The Pacific Conspiracy by Franklin W. Dixon

Author:Franklin W. Dixon [Dixon, Franklin W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780606053396
Google: rgpDAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0671794620
Publisher: Demco Media
Published: 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

For a second no one spoke. Then Endang stepped forward and pointed the Uzi at Boris. "I ought to kill you right now," she said.

The Assassin laughed. "You don't have the nerve."

"And we don't have time," Frank said. Eight seconds had gone by. He'd started counting the instant Joe had fallen in the water. Joe could probably hold his breath for a minute - maybe a little longer if he'd had time to fill his lungs.

"Make him untie me," Frank said. "Then I'll take the gun. You bring Joe up."

Endang nodded, waving the Uzi at Boris. "Untie him."

Boris shrugged. "I don't think so."

"Do it!" Endang screamed. She fired the gun. The bullets carved up the ground around him.

Boris looked at her, shocked.

"Quickly," Frank said. In his head he was still counting. About twenty seconds had passed.

Boris untied him. Endang motioned him away and handed Frank the gun. Thirty seconds.

"Now untie her," Frank said. Boris did. Forty-five seconds. As she stepped up next to him on the canal wall Frank gave Endang the rope the Assassins had used to tie his hands.

"You'll never be able to pull him up, not with his feet trapped in concrete. Tie this around his body. We'll have to pull him out together."

Endang nodded and dived into the canal.

One minute.

One minute five seconds.

"Your brother is dead," Boris taunted. "And you're next."

"Shut up," Frank said. His back was to the canal. Just then he heard Endang surface behind him.

"It's too dark down there!" she yelled. "I can't find him!"

"Try again," Frank said, never taking his eyes off Boris. "He can't have moved too far from the wall."

He heard Endang dive back under.

Boris smiled. "Your brother is dead," he repeated, taking a step forward.

"I'm not even going to give you a warning shot," Frank interrupted, his voice even and controlled. "Take another step in any direction and it'll be your last. If Joe doesn't come up alive," he said, lowering his voice, "you die, anyway."

Boris shrank back. Frank hoped the big man wouldn't call his bluff, although at this point he wasn't so sure it was a bluff.

Then he realized he'd lost count.

He felt helpless. Less than a dozen feet away his brother was drowning.

Endang surfaced again. "I found him!" She boosted herself onto the canal wall beside Frank, rope in hand.

"Use one of those branches," Frank said, nodding in the direction of a huge tree that overhung the canal. Endang draped the rope around the nearest and thickest branch she could find and began pulling.

"Wait a minute," Frank said. "I've got a better idea. Boris will pull."

The Assassin glared as Endang handed him the end of the rope. She held on to the line, too, feeding it to Boris as he began pulling Joe up.

Ten seconds later Frank heard his brother come up out of the water, coughing and gasping for air. Even though he wanted to turn and make sure Joe was okay he kept his gaze fixed on Boris the entire time.

"I've got you," he heard Endang say.

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