Operation: Midnight Escape by Linda Castillo

Author:Linda Castillo [Castillo, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-31T12:48:23+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Jake was out of the office and sprinting through the snow toward the old truck even before he hit the end button. He grabbed a big, flathead screwdriver from the truck’s bed, twisted it into the nearest bullet hole and pried open the sheet metal. Sure enough a flat, black plastic device clung like melted rubber to the interior mechanics of the driver’s-side door.

Praying Devlin had been wrong, he shone the flashlight on the tiny device, surprised to see that his hands were shaking. Even with the naked eye, he could see the copper wiring and solder of the miniature GPS chip.

“Damn it!”

He stood in the lightly falling snow, trying to decide what to do. All the while his eyes scanned the black abyss of the fields and woods surrounding the old grain elevator. He had a bug sweeper that would pick up even the faintest radio frequency, but he’d left it in the Hummer. Should he try to locate and re move the remaining chips? Or should he wake Leigh and make a run for it and hope Rasmussen’s thugs weren’t within shooting distance?

But it was too cold to get far on foot. He had no choice but to make a sweep of the vehicle and pray he could get every transmitter before they got ambushed.

Starting at the driver’s door, Jake swept the flashlight beam over the sheet metal and quickly worked his way toward the rear. He found two additional bullet holes but no transmitters. Not all of the gunmen had been shooting transmitters. He pried open a bullet hole in the tailgate and found a second transmitter and tossed it into the snow. By the time he’d worked his way around the entire truck, he’d located four GPS transmitters.

But if Rasmussen’s thugs knew their location, why hadn’t they been ambushed?

Jake set his hand against the pistol tucked into his waistband as he jogged back to the building. He went through the front door, then shoved open the office door. He focused the beam where Leigh had been sleeping.

“We need to leave,” he said.

His blood turned to ice when he realized she was gone.

LEIGH HAD NEVER LIKED camping for the sole reason that forests didn’t come with restroom facilities. Since Jake had been nowhere in sight when she’d wakened a few minutes earlier, she’d made it a point to find a private spot as far away from the grain elevator as safely possible.

Grumbling, she took care of business and was on her way back when the sound of shoes crunching through snow behind her stopped her in her tracks. The thought that it was only Jake walking the perimeter flashed in her mind. But when she spun and saw a man with a gun, she knew venturing out alone had been a very bad idea.

Leigh flung herself into a run. “Jake!” She’d taken only a few strides when the man caught her in a flying tackle, his weight knocking her to the ground.

She went down hard. Unable to break her fall, she got a faceful of snow.

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