The Sinkiang Executive by Adam Hall

Author:Adam Hall [Hall, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Military, Espionage, Fiction, General, Aviation
ISBN: 9780061005336
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1978-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

and military speed this Finback used three thousand gallons per hour and I couldn’t sustain this speed for more than nine minutes longer. Three seconds. Stray thought Resist: irrelevant. The missile had canted over to the vertical and was well clear of the launcher and from this distance it looked like a white telegraph pole rising from the background of low hills. The warhead would not be nuclear because you can kill off any given aircraft with a prescribed minimal charge of conventional explosive but the result would be as effective and I became aware of my position here in the air and my relationship with the data streaming into the senses: the undulating hills and the idea of green grass and the summertimes of youth, kite-flying under the drifting cumulus; the sound of the engines that were driving me so tumultuously across the planet’s surface towards the point of extinction; the feel of the pressure suit and the back of the seat connecting me to the mundane world of engineering while the psyche began its last long scream of terror inside the organism. Two seconds. Stray thought persisting: yes , it had been the time factor I’d been overlooking since I’d breached the invisible frontier and entered Soviet airspace unmolested, because these people were now ordered to kill and they must therefore be certain who I was. They would deal with a rebellious pilot of their own forces less drastically, leading him down with their interceptors or simply waiting till he ran out of fuel: the quartermaster general of the Soviet Air Command would know better than anyone how much these aircraft cost and they weren’t to be thrown away. So now I knew this: that the element of intelligence that had out paced me from Furstenfeldbruck had now been examined and assessed and was still in time to hurl a missile into the sky above Yelingrad. Behrendt had broken. One second. Behrendt had broken and not long ago, holding out as far as the edge of lunacy and at the final moment saving enough of his mind for them to ravage. When did this aircraft take-off ? Pain beyond comprehension, the body disintegrating. What is its mission ? If I tell them, what will be left of me to go on living? Is the pilot an American ? Stop just let them stop just let them stop just let them stop. Throw water. Quickly throw more water. So that was the time factor I’d got wrong. When I’d crossed the frontier without drawing their fire I’d assumed that security had never been breached, that Behrendt was no longer a threat. But at that time they were still working on him and he’d broken only an hour ago, or half an hour, in time for the information to be flashed through the priority signals network and trigger the long white cylinder that was gliding upward and towards me now, curving slowly into the windscreen with the silence of a shark.

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