Today’s excerpt is from Back
To Iraq, Book #2 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Jessica earns her place on team with defeat
of raid on the Joint. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
Flustered,
Hans turned toward the truck. “We’ll
have to force our way in—hurry up, everyone.”
Instantly
the six men in the rear of the truck piled out, as did the other German in the
front of the truck. They brought
pre-rigged wads of C-4 explosive with them.
Quickly one of the charges was placed on the locking mechanism on the
outer gate. They stood back as it
exploded. Through that gate, they did
the same thing at the other one.
Jessica
watched dumbfounded. But when the men
poured in through the second gate, she tried to remain calm and follow the
instructions Jim had given her earlier.
When all eight men had passed through the gate, she raised a red cover
on the console and pressed the button.
That button was connected to six claymore mines. They exploded with a horrific explosion and
literally tore six men to shreds. The
other two men, the Germans who had rushed in first, had made it to the deeply
recessed entrance foyer and, though hit, they were still upright and able to
carry on. Had they stopped to think,
they could have possibly made good an escape.
Days before, they had placed explosives on the perimeter fence of the
base, which could be detonated by a remote control, located in the truck. That had been their planned escape
route.
However,
adrenalin took over and they put another charge on the door. Meanwhile, Jessica had picked up a phone and
placed a call to Ted Kuntz. She called
him because it was a number she had for some reason remembered, while
forgetting Jim’s cell phone number and the base security office number. She was in luck. Ted answered on the first ring, and Jessica,
a surprisingly small amount of stress in her voice, said, “This is Jessica
Wilson calling from the Joint. I’m under
attack by men dressed as Marines. Please
help.”
Before
Ted could reply, there was another loud explosion. On the monitor covering the front entrance,
Jessica could see the two men rush in.
She dropped the phone and ran to her computer, where she had left her
gun. As the two men came in through the
foyer, Jessica raised the gun and fired twice.
Both Germans fell to the floor with nice neat holes right between their
eyes.
Ted
acted quickly. He called base
security—where they had heard all of the explosions and already had men on the
way—and told them that men dressed as Marines were attacking the Scott Facility. Then he called Jim on his cell phone, and
when Jim answered, he alerted him to the problem. “Jim, Jessica Wilson is under attack at the
Joint.”
Not
taking time to answer Ted, Jim told the driver to return to the base at once.
General
Bradley walked into Ted’s office as Ted was picking up the phone connected to
Jessica and heard only eerie quiet. He
asked, “Jessica, are you there?”
When
he received no answer, he said to his secretary, “Arrange a police escort with
lights flashing. I’m going to Andrews…emergency!”
General
Bradley asked, “What’s up?”
Ted
raced out of his office and said on his way past the General, “Attack on the
Joint.”
General
Bradley followed Ted without comment and they were soon speeding toward the Air
Force base.
At the
base, the Air Force security team arrived first. They piled out of their vehicles and the
captain in charge took one look at the carnage on the Joint grounds and raced
to and through the open front door of the building. As he rounded the corner, he stopped dead in
his tracks. Jessica was pointing a gun
at him. “I think you’re supposed to wait
outside until someone arrives who belongs here.”
He
replied, “Yes, ma’am,” as he glanced down at the two dead men at his feet,
before backing out of the building.
Once outside,
he again looked at the blown apart bodies.
The effect of six claymore mines at point-blank range was more than just
devastating. The captain could hardly
stand to look at the mess of what had once been six men.
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