Today’s excerpt is from The
Zimo Hunt, Book #2 of the nine-book Asps Series. Three of the Asps stumble onto an al-Qaida
camp hidden in deep forest inside Pakistan.
One of the terrorists is very high-ranking. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
Dusty shook his
head. “We should try to take him
alive. Er…please don’t ask me just how
we go about that.”
They waited
quietly and thought things over for several minutes. While they all thought, the man in question
went to a far side of the camp, and relieved himself, then headed back for his
cave. The other men in the camp were
sitting around, doing not much of anything.
One group of four were at a small fire, and three others were sitting on
the ground talking. The others were
either alone or with one other man talking.
Only four of the twelve were on their feet. After a few more minutes, Bear sighed. “No way we can each take out four of them
before somebody notices bodies dropping.
Hell, we might even wind up with a fight on our hands. And we sure can’t go for help. They’ll miss their sentry—and probably the
five who were stalking us—long before we could get help.”
Kye joked,
“Thanks for stating the obvious, Bear.
Now, how about a solution.”
Dusty grumbled,
“There isn’t one. Bear, you take out the
guy standing furtherest to our right.
Kye, you take the next standing one over. I’ll start on the left, and take the last
standing one next. Bear, when you pop
yours, start on the group of four near the fire. Kye, you start on the group of three. I’ll start on the rest of ‘em. Let’s see how it goes. We’ll just have to play it by ear from
there.”
All three took a
deep breath, let it out, and started firing.
Six of the terrorists were killed before the others really had time to
comprehend what was happening, then they all sprang into action, reaching for
weapons and getting up. Their main
problem was they had no idea where the nearly silent shots were coming
from. Two more died before the others
started running for the cave. Only two
of the original twelve made it. Even
though those two were now in the dark of the cave, the night vision scopes on
the rifles clearly revealed them as they still tried to figure out where the
shots were coming from. Those two died
inside the cave before the al-Qaida leader and three others, who had been
inside the cave, started firing wildly into the surrounding brush and trees.
As the three
friends stopped firing, Bear asked, “Now what?”
Dusty
sighed and muttered, “Kill ‘em,” before he squeezed off a shot that killed one
of the four men. Kye and Bear started
shooting as well and, in a matter of seconds, the last three men fell in their
tracks, also. The three Asps started moving in the direction of the camp from
their hiding places. While Bear and Kye
checked the bodies outside the cave, Dusty went inside and checked the six
corpses there.
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