The Silent Vulcan by James Follett

Author:James Follett [Follett, James]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32.

ALTHOUGH MALONE HAD HAD little time to organize the raid on Pentworth House, the plans were going well. By 1:00am, three hours after the discovery that Vikki, Ellen and Claire were missing, he had mustered a 100-strong force crowded into Pentworth police station. Rather than risk a telephone operator in the exchange tipping off Roscoe that something was up, all the men had been summoned by radio, using a code word, or by a door-to-door knock-up.

Malone used a pointer to indicate photographs taped to the wall. "Ellen Duncan, Vikki Taylor and Claire Lake," he said. "They're the three women that we have reason to believe have been abducted to Pentworth House. Sorry the pics are a bit small. We won't be leaving here for another two hours so you've got plenty of time for a closer look. The primary purpose of the operation is to recover these three women, unharmed. Please keep that in the forefront of your minds at all times." He moved the pointer to pictures of Roscoe and Faraday. "These gentlemen need no introduction from me. They are to be arrested. Do be careful with Faraday, he's nursing a broken right arm, courtesy of myself, and may be a little fragile. I should hate him to get even more broken."

Laughter greeted Malone's words.

"He can be dangerous," he warned, and turned to a large scale plan of Pentworth House's floors. "Okay. How many of you know the interior layout of Pentworth House?"

Carol Sandiman noted the names of those who put their hands up and quizzed them in low tones about their knowledge.

"Pentworth House is too big for shock entry tactics to be effective," Malone continued. "It's no good breaking down doors and charging in like a herd of stampeding bison. We need to get all our teams onto all the floors and have the place secured before they know what's hit them. This is going to be a strict softy-softly op. Pentworth House has a lot of bare board corridors so you'll all be wearing bits of torn-up blankets over your shoes and boots. No staffs -- they'll just get in the way. Whatever you've got in the way of body armour and night sticks."

"How about some tooling-up, sir? We've got plenty of kit."

"Definitely not," said Malone. "I'm certain that all their firearms were handed over as part of the amnesty deal. We've certainly accounted for all of them. If a gun goes off, we'll know it's not one of ours. Your best weapons are surprise, followed by your torch, followed by your Captor." He held up an aerosol of the concentrated gas. "But we've only got ten aerosols so I'll be issuing most of them to the group that will be dealing with Roscoe's heavies."

Malone spoke for a further twenty minutes, outlining the details of the operation and answering questions. Many of the queries raised highlighted potential problems for which countermeasures were discussed and decided upon.

At the end the men were divided into three primary groups. Those with a knowledge of Pentworth House's layout were distributed among all the groups.

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