Dreamland 03 - Razor's Edge by Dale Brown

Author:Dale Brown [Brown, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2010-12-19T21:20:49+00:00

RAZOR’S EDGE

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Something big’s kicking up some dirt up the road. Your pilot’s starting to get some twists in his underwear.”

Aboard Quicksilver, over Iraq 1655

ZEN PITCHED THE FLIGHTHAWK BACK SOUTH WHEN HE NOticed the three vehicles leaving the village on the dirt road. He was moving too fast to target them.

“Vehicles on the highway, coming out of the village,”

Zen told Breanna. “Alert the Osprey. I’m rolling on them.”

“You sure they’re not civilians?” asked Breanna.

“What do you want me to do, ask for license and registration?”

“I don’t want you to splash civilians,” said Breanna.

“Hawk leader,” he said.

Zen didn’t want to kill civilians either, but he wasn’t about to take any chances with his people on the ground.

The rules of engagement allowed him to attack anything that appeared to be a threat. He tucked Hawk One into a shallow dive, angling toward the lead truck. When it came up fat in the crosshairs, he fired.

One of the most difficult things to get used to about flying the robot plane in combat was the fact that the cannon provided no feedback, no shake, no sound. The pipper changed color to indicate the target was centered, and blackened into a small star when the gun was fired—that was it. He couldn’t feel the momentum-stealing vibration or the quick shudder as the gun’s barrels spun out their lead. But at least he could see the results of his handiwork: the lead vehicle, a four-door pickup truck with three or four men in the back, imploded as the bullets split it neatly in two. He nudged his nose upward and found the second truck, this one a more traditional mili-

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