Red Hawk Rising by Peter William Hall

Author:Peter William Hall [William Hall, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2020-10-06T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

It was after 12.30 hours and the RAF transport from Luton had reached Peterborough. The drivers decided to have a lunch break and found a suitable transport cafe near town to pick up some hot tea. They pulled into the car park and Andy offered to stay with the vehicle while they got their tea. The two drivers left the vehicle and went in to the cafe. They had been inside about a minute when Andy heard something at the back of the truck. There was a question and the reply was “Da!”

“Russian,” Andy thought and was instantly alert. He crouched down in the cab with his feet toward the door and waited. Footsteps came along the side of the truck and someone grabbed the handle of the cab door, heaved himself up and swung the door open. The man was wearing the uniform of a RAF senior aircraftman and his face registered surprise at seeing Andy. Uncoiling like a spring, Andy’s legs shot out and slammed the door wide open. The intruder fell back off the truck and landed on his back. Levering with his arms, Andy propelled himself out of the truck, landing on the man’s stomach, winding him. The noise brought the truck driver out of the cafe in time to see another man getting into the passenger side of the cab. He yelled for his co-driver and ran towards the truck. Andy turned and pulled himself back up into the cab to be met by a fist to his head. He held onto the back of the driver’s seat to prevent himself from falling off the vehicle. By this time, the co-driver of the truck was running towards the vehicle as well. The driver reached the winded man and kicked him down as he tried to get up, then dropped his full fifteen-stone weight onto the man’s chest and finished by kneeling on him. In the cab, Andy managed to grab the arm of the other intruder, also in RAF uniform, as the man struggled to get out of the cab. The co-driver, seeing the struggle, ran to the passenger side and climbed up. Hanging on with his left hand, he put his arm around the intruder’s neck and then jumped back pulling the man out with him. They both landed in a heap and the intruder pulled himself free and started to run for a vehicle near the back of the truck. It had a driver and the engine running. Andy jumped out backwards and managed to avoid the two men on the ground. He then took off at a run for the rear of the truck to head the man off. The driver of the vehicle accelerated towards Andy, meaning to run him down but the moment before impact, Andy jumped into the air and landed on the bonnet of the car. The momentum made him fall and slam into the windscreen of the car, blocking the driver’s view and the car changed course and veered towards the men on the ground.

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