Today’s
excerpt is from Billy’s Rescue, Book #7 of the nine-book Asps Series. After Billy makes good his escape, he takes
out the terrorist camp. Enjoy and have a
great day.
m.j.
While those
three hurried to catch up, and the rest of the team moved forward, Billy found
what he was looking for. In addition to
a clear shot at one of his pin-less hand grenades, he had also been looking for
a convenient place to duck down. The
spot he found had a mini-outcropping, above the one he was on. He settled in, took careful aim, then
squeezed off his shot. As soon as the
gun fired, Billy rolled down to the smaller outcropping. Even as he went, the shot had hit just above
the grenade, but caused it to move enough for the lever to spring free. When the grenade went off, it set off a chain
reaction of explosives in the cave—including the other grenades—to cause a
horrendous explosion within seconds of Billy’s shot. All the terrorists Billy had seen died
instantly. The cave curved around in the
general direction Billy had gone. Around
the first bend of the curve were nearly eighty more terrorists Billy hadn’t
seen. They too died almost
instantly. The cave and tunnel leading
from it went for a few miles. For nearly
a mile of the distance, the tunnel was blackened, with the sound of the
explosion traveling on down the tunnel for miles.
·
When Billy
squeezed off his shot, the rest of the Asps were moving forward. The explosion had such force that—even though
they were over four miles away, they at first thought they were under
attack. Even at their distance from the
camp—they could see the fireball, as it went up into the air in the pre-dawn. Bruce muttered, “What in the hell? I sure hope this means Billy is fighting back
somehow…I also hope he’s not around too close.”
“Amen,” Dusty
muttered.
·
Wendy had just
flown over the terrorists behind the Asps, so was approaching the camp when the
explosion and fireball lit up the sky.
She shook her head. “Mother of
God. What in the world was that? Phil, did it fry our infrared?”
Phil laughed
before he answered, “Naw. But it sure
did mess with some of my other instruments—no damage, I hope.”
Wendy joked,
“You were on a roll until the ‘I hope.’
That I didn’t need.”
·
Billy waited a
few minutes, then went back to the spot he had fired from as he looked around
the camp compound. It was deathly
still. Satisfied, he hurried in the
direction of the Asps, but—obviously unknown to him—well east of their position.
·
Well behind the
Asps, the group of terrorists reduced in size by Phil also saw the fireball and
heard the explosion. They were far
enough away, however, they had no idea just what had caused it, or where it
came from. One of the men told those
around him it was probably some type of bombing raid by the Americans. The entire group picked up their pace for no
reason any of them could put into words.
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