Power by Joe Craig

Author:Joe Craig
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Be careful with my car,” said Viggo, handing Helen the keys.

“Be careful with my son,” was the reply.

Nobody needed to say anything else, but Helen gave Jimmy a last embrace, and a final glare to Viggo. Then she drove the Bentley, alone, out to the power substation at Clapham. It had been a while since she’d been active as a Secret Service operative, but she drove swiftly and it took her only moments to break into the substation. The chain cutters in the back of the Bentley helped too.

The floodlight left nowhere to hide, and within seconds the night guard spotted her on the security camera. But before he could reach for his walkie-talkie, Helen was already in his booth. She ran up behind him so quickly he couldn’t even spin in his chair before Helen seized his wrist and twisted it over his head. The only sounds were three clear cracks of the man’s bones snapping. Helen pressed her hand over his mouth to stifle his cry and lowered him gently to the floor as he passed out from the pain.

In less than a minute, she applied the chain cutters to one of the giant transformer boxes and made tiny adjustments to the rusting controls on the machinery. It wasn’t much, but it was easily enough to trigger the system to regulate itself by compensating in other areas of the grid.

Now all Helen Coates could do was drive back to the rendezvous point, turn on the TV and wait for the others to join her. Phase one of the plan had been completed.

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