The Paris Protection by Bryan Devore

Author:Bryan Devore [Bryan Devore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780985241353
Google: FiEujgEACAAJ
Amazon: B017G07Z2M
Goodreads: 27423308
Publisher: Bryan Devore
Published: 2015-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

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DAVID CLIMBED THROUGH THE DARKNESS, focused on stealth. He could hear the men above yelling to each other as they regrouped. Other than their voices, the shaft was quiet.

He could hear shuffling footsteps, as if they were stepping toward the edge. He had been climbing fast, swinging rhythmically upward as he felt his aggression build.

Locking his left leg to steady his stance, he wrapped his right foot around the ladder and leaned back onto a horizontal I-beam. He was practically invisible in the shadows. He slid an index finger into the center of the Velcro holster so he could pull it apart without much sound. Drawing the P229, he pointed it up at the point in the darkness where he heard the men. He had slapped in a new magazine before making the climb, so he had twelve hollow-point .357 SIG rounds ready to shoot. He had more magazines, but being this close without any real cover meant that if any hostiles were still alive when he ran out, they would easily kill him before he could reload—especially since he was balanced on the ladder in the open air of an elevator shaft.

He peered into the blackness, listening for any sound of the enemy.

Raising the pistol, he trained it on the flicker of light he had seen forty feet above. Something metal was moving and casting a strobelike sparkle from the red emergency light farther above. A gun or a wristwatch or a belt bucket—he didn’t know. But it marked one of his enemies. And a few feet to the left of the flickering, he saw a small cloud of dust particles float down through a sliver of light from the elevator shaft. The dust was probably kicked over the edge by a boot sliding to the end of the shaft platform as another enemy leaned over to prepare the second assault on the group below.

He had these two locked in, and he was afraid that they were about to unleash another wave of gunfire on the president. He couldn’t wait any longer. Even though he had only two of them identified, he had to attack the group now. He prayed there weren’t too many, for once he fired even a few shots, his position would be compromised.

He took a breath and exhaled. Then, with his legs and feet braced on the ladder, and his back against the I-beam, he fired.

Men screamed. Then a spurt of flashes flickered in the darkness as shots came toward him in frenetic, misdirected lines. Bullets snapped and pinged off the metal around him. But none hit him. A man toppled into the shaft and slid down like a large bag falling down a laundry chute.

David relied on his instincts for where to shoot. The light coming from the door into the shaft was now enough to show him where the bulk of the group was. Shooting from a low angle, he aimed at waist level in case they should duck or step back. Having

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