Gray Panthers: Battle for Earth by David Guenther

Author:David Guenther [Guenther, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Sample Book
Publisher: David Guenther
Published: 2014-12-24T07:00:00+00:00

Vulture Mountains, Arizona

1 April 2126

Waking up in a sweat, it took Dan a minute to realize where he was. The grumbling in his belly was an excellent reminder of what awaited him in the fridge. A small chunk of ram meat quickly became a small steak as he poured a tiny bit of oil into the frying pan and dropped the steak in with a handful of seasoning. Taking a camp chair and the fixings for his breakfast to the mouth of the shaft, he noticed numerous small animal tracks at the shaft entrance. Settling down in the chair the view down the mountain was as breathtaking as always. The steak was tough and undercooked as Dan wished he still had his old mining partner, Abdul. Flashing back on his partner, remembering the first time they had met when Abdul had been attached to his unit in the Iran war and his general distrust of the foreigner. Abdul always managed to show up whenever anyone was getting ready to be screwed in transactions with the locals and scolded the men when they were being too generous with the local merchants. His ability to see through the lies as locals were being interrogated added to the men's respect for him. Abdul was fully accepted by the unit when he single handedly broke an ambush that the unit walked into in a “green zone.” His dispatch of enemy wounded, a single shot in the forehead, was cold and deliberate. His motivation was only learned when an intel officer let slip that Abdul was Christian and had watched as his entire family was raped and murdered in front of him and then left him for dead with a bullet in his head. When peace was declared, he was to be left behind, since amnesty was to be respected for all belligerents who took up arms against the Iranian government. Knowing he was a dead man walking, the unit was able to smuggle him to the states. With a pile of money collected from the unit he disappeared to California so he could start over in a safe city, that would not prosecute any illegal aliens in their midst. He did well for himself and in due course received a green card during an election year when amnesty for illegals was granted. He eventually moved to Arizona enjoying the desert and prospecting with Dan. He insisting on doing all the cooking, until the year before when a DHS agent put a bullet in his back, when Abdul ”made a suspicious move” during a rolling security sweep. The bullet left him paralyzed from the neck down, and a resident of Surprise Assisted living facility where they waited for him to die as he continued to fight for life to the present day.

Refreshed, he took one last look across the desert before turning back toward the shaft. Today he would go back down to get all the antiques and take another shot at the breaking through the wall to see what was on the other side.

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