Billy's Rescue, Book #7 of the Asps Series - Asps find camp where Billy was held captive, but he isn't there.

Today’s excerpt is from Billy’s Rescue, Book #7 of the nine-book Asps Series.  Asps find camp where Billy had been held, but discover everyone there is dead.  They assume (correctly) that Billy somehow managed to escape and had a hand in blowing up the camp.  Enjoy and have a wonderful day. 

m.j.

 

Now absolutely certain just where the camp was, Dusty led the team toward it, but circled around to the left just a bit.  His reasoning was if any sizable number of terrorists survived the blast, they would come running down from the camp, straight to where the team had been.  He reasoned it was better to engage them from the side instead of head on, thus being able to eliminate several before they realized where the trouble had come from.  While it was well-reasoned out, it also took the team further away from Billy.

The team also picked up their pace considerably, but did so with assurance from Wendy there were no infrared signatures emanating from the camp.  While they weren’t quite running, they were close to it.  They covered the distance to the camp in well under an hour.  When they got to there, one look told them they would find no one alive.  They hurried on in to look over the scene. 

While the rest of the team looked things over, Bruce made the call he had waited on making until he knew more.  He called Glenn Burgess, who was an Assistant Director of The National Clandestine Service at the CIA.  Glenn was Bruce’s immediate supervisor.  “Well, boss man, we’ve got a mess here.  First off, Billy was captured—we’re pretty sure he got away clean.  We’re in the camp, but it isn’t where we were told it would be—it sure as hell isn’t anything like what we were led to believe we’d find.  Furthermore, they were waiting for us.  I want the name of the jackass who ran us into this jackpot…then I’m gonna ring his damn neck.”

“Whoa, whoa—back up a bit.  How was Billy captured?  How do you think he got away?”

“He walked right into an ambush.  Dusty was nearest him.  He, Dusty, managed to pop four of the bad guys, but they got away with Billy.  As we approached the camp we captured…for a very short period of time…three guys who were coming from the camp.  They verified Billy indeed had been taken here to the camp.  As the rest of us neared the camp, it went up in a ball of fire, due to a terrific explosion.  My guess is Billy somehow managed to escape, and left one of his calling cards.”

“Well, where the hell is he?”

“Damned if I know.  If it was me, I’d split the scene after I blew the place.  Now, back to who set us up.”

“I’ll take care of that.  You find Billy.”

“Yeah, okay.  But I’m pissed.”

 

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