Deliver Us from Evil by David Baldacci EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: David Baldacci
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Action Thriller & Suspense Fiction, Suspense
- Publish Date: 2 July 2010
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
THE NINETY-SIX-YEAR-OLD MAN sat in his comfy armchair enjoying a
book on Joseph Stalin. No mainstream publisher would touch the delusion filled manuscript since the author had been unfailingly complimentary about
the sadistic Soviet leader. Yet the self-published book’s positive opinion of
Stalin appealed greatly to the old man. He’d purchased it directly from the
writer not long before the latter was committed to a mental institution.
No stars could be seen hovering over the elderly man’s large estate because
of a storm moving inland from the nearby ocean. Though he was wealthy and
living in great luxury, his personal needs were relatively simple.
He wore a
decades-old faded sweater, his shirt collar secured all the way to his fleshy
neck, which was thick with wattles. His cheap pants lay loose over his
skeletal and useless legs. The hypnotic drum of rain on the roof had begun
and he settled farther back in his chair, content to delve into the mind and
career of a madman who had killed tens of millions of people unlucky enough
to live under his cruel fist.
The old man occasionally laughed at something he read, at least the
particularly gruesome parts, and nodded his head in agreement over passages
where disciples of Stalin explained his graphic methods for the destruction of
all civil liberties. In the Soviet dictator he clearly saw the leadership qualities
necessary to drive a country to greatness while also causing the world to
shake with terror. He tilted down his thick spectacles and glanced at his
watch. Nearly eleven o’clock. The security system went on promptly at nine,
with every door and window professionally monitored. His fortress was
secure.
A crack of thunder seemed to cause the lights to flicker. They sputtered
twice more and fluttered out. In the lower-level electronics room the battery
backup in the security system had been removed, causing it to cease
functioning when the power supply was interrupted. Each door and window
was instantly disarmed. Ten seconds later the massive backup generators
kicked in and brought the electrical flow back to full power, returning the
security system to online status. However, within that ten-second span a
window had opened and a hand had darted out and caught the digital camera
that had been tossed from ground level. The window closed and was locked a
second before the system armed once more.
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