Kidnapped — Christopher Charles

Harriet’s detective agency sets off to rescue a young lady kidnaped in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. The rescue is successful, but Harriet is left stranded with no money, phone, or passport. She has a price on her head because she was responsible for the previous drug cartel demise. The police department is tainted, where can she go?Excerpt:She had 300 thousand in her briefcase, the compliments of Senor Gutierrez. He could be generous after completing a four million drug deal. She had a plane. She was flying home after she dropped him off at the Rafael Nung airport in Cartagena Columbia.She brought the plane to a stop five-hundred-feet from his black limousine. Senor Gutierrez stepped out of the plane, walked towards the limo, stopped, turned, tip his hat, when four men stepped out of the limousine with automatic weapons. He took ten bullets before he replaced his hat.Startled, Harriet could not move until they pointed their weapons towards her. Closing the door, she ran to the cockpit taking a bullet in the leg and arm as the windows shattered from the bullets. She pushed the left throttle turning the plane as one of the assassins ran towards the cockpit spraying it with bullets. She took one bullet across her forehead, rendering her slightly dizzy as the left propeller caught the assassin. She felt the thump as his body passed through the moving propeller leaving him scattered over the wing. Concentrating, blood flowing over her eye, she starts the remaining engine. The plane picks up speed towards the runway as the limousine continues to pepper the plane with bullets. The plane reaches the runway finally leaving the limousine behind.