The 8th episode of J.C. Hutchins 7th Son Novel dropped this morning and I listened to it this morning on the way to work.
The story focuses on the fate of Thomas and the delegates on the Evactus train. The group in the UN Assembly Hall start to think of a way to stop the train without using the brakes (as that is where the Nuke is wired to). Killroy 2.0 manages to persuade General Hill to give them his Code Phantom id and password so that they can access the Evactus schemas on the UN site.
Jack and John are discussing how to stop the train when John recalls his adventures in Alaska and the articulated truck and asks Vinnj if it is possible to decouple the train from the carriages. It seems that there is an emergency release switch in the train that will release the carriages and apply emergency brakes in the carriages leaving the bomb behind. The only problem is that whoever presses the release switch will have to jump back to the carriages whilst they are slowing and the engine is accelerating.
They pass the news onto Thomas and Thomas is the man for the job. He heads into the engine. As he gets into the engine he finds another murdered engineer and spies the Nuke. As he describes the bomb to the others General Hill informs everyone it is a Red Mercury bomb and not to be messed with. As Thomas braces himself for pressing the button and the leap back to the carriages Thomas is attacked by a Devlin that fell of the train in the fight and stabbed several times. Another fight occurs and a fatally wounded Thomas disables Devlin. Thomas releases the carriages and gives Devlin the last rites as the Red Mercury bomb detonates…
Another fantastic episode, I was just gripped from beginning to end. I did think that when a voice came over the intercom and Devlin attacked it was Alpha hacked into the comm link, but again I was wrong.
I won’t be doing an update next week as I am on Holiday, so I will have a fortnight to wait for the next step in the story.
Tags: 7th Son, JC Hutchins
