Saucer: Savage Planet by Stephen Coonts

Author:Stephen Coonts [Coonts, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781466839212
Google: 3NhCAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1250061989
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2014-04-01T07:00:00+00:00

12

Johnny Murk and Harrison Douglas got back to Connecticut eventually. The military dropped them in Duluth, and they rode Johnny Murk’s private jet to Connecticut. They were in a foul mood when they arrived. Solo and the Cantrells had made monkeys of them, not to mention nearly killing them with a near-miss flyby of the saucer.

“The government is after those bastards, and with all their assets, we’ll always get there late,” Johnny Murk said.

The FBO bar was closed and locked, so Johnny had brought a bottle of Scotch from his plane. The two were sitting alone in the lounge drinking it neat from paper cups. Heidi the masseuse was sacked out on one of the couches, dead to the world, with her magnificent breasts pointed straight at heaven. The pink sunrise through the windows was gorgeous. Neither Murk nor Douglas paid any attention to any of these attractions.

“There is just no way we can get to Solo before the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Boy Scouts.”

Murkowsky’s cell phone buzzed. He pulled it from his pocket, checked to see who the caller was and immediately answered. “Yes.”

He listened for a while, asked no questions and ended the conversation with a curt, “Keep me informed.”

He stood to pocket the phone and looked around as if seeing his surroundings for the first time.

“Well?” Douglas asked.

“My Space Command spy. The saucer is in Western Australia. No doubt about it. The White House has been informed, but nothing is happening in Washington that he knows about.”

“Oh, hell, the prez probably called the Aussie PM and the diggers are on their way right now to bag ’em and tag ’em.”

Johnny Murk turned on the television in the corner of the room, and the two men stood in front of it. Of course, the picture was of the saucer suspended over the White House lawn. Then the video switched to the quarter million or more people gathered in the streets. A sea of people. After three minutes of listening to the delicious female anchor—she never mentioned the Cantrells’ saucer—talk about the rising excitement, the fact that the police had sealed off the city and the media’s demand that the president appear before their cameras to tell the world what was happening, the network began to air man-in-the-street interviews. Everyone interviewed was absolutely certain that aliens would soon arrive. They wanted to be there for this historic occasion. The excitement and anticipation were palpable.

The two pharma moguls looked at each other.

They turned back to the television, which now aired a moment of Jim Bob Spicer praying for salvation for all the earth’s people.

“It’s like they’re waiting for the Second Coming,” Johnny Murk murmured.

“It’s a ten-ring circus,” Douglas proclaimed.

“Bet you that no one in the White House has bothered to tell State to call the Aussies.”

They looked at each other again. Simultaneously they both said, “What are we waiting for?”

Galvanized into action, each man grabbed his cell phone. Douglas called his friends in Philadelphia and promised big money; Murk chartered a Boeing 747-400 to fly a crowd across the Pacific.

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