The 6 Sacred Stones
A Novel
First Ordeal
The Flight of the Firestone
Australia
December 1, 2007
9 Days Before the 1st Deadline
Zou chu lai dao jia ban shang! Wo yao kan de dao ni. Ba shou ju zhe gao gao de!"
Translation: "Hey! Come out onto the deck! Remain in plain sight! Hold your hands up high!"
Deleting a final image, Chow did as he was told, kicked back from his desk, and stepped out onto the open foredeck of his barge.
The lead gunboat towered above him. It was a modern one, fast, with camouflaged flanks and a huge forward gun.
Chinese soldiers with American-made Colt Commando assault rifles lined its deck, their short-barreled guns pointed at Chow.
That they held modern American weapons was a bad sign: it meant that these soldiers were elite troops, special forces. Ordinary Chinese infantrymen carried clunky old Type 56 assault rifles -- the Chinese rip-off of the AK-47.
These guys weren't ordinary.
Chow raised his hands -- a bare second before someone fired and the entire front hal ... read full excerpt from The 6 Sacred Stones ebook
