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The Penthouse - Select Passages

(The Penthouse - a novel by I.Q. Cameron)

From Chapter 1

"I see the bus. My cameraman has it."
"Good girl," came the warm reply..."We'll talk again very soon, Suzie... You take care..."
She... was about to ask him to repeat what he had said, when the world at the end of the block erupted into a massive fireball.

From Chapter 2

She knew nothing of the explosion except for an awareness of percussion. She saw no shredded metal... and she saw and felt no flames. Her young face was torn completely off as the first shards tore through... dicing all those on board and tearing their bodies apart. The pulverized matter which made up their bodies... sprayed across the street... amid the debris... vomiting human matter across the passing movement of morning traffic.

From Chapter 7

As ??? turned to enter the small cubicle... Andrea Anger stepped silently up to her prey, bringing the tip of the silencer to the back of the guard's head until it mingled with her hair. A single popping sound emanated with the excited squeeze of a trigger-finger, and Andrea saw a bright red flower blossom instantly on the wall ahead of her victim.
???'s forehead exploded as the bullet exited then shattered a white tile on the wall at the center of the newly formed, bright red wallflower. The guard gave a small grunt of protest...

From Chapter 10

"Get going, and don't look back. Go!"
Still crying, the girl... turned to run... As the girl continued to trot, stumbling with terror... Andrea took aim and shot her just above the center of her back, and then in the back of the head... The girl fell and sprawled... Andrea held the tip of the silencer vertically before her mouth, then blew away a wisp of smoke.
"Just like the old west," she said aloud..."This is fun!"

From Chapter 11

The police car struck with devastating force, its driver and passenger already dead... The aimless, howling metal coffin plowed deep into its fellow cruiser, burying itself so far that the two became one. ??? was pulverized... killed in an instant.
And then the two cars exploded in a ball of fire and smoke...

From Chapter 13

... as the hulking cloud of debris rose into life, a huge, dull thumping percussion that seemed to last for over a second impacted... a shockwave that shook all those present. It also shook the entire nation.
The thick, dark and fiery monster lumbered... roaring... tossing copious clouds of shattered debris skyward, then raining it all back down upon the scene of utter destruction...

From Chapter 15

"I don't want to shoot her," Andrea explained, a wild, mischievous expression blossoming..."Teach me how to break her neck..."
"Please..." she begged, her weak hands barely able to rise to the battle. "I'm a human being... Please..."
Andrea leaned close..."No you're not. Not any more," she said cruelly. With that she gave a heavy, callous twist...

From Chapter 21

Without apparent hate, and yet with measured purpose, Miss White then pressed the tip of her silencer against the inner edge of the Mexican's sizable left breast...
She blew the smoke from her silencer and changed clips. "Come now, Sirhan," she grinned. "You now I just don't feel right for the rest of the day unless I've killed someone..."

??? was not sparing with his ammunition, happy in the knowledge that there was ample for all... He punched away at the defiant cop's chest, relishing the heavy recoil of the assault rifle as the cop's white blouse became dotted with red splotches.

From Chapter 23

To her continued amazement, her partner did not answer. ??? was still sharing her concentration between the road ahead and the surreal sight of the sinking bridge, when she realized that her partner had lost his zest for the chase. She suddenly looked...
It took another three full seconds before ??? realized that her partner had given up the race to catch the killers because most of his brain was now situated throughout the rear of the car.

From Chapter 27

As she groveled... Donna heard again the familiar bursts of Uzi gunfire and the occasional popping of automatic pistols. There came yet more grunts and cries of protest from those being killed, and then an eerie silence... She was alive, but she knew she was in terrible trouble...
She had little doubt that she was about to meet Mirage in person. And after that, God.

From Chapter 32

??? saw his eyes flick, clearly a signal... With speed and grace, Sylvia... spun ??? on the spot... as she did so, there came a small metallic clicking sound from the German's right hand. Before ??? could register what was happening, the blonde assassin slipped her muscular arm before her prey, then back, the stroke little more than a blur. ???'s throat was slit centrally and laterally, wide and so quickly that the girl didn't even know she had been murdered.

From Chapter 34

Blast-proof windows... doubtless saved many lives of those close to the point of impact, but they did little to deflect the ferocious blow itself... The... flew directly into the center of one wall... and tore its way through the enormous monolith, shredding both material and personnel as it went. In a blinding, searing explosion of consuming heat, the most fortunate of those to die were vaporized without ever being aware of the horrendous impact...

From Chapter 36

...he moved his right arm across in front of her chest, pulling it up tight as if he might choke her while his left hand went quickly to the side of her head. ??? gasped, shocked... and barely able to breathe... Then, with considerable strength, and deft, experienced hands, ??? simply snapped her neck. ??? gave a small grunt as the crisp sounds of breaking bones told of a cruel job expertly completed. She dropped her cellphone immediately, and sagged in the chair.

From Chapter 41

"Watch him," warned ???. "He has a knife thingy up his sleeve... killed the girl with it." ??? smiled when he thought of it. "Stuck it right in the back of her head. It was cool... real cool."
"The back of her head, you say?" asked ??? ...His brother nodded confirmation... He... stared down at the once-attractive, bloody form of ???, and a pillow of blood... beneath her head...
"Oh, that's just plain cold," he mocked. Then he laughed..."All our... friends are dead. That was a good plan..."

"And now they will pay!" he bellowed.
He felt his head swim, both from blood loss and from the dizzying heights of monumental success. "I hope you're ready for this, Agent Kelly... but I somehow think you won't be."
Then he pushed the button.

From Chapter 42

Broadcast live and later played back innumerable times, frame-by-frame for added effect, ...viewers were actually able to see the woman's face turn bright red as her blonde hair burned off in a moment, her death recorded forever by the miracle of technology. Red, then white, then so bright that it hurt the eyes... ???'s body... incinerated in a blinding flash that removed all trace of... existence.

 

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