Operation Starvation (KM 017) by Nick Carter

Author:Nick Carter [Carter, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-09-25T07:28:19+00:00

Chapter 10

THE HOTEL NEVADA

THE DOOR in front of him was getting larger now. The shots from behind him were coming closer, too. Nick held the wheel with all the immense strength in his powerful arms and shoulders. He braced himself against the seat and trod hard on the gas at the last second before impact, his eyes narrowed against the shock. The door continued to get larger. What happened next would depend on how heavy the wood was.

The forklift hit the wooden door and Nick felt the shock in every bone and muscle in his body. He heard the crash of the motor smashing into the wood and the ripping noise of tearing wood as the blades struck through the planks of the door. The machine went barreling through right into the building. It was a huge room in a butcher shop. By the dim light of a single bulb burning somewhere off to the front of the shop, he could make out the shadowy forms of row upon row of carcasses hung on hooks like a strange dry-cleaning shop.

When he had the forklift far enough into the shop so that anyone coming in couldn’t use it for protection, he switched off the power and went back toward the door. They’d be coming in after him any second now. Get the first couple of men who rush the door and then they’d lay off for awhile. It was the kind of judgment you learned in the hard school of experience, and if you lived through that school the lessons saved your life later on. He upended a heavy chopping, table, got down behind it and waited.

When they did come they played it cool. Two of them, one on each side of the door in low rolling dives toward the protecting shadows. The theory was that Nick couldn’t get them both. It was a poor theory. He could and did. One of them stirred and attempted to crawl farther into the shadows. Nick peered more attentively down the barrel of the Luger and its report reverberated through the building. The Chinese agent stopped crawling and lay still.

There was silence from outside. The Chinese would have to start recruiting soon if Johnny Wu didn’t use his manpower more carefully. Nick, behind the butcher block, thought what he would do if he were in the Chinese’s shoes. The obvious thing was to encircle the building. After that they would break in at the front and charge him from both sides.

There had to be a Way out. The Geiger counter lay in the alley somewhere, but the last emanations had been signaled from this building. If Kathy Lin had gotten in and out of here, then he could too.

Unfortunately they weren’t going to give him time to look. Already he could hear the muffled sound of glass being broken in the front of the building. Decisive, Nick decided, was the word for Johnny Wu. With equal speed of decision Nick abandoned the butcher block and crept down the long alley of hanging carcasses to the front of the shop.

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