Kill Count by Brent Towns & Mark Allen

Author:Brent Towns & Mark Allen [Towns, Brent & Allen, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781641196215
Publisher: Wolfpack Publishing
Published: 2019-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

John F. Kennedy International Airport

New York

By the time Kane hustled back to JFK and hooked up with his team on the tarmac outside their HC-130, news of the latest terror attacks had gone public, along with Johnny Jihad’s latest video. Footage of the George Washington Bridge destruction played in endless loops, interrupted only by shots of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, surrounded by a sea of emergency vehicles and yellow tape. Smoke wreathed the church like fog as paramedics carried the dead out under white sheets, the wheels of the stretchers rattling over shattered stone and crunching on broken glass. Every major television channel was covering the tragedy; even MTV had interrupted its regularly-scheduled reality TV programming in order to focus on the far grimmer reality out in the Big Apple.

Brick Peters was staring at his phone screen, watching one of the cable news channels, when Kane arrived. The ex-Navy SEAL shook his head at all the death and destruction. “Hell of a thing, hey, Reaper?”

“Yeah,” Kane said. “It sucks dick, big time.”

“I’m guessing CNN won’t want to use that quote, but they should, because you make it sound positively Shakespearean.”

“You think that’s good, you should hear my ‘Fuck yous.’ Pure poetry.”

Brick put away his phone. “Watching this shit makes me wish we were going after terrorists instead of cartels. I’d like to get a little payback for the good ol’ U.S. of A.”

“Then I’ve got good news,” Kane said. “Thurston called just before I got here. You’ve been pulled off this mission and reassigned to Chief Hunt’s SEAL team. Jones wants you to assist them with taking down this terrorist cell.”

“Are you serious?”

“As a heart attack. They’re going to run a decoy op and see if Johnny takes the bait. You’ll get all the details at the briefing but looks like you’re playing decoy.”

Brick caught on quick. “So I’m standing in for the President.”

“Looks that way.”

“So if this op goes sideways, my head gets chopped off on live TV.”

Kane slapped him on the shoulder. “Don’t worry, I hear it only hurts for a minute.”

“That’s messed up, Reaper.”

“You want me to get you pulled from the mission? It’s not like we don’t have our own job to do.”

Brick shook his head. “Negative. I’ll do it. Surprised they tapped me though. Thought we had a monogamous relationship with the cartels.”

“You just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” Kane said. “And when the President asks you to help take down the biggest terrorist in the world, you don’t say no.”

“You got that right.”

“Good. Now get out of here. You’ve got a briefing to catch.”

As Brick trotted off, Kane turned to Cara, Axe, and Arenas. “We need to be wheels-up in fifteen. Where’s Traynor?”

The three team members exchanged glances and shuffled their feet, but nobody said anything.

Kane frowned. “Somebody want to tell me what’s going on? Where’s Pete?”

With a let’s get it over with sigh, Axe said, “He’s still at the hospital with Reardon.”

“Are you kidding me?”

Sensing his rising anger, Cara quickly added, “Cut him some slack, Reaper.

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