The Treadstone Resurrection by Joshua Hood

Author:Joshua Hood
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-02-24T16:00:00+00:00

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The lights were off when he picked the lock and disabled the alarm,the interior of the house a dull green from his night vision. Hayes stepped through the door, his feet silent over the tile. He climbed the stairs, found a second guard sleeping in a chair on the landing. Hayes guessed he was in his mid-teens, not yet old enough to shave and much too young for the AK-47 propped against the wall.

Kill them all—that was the order. He was just the instrument—a man conditioned to kill without hesitation.

Hayes pressed the MK VI suppressor into the notch below the man’s ear, held his thumb against the slide to keep the .22 from cycling, and pulled the trigger.

The shot was a muted cough barely noticeable over the sound of the television playing at the end of the hall. Hayes pulled the slide to the rear, and the expended brass cartwheeled into the air.

He caught it with his left hand and shoved the brass into his pocket.

He followed a murmur of voices down the hall. A quick glance around the corner revealed a woman sitting on a couch, her back to him. The voices were coming from the telenovela that had her rapt attention.

Hayes slipped up behind her, let her feel his presence.

She held up her empty glass without turning from the TV, and he waited patiently for the shot.

“Diego, what are you—”

The woman turned her head, and Hayes put a bullet through her eye.

One more.

He moved down the hall, drawn to the closed door by the sound of the voice inside. “I don’t care what you have to do, get me out of the country!” President Mateo shouted.

Mateo was sitting at his desk, his back to the door, phone at his ear.

Hayes extended the barrel toward the back of the man’s head, let it hover there for a moment until the man felt his presence and turned.

“You . . .”

The pistol jumped in his hand, the bullet smacking President Mateo in the face and blasting him back into his chair.

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