The Malacca Conspiracy by Don Brown

Author:Don Brown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Strait of, Indonesia - Presidents, Zack (Fictitious character), Brewer, Malacca, Indonesia, Political, Fiction, United States, Suspense, War & Military, Thrillers, Suspense fiction, General, Nuclear terrorism
ISBN: 9780310411765
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2010-06-15T01:13:35+00:00

Gag Island

3:25 p.m.

Captain Hassan Taplus, army of the Indonesian Republic, was wearing dark sunglasses and standing on the shores of the beach with his back to the sea.

Light swells lapped just a few feet from where he had buried his heels partially into the sand, and he brought his hand up to his eyebrows, palm down, almost in the gesture of a salute to shade his eyes from the bright overhead sun.

The ugly monstrosity standing against the island's luscious, tropical beauty rose perhaps fifty feet in the air, and closely resembled a rapidly erected observation tower. Four gray steel poles dug deeply into the sand made the corners of a square at the base, and looking something like a giant erector set, rose into the blue sky and supported a square steel platform at the top.

On the platform, electronic equipment and an arming mechanism had been bolted in place. Suspended in the air below the platform, about fifteen feet from the top, the bomb hung from four thick chains. An array of cords, bound together in a single strand by some sort of heavy-duty duct tape, hung down from the center of the platform.

One nuclear engineer was standing on a catwalk perhaps thirty-five feet off the ground, making an adjustment to the bomb with a screw-driver.

The other engineers were standing on the beach, pointing toward the tower, laughing and carrying on as if they had just passed their final examinations before graduating from university.

It would soon become evident whether they had passed or not.

The last nuclear engineer was now making his way down the ladder to the beach. His feet hit the sand, then he turned and started walking rapidly straight toward Taplus. The engineer grinned as he approached. "Our work is complete, sir. The bomb is armed, ticking, and set to go off in a little more than an hour. I suggest that we get out of here!"

"Good work, Lieutenant," Taplus said. "Very well. Everybody to the choppers! Let's get to the ship! On the double! Move! Move!"

Five minutes later, the first of two helicopters lifted off the tropical paradise. Hassan looked down at the splendor of Allah's breathtaking beauty. A sailboat, perhaps a thirty-footer, cut through the seas about a mile off shore. Probably Australian.

The poor fools had sailed into the wrong place at the wrong time.

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