Beirut Payback: MacK Bolan by Don Pendleton Read Free Book Online
Authors: Don Pendleton
not discount the possibility that he might accomplish all he wanted and still withdraw undetected until his work was discovered in the morning. That would be ideal if Strakhov wasn't here and the track led somewhere else.
He almost made the shadows at the back wall of the headquarters building when three bearded soldiers in Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniform of hooded parka, knit hat and camou fatigues stepped from the back door of the building toting assault rifles. The Executioner figured they were sentries on their way to relieve one of the foot patrols.
Bolan saw them well before the Shiite fanatics saw his shadow emerge at them from the night. Then three sets of eyes widened in panicky reaction, and three mouths started to curse or shout something.
But before their rifles could swing up, Bolan knelt in a two-handed shooting crouch and the Beretta quietly sneezed its 9mm death buzzers.
The 3-round death burst sent the trio tumbling off their feet, piling lifelessly into one another.
Bolan continued past without slowing, gaining the door the three men had just stepped from. As he opened the door he realized he could save the play if he moved fast enough.
He found himself in a hallway leading to the front foyer of what appeared to have been a private home before the cannibals moved in and commandeered the building from its owners.
An IRG member stepped into the hallway inquiringly, drawn by the sounds of the commotion outside in the early-morning silence.
The soldier met Bolan eye to eye.
Bolan didn't stop for this one, either. His left hand grabbed the guy's throat, and he rammed the man's head backward against the doorframe hard enough to kill him.
The soldier collapsed, blood trickling from his ears and matted hair to the wood behind him.
Bolan extended his right arm through the doorway of the Orderly Room. As he sailed past he drilled two sleepy-eyed soldiers who started to get up but plopped right back down with tunnels cored through their heads.
The Executioner kept moving.
He reached the foyer and started up some stairs he found there.
The lights he'd seen from this house had come from both levels.
He fed a fresh clip into the Beretta, taking the treaders three at a time.
Survival depended solely on how fast he moved. His presence had only been detected by those he killed. But those bodies could be discovered anytime. And the patrolling sentries would soon begin to worry about their reliefs' delay.
The hallway on the second level was lined with closed doors. Through an archway to Bolan's right dim light filtered into the corridor along with a male voice chanting something in Arabic.
Bolan approached the archway, pressing himself to the wall. No one showed his face as Bolan stealthily breached the distance, the Beretta still in his fist.
The men beyond that passageway must have felt secure with the guards outside and downstairs in the Orderly Room.
The only way this thing played to Bolan was that something important had to be going down for 3:30 A.m. activity.
He reached the archway and crouched well below eye level of anyone in the room around the entrance frame.
The voice in Arabic took on a cadence like a prayer.
Bolan stole a glance around the edge of the wall.
His trained eye sized it all up with one sweep.
Six men.
Ib Masudi.
The slight stature of the Iranian commander did nothing to lessen the cruelty that glittered from eyes like black marbles separated by a hook nose. The Shiite general was in full IRG uniform.
That made this an official briefing.
The four men across a table from General Masudi were in mufti but wore Disciples of Allah armbands. One of them was an older man with gray in his beard, most likely the Disciples' military liaison. The others were younger, with the wary body language of street fighters. The terrorists and the general all wore holstered pistols.
They had unrolled and were studying large pieces of paper on the low table.
Blueprints.
Bolan took in the
He almost made the shadows at the back wall of the headquarters building when three bearded soldiers in Iranian Revolutionary Guard uniform of hooded parka, knit hat and camou fatigues stepped from the back door of the building toting assault rifles. The Executioner figured they were sentries on their way to relieve one of the foot patrols.
Bolan saw them well before the Shiite fanatics saw his shadow emerge at them from the night. Then three sets of eyes widened in panicky reaction, and three mouths started to curse or shout something.
But before their rifles could swing up, Bolan knelt in a two-handed shooting crouch and the Beretta quietly sneezed its 9mm death buzzers.
The 3-round death burst sent the trio tumbling off their feet, piling lifelessly into one another.
Bolan continued past without slowing, gaining the door the three men had just stepped from. As he opened the door he realized he could save the play if he moved fast enough.
He found himself in a hallway leading to the front foyer of what appeared to have been a private home before the cannibals moved in and commandeered the building from its owners.
An IRG member stepped into the hallway inquiringly, drawn by the sounds of the commotion outside in the early-morning silence.
The soldier met Bolan eye to eye.
Bolan didn't stop for this one, either. His left hand grabbed the guy's throat, and he rammed the man's head backward against the doorframe hard enough to kill him.
The soldier collapsed, blood trickling from his ears and matted hair to the wood behind him.
Bolan extended his right arm through the doorway of the Orderly Room. As he sailed past he drilled two sleepy-eyed soldiers who started to get up but plopped right back down with tunnels cored through their heads.
The Executioner kept moving.
He reached the foyer and started up some stairs he found there.
The lights he'd seen from this house had come from both levels.
He fed a fresh clip into the Beretta, taking the treaders three at a time.
Survival depended solely on how fast he moved. His presence had only been detected by those he killed. But those bodies could be discovered anytime. And the patrolling sentries would soon begin to worry about their reliefs' delay.
The hallway on the second level was lined with closed doors. Through an archway to Bolan's right dim light filtered into the corridor along with a male voice chanting something in Arabic.
Bolan approached the archway, pressing himself to the wall. No one showed his face as Bolan stealthily breached the distance, the Beretta still in his fist.
The men beyond that passageway must have felt secure with the guards outside and downstairs in the Orderly Room.
The only way this thing played to Bolan was that something important had to be going down for 3:30 A.m. activity.
He reached the archway and crouched well below eye level of anyone in the room around the entrance frame.
The voice in Arabic took on a cadence like a prayer.
Bolan stole a glance around the edge of the wall.
His trained eye sized it all up with one sweep.
Six men.
Ib Masudi.
The slight stature of the Iranian commander did nothing to lessen the cruelty that glittered from eyes like black marbles separated by a hook nose. The Shiite general was in full IRG uniform.
That made this an official briefing.
The four men across a table from General Masudi were in mufti but wore Disciples of Allah armbands. One of them was an older man with gray in his beard, most likely the Disciples' military liaison. The others were younger, with the wary body language of street fighters. The terrorists and the general all wore holstered pistols.
They had unrolled and were studying large pieces of paper on the low table.
Blueprints.
Bolan took in the
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