Lieutenant Colonel by Rick Shelley

Author:Rick Shelley [Shelley, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936535361
Publisher: Jabberwocky Literary Agency
Published: 2000-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

It had been a long day. Lon was exhausted by the end of the meeting. He went to his quarters and sat on the bed, his mind caught between the need for sleep and a sense of urgency—the need to find a key to allow him to move his men against the raiders as soon as possible. He had seen some of the newsnet coverage of the massacre at Three Peaks, sampled some of the responses posted on Bancroft’s public nets. There was anger, and not all of it was directed at the raiders. Some was being vented against the government and the mercenaries brought in—”at tremendous cost,” one respondent noted—to prevent such disasters from happening.

I can’t do anything useful now, Lon thought, suppressing a yawn. My mind has turned to mush. I need sleep. Hopefully, a full night’s sleep. Maybe the answer will come to me in a dream. I’ll wake up in the morning and know what we have to do. He shook his head and nearly laughed at the absurdity of those thoughts—dream up an answer when his conscious mind could not provide one.

He glanced at the timeline across the top of his complink screen. It wasn’t eight-thirty—2030 hours—yet. He shook his head slowly, then leaned over to open his boots and take them off. That was as far as he bothered to go with undressing. He turned off the room lights and flopped over on the bed, asleep almost before the bed’s springs stopped vibrating. Deep sleep, void of troubling dreams—the sort of sleep only monumental exhaustion can bring.

It lasted less than four hours. His complink buzzed loudly, the volume increasing until he woke and hit the accept key.

Colonel Crampton was on the line. “More trouble, Colonel.”

Lon came completely awake.

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