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 Judgement Night: Bureau 13 Book 1
by Nick Pollotta


As the thing clawed blindly at its skull, Richard hit the
skeleton with an arrow from his ring. No effect. I decided to
play hardball.
тАЬTimex!тАЭ I commanded, undoing the strap of my
wristwatch.
Tearing off their timepieces, everybody twisted the dials
and tossed the devices towards the shambling mockery. It
walked right over them and the resulting explosion of the
self-destruct mechanisms rocked the garage, setting off a
hundred goddamn car alarms. We waited, and when the
smoke cleared away there was nothing remaining but a
charred patch on the cracked concrete.
Mindy tried to speak, but the alarms drowned her out.
Jessica nudged Raul, he gestured and silence returned.
тАЬNever seen the species before,тАЭ Richard commented,
mopping some blue moisture off his T-shirt with a
handkerchief. тАЬAnybody snatch a picture?тАЭ
Jessica silently displayed her pocket camera for an answer.
тАЬAtta, girl!тАЭ
You're welcome, Edwardo, dear.
тАЬCome on,тАЭ Father Donaher snorted, impatiently. тАЬLet's get
to the van.тАЭ
The rest of us agreed wholeheartedly and we raced across
the parking level in double-time. Nestled between a RV and a
delivery truck, we found our vehicle safe and unharmed.
Twenty-two feet long and eight feet high, the van was more a
mobile home than anything else. Or rather, mobile fort. The
windows were inch-thick Armorlite plastic, the hull armored to
withstand .50 rounds. All ten of the tires were military-grade
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self-repairing radials. The RV was airtight, with a twelve hour
supply of oxygen, carried more electrical surveillance
equipment than Air Force One and had a missile pod
disguised as an air-conditioner unit on the roof. We stole that
idea from a Mack Bolan novel. At the present, we lacked
missiles. Those weren't normally considered standard supplies
for a vacation. Although they would be from now on.
Reaching the van, we carefully turned off the antipersonnel
devices, canceled the magical barrier and unlocked the doors.