By the end of the shooting session, he was keeping all of his shots on the twelve-by-eighteen-inch paper, many grouping around the bull. He kept in mind that he didn’t actually have to kill the kid, he only had to hit him or come close.

Stokes’s second rifle, also a .223, had a more radical, skeletonized look, but didn’t have a scope, and Dunn didn’t want to learn how to mount one, or take the time to do it.

When he finished with the shooting, he sat in the cabin and cleaned the rifle, scrubbing out the bore, putting a light coat of lubricant on the mechanical parts, then wiping those down. As he worked, he continually flashed on the plan, and on his place in history, even if that place, with good luck, turned out to be anonymous.

Probably wouldn’t be admired. He would be shooting a kid. The effect, though, would be critical: the planners of 1919 would change history, dragging the nation away from catastrophe . . .

Maybe, he thought, he could leave a will that disclosed his part in the program. Or a letter locked in a safe, so that his name would be known.

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