The Sam Reilly Collection Volume 3 by Christopher Cartwright

Author:Christopher Cartwright [Cartwright, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2018-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

Sam’s eyes rolled across the numbers, in disbelief.

“That’s the one. That’s our container.” He spoke the words softly, frightened whoever was looking for the same container was still out there, listening.

Tom asked, “Any idea how we’re going to remove it?”

“No. It would be impossible to shift something that size to the surface without anyone detecting it. Better we open the container up, and remove whatever’s inside.”

“Didn’t the Secretary of Defense say something about the shipping container having some sort of state of the art security system?”

Sam said, “There’s always a way in.”

“She’s going to be pissed.”

Sam nodded. They would deal with that when they got to it. He walked around to the end of the container. It was a solid steel wall. He then kept walking and reached the opposite end. Again, there was a solid wall of steel, with no apparent gaps.

Tom smiled. “You were saying, about there always being a way in?”

“Okay, so someone made the effort to secure this one,” Sam acknowledged.

He ran his hand along the edge of the container and stopped. His eyes turned to a small, covered metallic casing that protected what appeared to be a security keypad.

Sam tentatively opened the metallic outer cover. It swung upward and revealed a standard seventeen key digital keypad. Ten digits with seven modifier keys. He didn’t need to try and work out the math. There were potentially millions of alternative combinations. Any way he looked at it, he and Tom were never going to guess the code.

Tom smiled, sympathetically. “There’s always a way in to these things, are there?”

“All right, I might have been wrong about that. Come on, let’s return to the surface. I’m sure our friend Gallagher the foreman will have some sort of tool he might loan us to cut a hole in the shipping container.”

“Okay, mind if I have a go?”

“At what?”

“I’m a pretty lucky kind of guy. I thought…”

Sam grinned. “What? You thought you might just guess the code?”

Tom shrugged. “Sure, why not? We’re going to have to cut our way in anyway, so why not try?”

“Suit yourself.” Sam stepped away. “But you’re more likely to win the lotto than break this code.”

“You’re probably right.” Tom studied the keypad and typed a total of six numbers, followed by six alternative numbers, such as plus and minus and asterisks at random.

Nothing happened.

Sam said. “It looks like you guessed wrong.”

“Or maybe I just need to press enter?”

“Come on. Let’s get back to the surface, I’m wrecked. I could use some sleep.”

Tom pressed enter.

A moment later the sound of heavy hydraulic locks started to move from inside the shipping container. He smiled broadly. “Well, what do you know… it says I’m a winner!”

Sam turned to face the shipping container. His eyes widened and he opened his mouth to speak. The last of the hydraulic locks completed their movements and the massive vaulted door slowly automatically opened in front of him. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”

Tom smiled, gloating like a bad winner at cards. “Beginner’s luck?”

“How did you know?” Sam persisted.

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