Paladine by Kenneth Eade

Author:Kenneth Eade [Eade, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Times Square Publishing
Published: 2016-09-17T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

The warm spring with its refreshing breezes had given way to the assaulting blasts of heat that marked the beginning of the Las Vegas summer. Robert had to set his clock early so he could take a morning run in Sunset Park. Once the sun peeked out above the mountains around 6 a.m., it wouldn’t be long before the entire valley turned into a burning furnace. As he ran, with Butthead trotting at his side, panting and wagging, he contemplated his next move. He looked down at the dog briefly. He knew that this life he had made for himself in Sin City was only temporary. In Robert’s life, everything was expendable. If the terrorists or the feds got too close, he would leave it all in an instant. There was nothing worth fighting for in Robert’s life except for his own survival.

When Robert got in the door, he grabbed a bottle of water and drained it as he listened to the dog gulping water from the bucket faster than it could breathe.

“Slow down, dumbass!”

Robert took the bucket away from the dog, who stood in the place where it had been, choking and heaving.

“I sure as hell gave you the right name. You’re no scholar.” The dog looked up at Robert pitifully, water dripping from his chin like a waterfall in a pond.

Robert illuminated his laptop and continued his planning. The next most important targets (though not sequential) were clustered around the East Coast. It was time for Robert to go home. Most of the arrests so far that had been made by the FBI were of students who had expressed their desire to fight on behalf of ISIS in social media. They were then caught and arrested after the first move toward their plans, such as buying a gun. Nobody knew of Robert’s gun purchases.

Robert selected his next target, a level one suspect by the name of Aasen Al-Zahawi. Zahawi was an ISIS loyalist who was suspected by the FBI to be Al-Baghdadi’s right-hand man in the states. He lived in a one bedroom apartment in Queens, frequented by young people which would, most likely, be heavily guarded. This would be another silent operation. Robert finished his planning, committed it to memory, wiped out his external hard drive with a powerful magnet, then packed for his road trip. Just as he was about to leave the apartment, he realized that, as opposed to his habitude, he could not just walk out the door. He looked at the dog, which stood there like an idiot wagging his tail.

“You know, you’re a royal pain in the ass, that’s what you are.”

Robert did a search for kennels and found one within walking distance.

Robert waved the dog out the door. “Come on, Butthead, let’s go.” The canine followed him faithfully out onto the deck, down the stairs and during the three-block walk to the kennels. Robert paid cash for a week’s stay in advance, plus a little extra to overlook the blank spaces in his application form, and was finally off to New York.

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