A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller

Author:John Jackson Miller [Miller, John Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-553-39287-6
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

From behind the chunk of shuttle wing she’d been using for cover, Sloane watched in stupefaction as the lumbering metal machine improbably crested the permacrete barrier. Her comlink was already in her hand. “Everyone after that thing, now!”

Climbing out from behind the twisted wedge of metal, she dashed toward her charge. “Count Vidian! Count Vidian!”

“Yelling is unnecessary.” His voice filled her with relief, for a change. But just for a moment. Vidian rose from the corpse of the Besalisk, his regal outfit bloodied and torn. “I live, no thanks to your forces. Another bomb—and now these attackers. You call this security?”

Sloane fought the impulse to argue. It was the Imperial Army garrison’s responsibility to secure the landing area, not hers—but now wasn’t the time to quibble. The chase was on. Squat gray Imperial troop transports loaded with stormtroopers were already heading out the west gate, and she had more than that in mind.

“Order the local authorities to put up roadblocks at every intersection—keep them penned into Highground!” she called on the comlink. “Contact ground and satellite surveillance—make sure we know where the vehicle is at all times!”

And across the tarmac, far from the blast site, she saw something she did have direct control over: two TIE fighters, parked and waiting. “Get those in the sky,” she called out to the spaceport chief.

“Right away, Captain!”

“There were others with the saboteur,” Vidian said, looking back at officers heading for the TIEs. “That makes this a conspiracy. I want Skelly shot on sight, but bring the others to me!”

Sloane hadn’t gotten a good look at the two who’d been facing the hoverbus, and she doubted anyone else had. One of the traitors had shot out the one surveillance cam covering the area; that someone had known what he or she was doing. But Skelly should stand out—and they wouldn’t get far in that monstrosity they were driving.

“I want those renegades,” she called out to the troopers. “Now!”

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