JonDLundyn Parker 11
December 11th 2006 18:53
deadly weapon
A swim.
The Seawind came to rest about 200 metres from the freighter. There were some crew lazing around on the deck watching them. Lundyn opened the aircraft’s hatch and made out as if he was doing some repair work. Karen and Roscoe waved in a friendly manner to the watching crew who simply spat over the side and flicked cigarette ash. Lundyn had a plan to delay the vanishing Ho Sin lee so that the proper authorities could get hold of him now. The freighter was marked now as a possible drug boat and would be very thoroughly searched at its next port of call. The friends of the General were arranging to detain Ho wherever he was picked up. They had made enough fuss to have him made an undesirable person and the Thai authorities were very interested in him for drugs, a multiple murder at his home and leaving the country under a false passport. Lundyn was going to make sure it was soon and he would be able to zero in the authorities.
By the time the crew grew too restless to watch their seaplane any more Lundyn had donned his dive gear and was over the side. He was carrying a coil of 400-millimetre thick rope. He finned powerfully under the freighter until he was under the pilot ladder. There he waited gazing up at the bottom of the tanker. It was, he noted, quite clean and free of growth. It would be able to travel quite fast he mused. Within minutes he heard what he was waiting for, the sound of the powerful engines of the fifty footer coming to make the transfer of Ho Sin Lee. As it pulled up under the pilot ladder Lundyn could make out a figure coming down the ladder. It was certainly his enemy. From under the water Lundyn could make out his features. Lundyn was keeping in the shadow of the two vessels so that he would not be easily noticed but the sunlight lit the face he was now familiar with. As Ho was about to step on board the cruiser Lundyn moved under the boat and attached either end of the coiled rope around the propeller shafts of the big cruiser. Not too tight, he needed the cruiser to get far enough away from the freighter to avoid it coming to immediate assistance. Lundyn judged that at their speed of 25 knots they would be about an hour from the freighter moving in the opposite direction at 18 knots. They would be over 40 sea miles apart and it would take it nearly three hours to come to assistance. He would be setting up at least a four-hour period for the authorities to come and make the arrest.
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