Keep the Faith (Echoes of War Book 5) by Daniel Gibbs

Author:Daniel Gibbs [Gibbs, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

David tossed a glance over his shoulder to the large dune the 4X4 they’d been riding on was left behind. After only a kilometer, his feet were aching, thanks to the combination of ill-fitting boots from the embassy’s stock and scorching sand. Yeah, fleet life is soft compared to the Marines. Calvin’s got a point when he ribs us about it. Suppressing a smirk, he worked his legs through the soft sand to keep up with Eldred. “Okay, what’s the plan here, besides getting ridiculously high levels of UV radiation exposure?”

“We need information,” she replied, as if that explained everything.

“Sure. Like where your contact is and why security is so tight.”

Eldred stopped and glanced back at him. “Still not responding. I have to assume she’s been found out.”

“Isn’t that premature?”

“When you’ve been in intelligence as long as I have, Colonel, let’s say one develops a sixth sense about these things,” she replied, her tone somber. “We’re not far from the town Feldt’s built out here, if you could call it that. More like a bunch of dilapidated buildings grouped together, while he gives away food and drugs to the people that ‘work’ for him.”

David furrowed his brow together and frowned in disgust. “Men like him undermine my confidence in humanity. We’d better press on. It’s not getting any cooler out here, and I feel like I’ve lost ten pounds of water through sweat.”

“It’s a dry heat.”

With a small chuckle, he resumed plodding through the dune, churning his legs in a manner reminiscent of a paddleboat. They climbed to the crest of the small hill of sand and found several dilapidated buildings below them. David dropped to his belly immediately, as did Eldred. “Not many people out.”

“It’s the heat of the day. They typically stay inside until this planet’s sun starts to set.”

“You must come here a lot.”

“How do you think the dead drops went down? I didn’t trust anyone else to do it.”

“Ah,” he replied, understanding in an instant the lengths she was willing to go, and how personal it was. “So again, what’s the plan?”

“Patience, Colonel,” she said as she pulled a scanning device off her waist. “Let’s do some snooping.” Silence reigned for several minutes. “Each of those houses down there has people in them, but the one to the right only has one, a military-aged male and no one else.”

A lightbulb went off in David’s mind. “We’re paying him a visit?”

“Feldt loves to brag when he catches an informant, and he can’t miss taking a victory lap to rail against the Terran Coalition. He hates us religious do-gooders, as he puts it. If nothing else, we can get the lay of the land.”

“Okay. We’re just going to rush down there and bust into this guy’s house?”

“Got a better idea, Colonel?” Eldred replied with a dazzling grin.

Taking a moment to consider where they were, without backup, the idea of flying by the seat of his pants was utterly foreign to David. He shook his head with a sigh. The military is about processes, procedures, and plans.

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