Carlie Simmons (Book 4): The Gathering Darkness by Sawyer JT

Author:Sawyer, JT [Sawyer, JT]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2015-09-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The helicopter with Shane’s team glided in just over the treeline, flying map-of-earth until they set down in a tiny valley eight miles out from the prison in Walla Walla.

This would provide them with enough distance to not draw attention to their arrival but just close enough where they wouldn’t have a major mountaineering trek to make. Under previous wartime conditions, Shane would have preferred a HALO jump instead which would have put them much closer. However only a handful of guys on his team were so qualified and they didn’t have all the hardware they needed for such an operation. They were back to using footpower as so many campaigns throughout history had been waged.

As the helo set down, Shane jumped out of the side door, his camo-white jacket fluttering under the rotor wash. He headed to a small cluster of spruce trees a hundred yards away, followed by the five other operators. It had been a long time since he had done a mission without Matias by his side and he already felt his friend’s absence. The rest of his team had proven themselves on countless missions during the past months and he knew each one was solid in their technical abilities, physical prowess, and specific expertise. Shane had gone back to the groundwork he learned in the SEALs by having each person on his team cross-trained in a wide set of medical and fighting skills along with comms, urban warfare methods, and survival techniques. With Jared’s help he had also added in a component of lockpicking, vehicle acquisition skills, and electronic security hacking. In the past two months they had all trained hard at Fort Lewis and sweated profusely on missions, gelling into what felt like, at times, a single-celled organism and forming an example for other teams of how to structure their own internal training.

With all of them huddled around him under the snow-laden branches, Shane pulled out his topographic map and coupled it with the SAT image Duncan provided. “We’ve got an eight-mile hump to the promised land so that should put us there in the late afternoon, given the mountainous terrain and all this fucking cold-weather gear we’re carrying.” He pulled out his compass and laid it out on the map to configure the bearings to their location, after which he adjusted for magnetic declination. The rest of his team did the same and then studied the contour lines on the map.

“Looks like a good aerobic workout with the elevation gains here, at least until we hit the town of Walla Walla,” said Langdon, a younger man with a paintbrush-like bundle of whiskers under his lower lip.

“Yeah, you won’t have to do your evening Pilates session tonight,” snipped Jared.

“Nah, he seems more like a yoga kinda guy to me,” said Kress, a blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow with a thick frame.

“Fuck you, pretzel boy. Look at those scrawny bean-pole legs; you’d be the one to do yoga.” Langdon puffed out his chest.

Shane raised his eyes up and sneered.

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