Quicker by Laurence E Dahners

Author:Laurence E Dahners [Dahners, Laurence E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, High Tech
ISBN: 9781477629635
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

To his amazement, Jamal found himself one of the leaders of the team sent to create terror at the Olympics. Hamid of the crooked nose, who had terrorized Jamal at the training camp, was the actual leader. Jamal served more as a guide to America, but the fact that they consulted him before every move made him feel like a leader. Before returning to Tucson he was questioned endlessly as they deliberated over possible targets. They considered and discarded a plan to bomb the Olympic stadium. “Bomb sniffing” had become quite the art in America and even if they did set one off, the audience would have many foreign nationals. It would likely kill some Muslims as well and, although the dead would go to Allah as martyrs, it would create dissension amongst those who were weak of faith.

Setting off a bomb elsewhere in Dallas would be easier and they could arrange it to be in an area where only infidels would be found. A Christian church seemed a good choice. This plan foundered on the desire to devastate America in front of the world audience for Olympic contests. No, they decided, they must kill Olympic athletes, preferably some from the American team alone. Jamal searched on the internet and determined that the teams were to stay in housing dormitories away from the actual sports complex and would be bussed to the complex on a daily basis.

Jamal returned to Tucson but then caught his flight to Dallas the next day. He arrived before any of the others and using a false identity rented a Suburban SUV and rooms in a disreputable apartment building. He picked up two more “martyrs” at the airport and dropped them off at the apartments. Hamid and the other five members of the team were unable to get visas to enter the country legally. Hamid had emailed Jamal GPS coordinates and Jamal let the truck’s AI take him to a road near the specified location. Then he dutifully drove the SUV according to his AI’s directions, first on a dirt road and then off even that road into the desert near the border with Mexico. He parked when he reached the specified coordinates, rolled down the windows and turned off the lights. At first he sat alertly, staring into the night but eventually boredom set in. He reclined the seat back and dozed off.

Something cold bumped his ear and he woke to the realization that it was a gun muzzle! “Bala'a il a'air.” Hamid growled in garlicky Arabic. “I could have killed you! Wake up!”

“Sorry.” Jamal said, rubbing his eyes and sitting up. The doors of the SUV opened and it rapidly filled with the six men. Several heavy boxes went into the back. Jamal’s nose was assaulted by the smell of sweaty unwashed men. He started the vehicle and turned it around for the long drive back to Dallas.

Hamid sat in the passenger seat. “You have a place for us to stay?”

“Yes, in a slum, all the nice locations are full because of the Olympics.

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