Foreign Enemies And Traitors (The Enemies Trilogy) by Matthew Bracken

Author:Matthew Bracken [Bracken, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Steelcutter Publishing
Published: 2011-06-17T05:00:00+00:00

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There was dead silence around the table when Jenny finished her story. Then Doug hesitantly said, “I don’t blame you for feeling that way. If that’s all it was—a form of self-defense. But I’ve seen when it goes too far…way too far. Completely out-of-control too far. Let me tell you what happened after I missed being barbequed. I stayed with my rescuers for two weeks after the second earthquake. Their leader was a man named Web Hardesty. He was the guy who cut my ropes off when they saved me. Wade Ewell Browning Hardesty the Third. They called him Web. He was maybe in his mid-forties, with a beard like Boone’s. Well, maybe it was trimmed shorter. Like a big goatee, sort of. And his hair was darker, and he wasn’t quite as tall as Boone, but otherwise they could have been related. Maybe brothers even.

“Hardesty had a great setup. His family owns about a hundred acres on a side creek off the Wolf River. Both sides of the creek, all the way down to the Wolf. He’s rich, seriously loaded, but I never heard him mention where he made his money. It was family money, I think. I got the impression that this wasn’t his only place. Hardesty had his own little band of survivalists staying with him after the earthquakes. There was even a little barracks house with ten bunk beds, just ready to go. Generators and everything. Like your friend’s hunting retreat in Mississippi, but on a bigger budget, a way bigger budget. He had a nice house there too, where his close friends and their families were living. Hardesty was probably just waiting for the shit to hit the fan. His friends and him were ready for anything, and fully equipped. Picture a whole squad of Rangers or SEALs. Maybe a little past their prime, but still hard-asses, and armed to the teeth.”

Jenny shrugged. “So, what’s wrong with that? That sounds like a good place to me.”

“Nothing, not a thing. But these guys were twisted. I went out with them on ‘rescue missions.’ It sounds plausible. They were going out to rescue their friends who were stuck in dangerous places when the shit hit the fan. They had boats, jeeps, dirt bikes…I heard they even had a Cessna, but I didn’t see it while I was with them.”

“I wish a group like that had come and rescued my family,” said Jenny.

“I’m sure you do. But that wasn’t the whole picture. The ‘rescue missions’ turned into something else. Those good old boys, they had night vision scopes, infrared lasers, silencers…everything. They were very intense, very high strung. To listen to them, it sounded like they all knew somebody who had been raped or murdered by blacks, and you know that’s just not possible. But maybe they did see some pretty terrible things.”

“Like you, about to be eaten by cannibals,” Jenny noted dryly.

“Yeah, that’s true. That’s one example. But I think those guys were just waiting for something like the earthquakes to happen.

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