End Game by Dale Brown

Author:Dale Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Aboard the Levitow,

over Pakistan

0348

BREANNA STUDIED THE MAP ENSIGN ENGLISH HAD JUST SENT to her station, showing where she proposed that Piranha control buoys be dropped. Worried about losing touch with the probe, she’d ordered it back east when the port was attacked. Now they were trying to locate the earlier contact, but hadn’t had any luck. English wanted to look farther south in the direction of the Indian fleet, but that wasn’t going to happen while the two sides were throwing stones at each other.

“Good map, Ensign,” she told her, “but it’s going to be a while. Put Piranha in autonomous mode if you have to.”

“I have to.”

“Two more PAF F-16s querying us,” interrupted Stewart, her voice shrill. “They’re challenging us.”

“Tell them who we are,” said Breanna. She turned inland toward Karachi at about twenty thousand feet. Even from that altitude she could see the fire at the terminal.

The Dreamland communications channel buzzed with an incoming message from the Wisconsin. Breanna snapped it on and her father’s helmeted face appeared on her screen.

“Breanna, what are you doing that far east?”

“We’re trying to get back control of the Piranha and look for that submarine,” she said. “And I want to stay close to Danny and the Osprey.”

“As soon as the Osprey is out of there, return to base,” he told her. “Refuel, and then get back on station. Be prepared to relocate to Diego Garcia.”

“We’re bugging out?”

“The Pentagon thinks Karachi is being targeted. They want us out of there. I checked with Jed; the President agrees we should relocate. Jed’s helping work out the details.”

“Just like that?” said Breanna. Using either Crete or Diego Garcia as a base would add several hours to the patrol time.

“The Pakistani defenses around Karachi won’t do much against a concentrated attack,” said the colonel. “We’re sitting ducks there.”

“Dreamland Levitow acknowledges.”

“Our two other crews are in the process of bugging out as well,” Dog told her. “I’ll keep you advised.”

“Roger that.”

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