"Kenneth Robeson - Doc Savage 120 - Waves of Death" - читать интересную книгу автора (Robeson Kenneth)

тАЬWhy?тАЭ

тАЬWell, it's a strange field.тАЭ

тАЬIf it was a pasture I'd drag it,тАЭ Monk said. тАЬBut it's a waste of time. This is an airport.тАЭ

Johnny Littlejohn, using small words, said, тАЬBetter drag the field. This might not be a picnic.тАЭ

Monk eyed him strangely. тАЬYou got a hunch?тАЭ

тАЬMaybe. And maybe I've been around Doc enough to get his habit of never taking a chance.тАЭ

Monk nodded and brought the plane in low, leveled off, and instead of landing, flew across at an altitude
of a few feet, inspecting it. At the end of the drag, Johnny was a little pale.

тАЬPut a flare over,тАЭ he said.

Monk nodded again. He wasn't pale but his mouth was as tight as if he had tasted a lemon.
They dropped a flare and it shed white glare, struck the field and cast a spreading and dancing whiteness.

In this whiteness there were thin upright shadows and even thinner festooning ones.

тАЬWell,тАЭ Johnny said. тАЬWhat do you make of it?тАЭ

Ham said, тАЬSteel rods driven into the field and barbed wire tied between them, it looks like.тАЭ

Monk said, тАЬWe'll land on the bay. It's not far, and the water is smooth.тАЭ

They came down on the water, very carefully, and landed without incident, then taxied inshore.

They turned on the lights in the plane cabin and moved about ostentatiously. The cabin was
bullet-proofed, but nobody shot at them. They went ashore then, still being cautious. They walked to the
airport without incident, except that they were barked at furiously by someone's dog.

The steel rods were ordinary iron fence posts, and the wire was ordinary barbed wire, but if they had
landed in it the result would have been destruction of their plane certainly, and probably their death.

тАЬSomebody was anxious to welcome us,тАЭ Monk said dryly.



Chapter II. SMALL DARK MAN
THEY examined the fence posts.

тАЬNew,тАЭ Ham said.

тАЬWire is new, too,тАЭ Johnny pointed out.

тАЬLet's get some fence-post dealers out of bed,тАЭ Monk said.