American Insurgent by Phil Rabalais

Author:Phil Rabalais [Rabalais, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-11T07:00:00+00:00

Healing Wounds

The next several days saw a flurry of activity from all parties involved. The reaction at the detention camp bordered on panic. A late night patrol had discovered the body of Agent Johns, shot multiple times in the chest and face, apparently dragged behind a vehicle, and propped up against the front gate with a note on his chest proclaiming:

“Release your prisoners and walk away, or you all die. No quarter shall be given.”

Shorts tried mightily to suppress the information, but it rocketed throughout the camp. Several agents resigned on the spot and walked out the front door. Reprisals and threats of jail time had no effect. Some even refused to surrender their government-issued firearms, demanding they needed to protect themselves and insisting the agency could not protect them whether they stayed or left. The agency assets in the New Orleans area were on the verge of complete mutiny. None of this information escaped Mark and Kevin’s information-gathering apparatus.

“I can’t believe this, Mark, over two dozen agents apparently turned in their immediate resignation and walked out the door. All because of the ‘message’ John and Andy sent. It may have been heavy-handed, but it’s working,” Kevin gushed.

Mark nodded his head somberly, recalling the conversations of the previous evening and that morning. He and John had come amazingly close to blows, all because he had been unable to see the logic in what John did. John saw the goal, and in his mind the end always justified the means. To desecrate a body and leave it for all the world to see was barbaric, an act no less deserving of the label “terrorism” than anything John had seen in the Middle East. But Mark was forced to admit that in the dangerous game they played, you didn’t gain ground by playing by the rules. Sometimes, it paid off to be the villain, and the agents in the detention camp were justifiably terrified of John and Andy in a way they had not felt since they feared monsters under their beds as children. Those two men had become the face that waited for them in the dark of their nightmares, and the effect it was having on their will to fight was immediate and pronounced.

“So the time is nearing to end this.” Mark sighed, feeling relief. He longed to answer the question of whether or not his sister, Julie, was safe or even alive. He longed for some peace, even a temporary one, to return to his home. He did not delude himself that the war was over, but hoped that at least this victory would win the battle. But there was much work to do, and he had so little precious energy left. “We need to start putting together supplies and people, get a tactical plan together. John wants to hit the detention camp directly, and the time has to be drawing near.”

“What does he have in mind?” Kevin asked wearily. He had learned over the past month of his life that where John was concerned, he should expect a fine mixture of ingenuity and brutality.

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