Thunder in the East by Maloney Mack

Author:Maloney, Mack [Maloney, Mack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781480406698
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2013-04-24T16:37:00+00:00

CHAPTER 44

“BOOKS?” JONES EXCLAIMED OVER the radio. “What the hell are they doing hauling ‘books’ around?”

“Beats me,” Hunter told him, adjusting the radio’s tuning knob to get rid of some pesky static. “But that’s what they were carrying. A trailer full of books. About eight thousand in all …”

It was about an hour after Shane had reported the find. He, Hunter, Ben and Yaz beat their brains out trying to come up with a logical reason as to why the Soviets would assign their top special teams to escort convoys of tractor trailers carrying books. But it was a fruitless session—there seemed to be no logical answer.

“Did Shane say what kind of books they were?” Jones asked.

“All kinds,” Hunter told him. “Hard covers. Paperbacks. Large print, small print. Everything from the Bible to some skin books. Even had a bunch of cookbooks …”

Hunter could just imagine seeing Jones, brow furrowed, fingers twirling, trying as he had to figure out what it all meant.

“And should we assume that these trucks, the same ones hidden under Football City, are all filled with books?” he asked Hunter through a field of static.

“At this point, who knows?” Hunter answered. “We’ll just have to hook another one and find out …”

There was a short pause, then Jones asked him: “Is this the craziest thing we’ve run up against yet, Hawk?”

Hunter didn’t answer right away; they’d seen some pretty crazy things since the New Order came into force.

“It’s certainly in the running for Number One,” he finally replied.

Nearly 800 miles away, in the old nation’s capital of Washington, DC, a massive traffic jam was in the making.

There were soldiers on every corner—Circle Army troops mostly—trying their best to direct traffic. But it was proving to be an impossible task. Even the man responsible for control of the city, a Spetsnaz General named Andrei Yetimov, had spent the last two days tearing around the streets in his staff car, trying to unsnarl the city’s gridlock, but all to no avail.

It was just an oversight, though now one of potentially serious, if not frustrating, ramifications. No one in the planning stages—no Soviet or Circle officer—had realized what a problem the traffic would become.

And so it went on for days, as the thousands of trucks from all of the eastern half of the continent converged on Washington, pulling trailers loaded with books …

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