Expose to Danger

2016·0.39 MB·English

by  Philip Buckland

Expose to Danger

An Apollo Bureau Spy Adventure

by Philip Buckland
Also by Philip Buckland:

The Frank Hurley series

The Cranston Occurrence

The Hiders

Lois Latham

Invisible, We’re Here

The Live End

The Apollo Bureau spy series

A Scientist is Missing

The Rich Chandler series

Incommunicado

Copyright 2016 Philip Buckland

CHAPTER I

Space. A vast and dark and endless
vacuum of stars and sky.
A satellite appeared in space. It was
round and brass colored and circles covered
all of the satellite. Then another satellite
appeared in space. It was shaped like a
rocket and had jet-propelled fins, and in the
center of the nose cone of the rocket was a
large barrel. And surrounding the barrel, and
also inside the nose cone, were more barrels.
But these barrels were smaller than the
barrel in the center of the nose cone of the
rocket. Then, a ray appeared from one of the
smaller barrels inside the nose cone of the
rocket and shot over to the satellite (the
“brass colored ball”) and hit it. Then, the
rocket pulled the ball over to it by using the
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ray that had shot out of the barrel inside the
nose cone of the rocket. Then, the ray
disappeared. Now the rocket wasn't pulling
the ball over to it. Then, another ray
appeared from another one of the small
barrels inside the nose cone of the rocket.
Then, it hit the ball, and then the rocket
repelled the ball away from it by using the
ray that had been shot out of the barrel
inside the nose cone of the rocket. Then, the
ray disappeared. Now the rocket wasn't
repelling the ball away from it anymore.
Then another ray appeared from another
one of the small barrels inside the nose cone
of the rocket. Now it hit the ball, and then,
with that ray, the satellite pulled the ball
away with it. Then the ray disappeared. Now
the rocket wasn't pulling the ball away with
it by using the tractor ray that had come out
of the barrel inside the nose cone of the
rocket. Now another ray appeared from
another barrel in the nose cone of the rocket
and hit the ball and jammed the radio ball's
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frequencies with a gyroscopic beam. Then
the beam disappeared. Then another ray
appeared from the nose cone of the rocket
and hit the ball and exploded the ball. Now
the ball was completely destroyed. Then the
rocket turned around and went back to
where it had come from.

It was a nice day here in Washington,
D.C. The sun was bright, and the sky was
blue, although there were a few clouds in the
sky. But there was no temperature. It was
neither hot or cold nor warm nor cool here
in Washington.
I was here in downtown Washington and
sitting outside Wiseguy NY Pizza with this
beautiful blonde, and she and I were looking
at menus. We were making a big decision:
what to have put on our fourteen-inch pizza.
I wasn't working right now, so I had the time
to do whatever I wanted to do right now.
Today I was in the mood to go eat out to eat
out for lunch, and so I had come here to
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Wiseguy NY Pizza for lunch. I was in the
mood to have Italian food for lunch. And it
was here at Wiseguy NY Pizza that I had met
Julie--the beautiful blonde.
A waiter came and took our order, and
then he collected the menus and left, and
then Julie and I continued talking to each
other, getting to know each other better.
We also told each other what we did for
a living. Julie was an interior decorator, and I
was an insurance investigator. Julie found
my job fascinating. But what I didn't tell Julie
was that insurance investigator was really
my cover for what I was really was: a secret
agent. But if I told Julie I was a secret agent,
she'd be shocked or thrilled.
A few minutes later, the waiter came
back with our order, and then we dug right
into it: the fourteen inch pizza with
mozzarella cheese and mushrooms and
sausage on it, and we washed the pizza
down with red wine.
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