Domination Bid by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2014-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Rural Virginia

The panel truck came to a screeching halt and immediately the Able Team trio aligned the sights of their weapons on the grille between the headlights.

At a signal from Lyons, all three opened up simultaneously and splattered the front of the truck with a hail of destructive hot lead. There was no way they planned to let the enemy escape, especially not one that had bothered to go to such lengths to destroy them. If nothing else, they could gain information and maybe such intelligence would help them peg down exactly who they were up against and why they were having such a hard time keeping this mission out of the public eye.

The sparks, telltale signs of the effective firestorm, were much more evident once the lights of the panel truck succumbed to the metal-smashing effects of 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm fire from the automatic rifles wielded by Able Team.

It seemed to do nothing, however, to deter the seemingly endless parade of armed combatants that disgorged from the back of the panel truck and immediately fanned into formation. These were professionals, sure, that much made obvious by their practiced movements. But being soldiers, whose side were they really on? Were these more of Cyrus’s mercenaries or additional numbers of hired guns under the employ of Ishaq Madari? Or were they maybe a personal force in the employ of David Steinham? It would be hard to find out if Able Team couldn’t survive the encounter.

Rounds bounced and sparked off the pavement or Black Betty’s armored body, which were troublesome to be sure—not nearly as troublesome, however, as the unmistakable shapes of the weapons being set up by two separate fire teams. Those were rocket launchers and they definitely put the odds in favor of the enemy.

“Are those—?” Blancanales began.

“Yeah!” Lyons confirmed.

“Ironman,” Schwarz said during a lull in the firing while he slapped home a fresh magazine. “Betty’s homogenous armor can withstand intense heat and just about every small arm round. But it’s no match for rocket-propelled grenades. We need to think about a retreat action.”

As a fresh hail of gunfire burned the air over his head, causing Lyons to duck, he replied, “I know, I know! But they have apparently some very different ideas. I don’t think we can get out of here before they’re set up. We need to try to neutralize them.”

“Wilco!” Schwarz reached into the van and came away with a stand-alone grenade launcher, a variant of the M-203 that fired 40 mm HE shells. He verified the weapon was already primed with a shell and then sighted on the nearest party and triggered a blast. The grenade fell a bit short of the enemy group, but the resultant explosion seemed enough to divert them from a more prolific course toward ensuring Able Team’s destruction.

The second group had managed to gain enough ground they were now in a position to hit Black Betty head-on, and there was wasn’t much the Stony Man warriors could do about it.

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