Backlash by Traci Hunter Abramson

Author:Traci Hunter Abramson [Abramson, Traci Hunter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Abramson, LDS, military, Action
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2013-07-28T22:00:00+00:00

21

The truck lurched to a stop, and Seth opened the door to let Tristan and Brent out. They were half a mile from Ramir’s compound, but Tristan and Brent would go the rest of the way on foot so they could cover them from the brush. Up front, Quinn kept the truck idling as he waited for Brent to give him the signal that they were ready.

Seth wished they would have had more time to analyze Ramir’s defenses, but he agreed with Brent that they needed to strike while Akil Ramir was in Aruba. None of them wanted to go back into his home base in Nicaragua again.

With Vanessa’s firsthand knowledge of Ramir’s house in Aruba, he was a lot more confident that they could succeed. She had lived here for more than a year when she was first undercover in Ramir’s organization. As a result, she had given them a lot of insight they would never have discovered for themselves, even if they had had the time to do adequate surveillance. Vanessa had helped the Saint Squad develop the mission plan and had even been relatively certain about how many people they could expect to encounter once they penetrated the main residence.

Sure enough, the surveillance Quinn and Tristan had conducted earlier that day suggested that there were approximately twenty people inside. They also confirmed that two sentries were posted on top of the roof. They all hoped to remain invisible until long after those guards realized anything was wrong.

A ten-foot-high wall ran the full length of the property except for the area that opened up to the beach. Logically, inserting from the water made the most sense, but their information suggested that Ramir was actually the strongest there. Using infrared imaging, Quinn had identified approximately fifty people inside the two guardhouses situated opposite each other near the edge of the beach.

Realizing that Ramir was prepared for intruders arriving by water, they had chosen to take a more direct and difficult route—right through the front door. Or close to it, anyway.

Seth took a steadying breath when he felt the truck slow to a stop. They were there. Any second the back was going to open up. He just didn’t know who was going to be standing on the other side when it did.

Seth shifted forward, an unusual sense of anxiety coursing through him, one he hadn’t experienced in years. The rush of adrenaline he always felt during a mission was there, but so was a new sense of uneasiness. The lack of Kel’s presence was an oddity in itself, and Seth struggled to push aside the guilt that his former commander’s injury had resulted when the squad had helped bring him home.

Brent’s leadership style wasn’t much different from Kel’s. The inherent trust was there, an understanding that he knew everyone would do their job and that success would be the final outcome.

Despite Brent’s unspoken confidence, they all knew there was an untested factor that could endanger all of them. So

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