The Pirate Hunters by Mack Maloney

Author:Mack Maloney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781429934169
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

THE VIDYNUT SLOWLY sailed its way out of the storm by morning, riding out the last of the wind and surviving the final gigantic waves.

The sky cleared, and the last stars of the night came into view. Off on the eastern horizon, the first rays of dawn were poking through the remaining wisps of the storm clouds.

The pirates on the bridge all breathed a sigh of relief. The worst had passed. They could now proceed with their plan.

The pirates had planned the taking of the Vidynut for months. They’d monitored the Indian Navy’s public Web site, where the admirals bragged about their new warship and its sea trials and how the revolutionary vessel would be available for foreign sales someday.

This particular gang of pirates—the Swoomi Clan—had hijacked cargo ships off Africa before and had extracted million-dollar ransoms in return of vessels and crews. It sounded like a lot of money, but after dividing it up among the pirate hierarchy, their clan leaders, the Muslim radicals who provided them with the weapons and fuel, and the Eastern Europe an cartels that handled the negotiations, there wasn’t a lot left to go around.

That’s when they’d hit on the idea of taking the Vidynut, knowing that for the same amount of work, and just a little more travel, they could hold the warship for tens of millions of dollars—with no middlemen looking for a cut.

They had prepared very carefully for the takeover, attending to every detail, right down to how they would get rid of the crew. As a way of making their reputation, part of their plan was to videotape the crew’s execution and then release the tape to the jihadist media, where they knew it would get widespread airplay and garner their gang a lot of respect.

What they hadn’t anticipated was their video camera’s battery pack running out of power. Originally, they were going to execute the crew the night they took over the ship. But with no power for the video, the crew’s death sentence had to be postponed.

But now, with the storm subsiding and the camera’s battery pack charged again, it was time to move to this next step.

“Start bringing them up,” the gang leader told his men as soon as he detected those first rays of sunlight peeking over the horizon. “We’ll do them five at a time.”

His men responded by pulling back the safeties on their AK-47s.

But the top pirate held up his hand.

“But we won’t waste bullets,” he said. He pulled his razor-sharp machete from his belt. “We’ll cut them to death instead.”

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