Tarzan and the Revolution by Thomas Zachek

Author:Thomas Zachek [Zachek, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781945462177
Google: i8i_tgEACAAJ
Amazon: B07JLQF22M
Goodreads: 42439095
Publisher: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Published: 2018-05-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Attack

By late afternoon of the fifth day out from Opar, the Waziri expedition had crossed the barren, rocky plain and scaled the first range of hills on their journey home. Because of the added burden of the gold upon their backs, the going was more strenuous than it had been on the way out, and to compensate, the men rested more often.

Their path led them up and across a stretch of craggy hills. They had spent most of the morning scaling the rocky escarpments, and when they reached the top of the highest one, they stopped to rest.

It was an extraordinarily beautiful spot, a wide flat open area on the crest of the huge rocky hill, surrounded by jagged outcroppings and scrub brush. At this elevation, the air was pleasantly cooler, though the sky was sunny and nearly cloudless. No better place to rest, they thought. They unslung their harnesses and lay them on the ground. They sat in knots of four or five, idly chatting, enjoying the soft breeze and the feel of the sun on their sore muscles.

Tarzan stood near the edge of the south slope and admired the rugged beauty before him. From both sides of the crest on which he stood, walls of primitive forest sloped down to valleys and basins that were carpeted with verdant trees stretching on for miles before thinning out near the meandering banks of the river sparkling in the sun far below. Beyond the river, the carpet of forest rose and swelled again, only to thin out near the summit of a mountain range in the distance. It was one of the most stunning vistas he had ever beheld.

Dajan joined him and also gazed down at the view for a moment. “Makes you not want to leave, doesn’t it?” he said.

“Yes,” replied Tarzan. “If only we were not on a mission.”

Dajan asked, “Do you think we will make it back in time, Tarzan?”

“At this rate, we should,” the ape man smiled. Then, suddenly, he cocked his head to look up. At nearly the same instant, a tribesman broke off his joking banter in mid-sentence to look up and to the west, and then another turned to look, wide-eyed.

Off in the distance they heard a great humming like the buzz of some giant wasp. The rest of them looked to the west to see, silhouetted against the afternoon sun, three black specks in the sky, growing larger by the moment. Next they heard the distinctive thwump thwump thwump and recognized what was approaching—helicopters!

Three UH-1 “Huey” military helicopters from Obutu’s tiny air force were bearing down on them.

“Take cover!” Dajan shouted. They hastily grabbed their weapons and scattered for the cover of the nearest boulders and brush.

The first copter swooped in like a great bird of prey, except that instead of claws on its talons, it bore high-powered machine guns spraying a hail of bullets that peppered the ground in two deadly parallel trails. Barely a minute passed between the time Tarzan

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