Small bits of ash rained down around them.
They ripped through the guardrail still moving fast and plowed into a field filled with snow.
Dix spun the wheel to the right and the tire crashed into their rear end, slammed them forward, then sharply to the left. A flaming tire was rolling toward them at a manic speed. Dix prayed as he lifted his foot off the brake and steered into the skid, and slowly, finally, straightened the cruiser again.ĭix thought his heart would stop. A foot lower and it could have killed all of them.ĭix kept pressing the brake, trying to hold it steady until the cruiser slid into a slow skid. A slice of black metal scraped along the top of the cruiser, without breaking through the roof. They drove right through the fireball with debris flying at them. The world froze, shrank to a pinpoint in the next second as he watched flames whip up through the thick swirling snow, orange as the prisoner overalls in the Loudoun County lockup, rip twenty, thirty feet into the sky, red and orange, thick black plumes of smoke rising all around them.ĭix was already pressing on the brake when the truck exploded in a deafening roar that sounded like the thunder of drums. A bullet had hit her just as the truck blew. Dix heard Penny cry out, saw Emory jerk her back in. The flash he’d seen earlier flared up like a night beacon, a huge circle of blinding white reflected blue in the thick, spearing snow.
Penny fired again after Emory fed her more rounds, slowly this time so she wouldn’t drop them with her cold hands. He heard Claus shouting to Penny and firing his Glock out the driver’s-side rear window to give her cover or at least to distract the guys in the truck. He was doing eighty in a near blizzard, and pressed the accelerator to ninety. Penny hung herself out the window again, fired another five rounds quickly. They heard six rapid rounds, and the sound of two bullets pinging against their right fender and the front grill. Watch out, Penny!” Penny had already pulled back in. Claus yelled, “There’s a guy leaning out the passenger window.
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