“Zero.”
“Bullshit. We tore that place apart. You said they were loading up one of the Matvees?”
“Two men and a woman were evacuated. I recognized two of them from the windows above the garage. I hit them hard with my .308 at one point.”
“We need more .308s in our arsenal. That goes on the list. You sure we didn’t kill any of them?”
“Unless they buried some folks on the other side of the house, where I couldn’t see. I watched them drag our KIAs into the woods through my scope. All MultiCam uniforms. Nothing else. It took them over an hour.”
Eli’s eye twitched. Twenty-nine killed for three wounded? He couldn’t accept that. A dangerous thought flashed across his synapses and hid in the dark recesses of his mind, waiting to be retrieved. He knew he should turn away from it. Nothing good could come from dragging it into light.
Twenty-nine dead in Limerick, twenty-five dead in Milton Mills. Jimmy. Nathan. These assholes had to pay.
“How many do you think are in the house? How many marines?”
“I counted five different civilians and three marines. One tactical vehicle stationed in the backyard. The other vehicle hadn’t returned by the time I left. Probably stayed with the wounded.”
“How did the marines get past the gates?”
“Busted right through. Those things are built like tanks,” said Brown.
“Tell me about it,” said McCulver, facing the crates in the truck. “We’ll have to build shaped charges to do any damage.”
“So the gates are broken?” said Eli.
Brown nodded, and McCulver turned around with a wary look.
“Eight total?”
“There could have been a few more in the house,” added Brown.
“How are the marines set up?”
“One guy on the 240. The other two helping out around the house.”
“Only one marine in the vehicle?”
“That’s what I saw when I left.”
Eli ran the scenario in his head and started to tremble. He might not have to wait as long as he thought to get his revenge.
THE END…To be continued in the early summer of 2014.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About The Perseid Collapse Series and Event Horizon
Prologue
PART I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
PART II
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
PART III
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
PART IV
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
PART V
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About The Perseid Collapse Series and Event Horizon
Prologue
PART I
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
PART II
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
PART III
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
PART IV
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
PART V
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
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