47 Echo by Shawn Kupfer

Author:Shawn Kupfer [Kupfer, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781426891106
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-14T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Walk Among Us

There were a lot of them, but Nick didn’t have much trouble sneaking past the Chinese foot patrols outside K-13R’s gate. He sat with Gabriel and Michael at the quarter-mile mark for a few minutes, watching the patrols make their rounds through the scope on his stolen Chinese assault rifle. There was a method to their patrols—Nick realized that if he got close enough, he’d have just over thirty seconds to scale the gate without being seen.

As soon as he made it over the fence and dropped to the other side, Nick crouched behind a wooden storage crate and looked back out toward the Razor. He couldn’t see the vehicle, nor could he see Michael and Gabriel. The two men, like Nick, were dressed in black, unmarked fatigues. Nick had left his jacket in the Razor, so he was simply dressed in black BDU pants, a black T-shirt and combat boots. He had his Chinese assault rifle and the M4 Wes had handed him slung crisscrossed over his back, and had strapped a Glock 50 to each hip. As he stood from behind the crate, he winched the straps on all of his weapons as tight as he could to keep them from rattling as he walked—no point in making any more noise than he had to.

He’d memorized the map of K-13R in the Razor, as well as the last known position of Petkov’s cell phone—the GPS on the phone was only accurate to within fifty feet. It didn’t sound like a lot of ground, but Nick knew the Russian tank commander could be in any of six different buildings, on any level. His best bet was to make it to the area as quickly as possible and take his best guess. Fortunately, there weren’t many people roaming around the camp this late at night, so Nick kept to the shadows and easily avoided detection as he crept the two kilometers into the camp, heading for the glowing red dot on the map he’d memorized.

As Nick got closer to his target area, he noticed a lot of electric lights. The closer he got, the more he could hear loud, shouting voices in Chinese and, he assumed, Korean. Nick slowed as the lights got brighter and the alley he was in emptied out into a main courtyard. He hung in the shadows at the mouth of the alley and saw what was causing all the commotion in the courtyard ahead of him.

In the town’s main square, an improvised fighting ring had been set up. On one side of the ring, a young woman in a Chinese Army tank top was standing, her hands and feet wrapped in boxing tape. On the other side, a much larger man in a North Korean Army T-shirt stood wearing similar fighting gear. Crowds of uniformed Chinese and North Korean soldiers surrounded the ring, talking loudly and drinking heavily. An older man in Chinese Army fatigues stepped into the center of the ring and raised both hands.

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