Gray Retribution

Author:Alan McDermott [McDermott, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781477823866
Amazon: 1477823867
Goodreads: 20917815
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2014-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

When the firing stopped, Gray ordered the men to fall back to where Levine and the other half of the team had been busy preparing the first of the ambushes. They hadn’t gone far when bullets once again began to thud into the trees around them, and they upped the pace to a sprint. It took a minute to reach the others, after crossing an open area the size of a football field.

The kill zone.

Gray stopped at the treeline and took the controls to the remaining sentinel from Sonny. He waited until the first of the attackers was visible across the open expanse, then he ran into cover, hoping to draw the enemy in for those lying in wait.

An armed, human wall jogged towards them, and Gray was glad to see the Malundian troops holding fire, ignoring the wild, incoming rounds and allowing the enemy to enter the danger zone. According to Smart, Okeke and his men hadn’t exactly covered themselves in glory thus far. Perhaps they now realised that with the arrival of his team, one more fuck-up would see them relegated to carrying the elderly rather than defending their land.

Gray was seconds away from opening up when something struck him as wrong. The approaching figures were much smaller than he’d expected, and when the moon peeked through a gap in the clouds he could see that some had barely reached puberty.

They were well within range, and he had about ten seconds to make a decision.

‘Tom,’ Levine whispered into the comms unit, ‘they’re just kids!’

‘Understood,’ Gray replied. ‘Wait one.’

Gray’s training told him that anyone running towards them firing a weapon was a legitimate target, and during selection it had been suggested that they might one day face this very scenario. However, it was much easier to hypothesise about bringing down a child than it was to actually do it in the heat of battle. Then again, he realised that you didn’t always get to choose your enemy, and if they were to leave this country alive, a tough decision had to be made.

Thoughts of his son Daniel came flooding, unbidden, into his mind. He would have been six years old now, if he hadn’t been stolen from him so cruelly three years earlier, the incident that had driven Gray to actions no-one could ever have predicted. The pain he’d felt since Daniel’s death was something he would wish on no man, so filling dozens of tiny body bags was not going to happen.

That said, they had to be stopped.

‘Shoot low,’ he advised the men. ‘Go for the legs only.’

The troops adjusted their aim, lowering the sights a couple of feet from centre mass. Like Gray, many were uncomfortable with the idea of cutting kids down, but the weapons the boys were carrying were no toys, and it was self-preservation that caused the first of the rounds to fly from the men’s rifles.

Youths began to collapse a split-second before Hansi Cisse could scream out his child’s name.

‘Nafari!’

Hansi stood and broke from the treeline, ignoring the hot metal whizzing around him as he ran towards his son.

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