The Narrow Gate by Scott Nicholson

Author:Scott Nicholson [Nicholson, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, ghost, Occult & Supernatural, Thrillers, supernatural, Fiction, Suspense, Horror, Paranormal
ISBN: 9781626470590
Google: LgLYCQAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 20408851
Publisher: Haunted Computer Books
Published: 2014-02-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Alex surveyed the perimeter from the small glass windows along the front of his house. All clear for now, and Meredith was waiting tables on the night shift at the Ruby Tuesday’s in Titusville. He finally took time to ponder his encounter of the day before, not distracted by her silly needs.

Goats as government conspiracy. It finally made sense to Alex. That’s just how they would do it, come at him in the most unpredictable way possible. If only he had an Internet connection, he could go into some of the freedom organization chat rooms and learn from the fighters on the front lines. The government was tapped into every web server in the country, and in big underground caverns near Washington, D.C., NSA agents sat before banks of computers, monitoring every e-mail and phone record, surfing for people like Alex.

The enemy within.

If the government was behind the whole thing, then the man in the black suit must be some sort of genetic freak, the result of a secret experiment gone wrong. The fact that he was prowling near the Eakins compound meant only thing: they were on to him.

Four years of tax evasion wasn’t that serious of a crime, not when Congress was busy stealing billions, but it was the principle of the thing. They didn’t care about the money, they just didn’t want word to get out that the government could be cheated and was therefore vulnerable. What better way to catch your enemy off guard than to come disguised as a backwoods preacher?

Except this preacher had been eaten alive. Even if he was an FBI agent in disguise, such a stunt took some effort. Maybe they used some sort of hologram. Classic brainwashing technique involved challenging the subject’s notion of reality and eventually replacing reality with the desired set of beliefs. Alex nodded to himself, finished twisting a pinkie-sized joint, and lit up. He liked that answer better. Sure, he was paranoid, and like any free-thinking man, he had good reason. But he wasn’t crazy.

With the joint hanging from lips a la Bogart in “Casablanca,” he made his way to the back room, a space barely larger than a walk-in closet. He unlocked the two Case dead bolts and entered, searching for the candles he kept on an overhead shelf. Lighting one, he stood before his shrine: a wall covered with small arms firepower.

His pride and joy was an AKR submachine gun, a favorite deadly toy of the Russian special forces that held 160 rounds. Alex traded four pounds of seedless buds for the short-barreled gun, worth about eight grand on the street. The lethal and compact grace of the gun appealed to him as much as its country of origin. Not that the Russians could be trusted, either, but at least they were less cunning in their oppression.

Then there was the Swiss SIG 510 assault rifle. The good old Swiss claimed neutrality, but during every war of note, the country served as a clearinghouse for whatever loot happened to be pillaged by the victor.

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