Authors: Roland Smith
Shatterproof
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Contents
On a bus to Berlin, Germany
“Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky,” Dan Cahill said.
“But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry,” Atticus said, taking a huge bite out of an apple strudel.
“And picking your nose,” Dan added, which caused Atticus to blow a mouthful of strudel all over the seat in front of them occupied by Dan’s sister, Amy, who was trying to sleep.
Amy had heard the entire lame exchange — and felt the half-chewed pastry chunks splatter the back of her head — but she resisted the strong urge to turn around and tell the boys to shut up. She was happy that the old, goofy Dan was back, acting like a complete idiot. He had grown up way too much in the past few weeks, and she hadn’t liked what he was turning into. Dan had seen too much, too fast, and lately she’d caught glimpses of something dark inside him.
And the pressure on the two of them was growing. Vesper One was not just a step ahead, he was miles ahead of them. He not only knew what they were going to do before they did it, he even seemed to know what they were thinking.
But so far, no hostages have died
, she reminded herself.
We have handled every ridiculous and dangerous task Vesper One has thrown at us. Our friends are still alive.
She wondered how much longer it could last.
Seven members of the Cahill family had been kidnapped and a man known only as Vesper One was threatening to kill them one at a time unless Amy and Dan delivered a series of bizarre ransoms. He was pulling their strings like a puppet master, teasing them, commanding them, and they had no choice but to obey. Which is why Amy found herself on a bus, in a snowstorm, moving doggedly toward their next target even though their flight had been canceled.
“I’ve discovered that Berlin is not the only place having weird weather,” Atticus said to Dan.
Their long flight from Samarkand had barely landed in Heidelberg when the airport was closed due to the earliest snowfall in Germany’s history. The airline company put the grumbling passengers on buses for a slushy six-hour drive to Berlin.
“There’s a heat wave in Attleboro — upper nineties. In the Pacific Northwest, where some places get one hundred twenty–plus inches of rain, they’re having a drought. Climatologists are scrambling to figure out the strange weather shift.”
Dan wasn’t paying attention. “You strudel-chunked your laptop!” he said.
This started another round of hysterical giggling, causing several other passengers to curse in German and “Shh!” them, which the boys completely ignored.
Amy shook her head in wonder. Listening to the two boys, you wouldn’t know that a couple days earlier, Atticus had almost been murdered. She pulled a strudel chunk out of her hair.
It’s as if none of it ever happened. But it did happen
.
Worse things have happened. . . .