Perdition Valley by James Axler

Author:James Axler [Axler, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781460373408
Google: JjpXAgAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Gold Eagle
Published: 2014-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The soft sounds of blasterfire drifted on the evening wind, a muted staccato that ebbed and flowed, then vanished.

“What the frag was that?” Sec chief Stirling demanded, reining in his mount.

The Two-Son ville sec men stopped their animals and listened hard to the wind. There was only the silken sigh of the bending weeds moving against one another. In the far distance a coyote howled and a stingwing announced a kill.

Then the crackles and pops came again. It sounded like explos and blasters.

The chief sec men frowned. No. Not blasters, rapidfires!

“Must be Ryan and the others,” Renée stated, kicking her mount into a gallop. “Nobody else has those kind of weps!”

“We found them!” Alton cried, lurching into action. “Yee-haw!”

“Cut the drek and get razor, people!” Stirling commanded, swinging the BAR rifle off his back. “If Ryan and the others are throwing lead, then you can be sure we’re riding into a shitstorm!”

“Well, that’s what Baron O’Connor sent us out here for!” Gill replied, holding the reins in one hand while drawing his sawed-off blaster with the other. “To protect their ass and get them back home, safe and alive.”

“Blood for blood!” Stirling shouted, giving the ancient code of unbreakable honor between sec men as a war cry. Ryan and the others had saved countless lives during their brief stay at the ville. Could the sec men do anything less in return?

As the others repeated the call, Nathan snapped his head toward the desert to the east. The light was dim, but it had almost seemed as if there were a couple of two-wheelers powering into the shifting dunes. But when he looked again, the shapes were gone. Had to have just been a moon shadow.

Unexpectedly, a star blossomed in the sky to their right, and slowly began to float back to Earth, shining an impossibly bright light on the flatlands.

“Over there!” Alton cried, pointing the way with his Remington.

Leading the way, Stirling jumped a small ravine and gave his mount full rein. The rough ground flashed below the pounding hooves of the black stallion as he headed for the dying star. Never seen anything like that before. Had to be Ryan and his people. Who else had tech like that?

Cresting a swell in the ground, the five riders galloped down into a depression and then exploded out of the other side onto level soil. Tightening his grip on the reins, Stirling frowned at the sight of a large copse of trees in an open field. One section of bushes was burning, and some men were shouting, but he couldn’t see them. Then as the sec chief watched, three big men burst out of the copse all piled onto a single two-wheeler. A motorcycle, as his grandpa would have called the machine. Stirling had never seen one of the wags in working condition before.

“Chief! Over in the dunes!” Renée shouted. “I think that I just saw—”

“Later!” Sterling barked as the sec men galloped closer to the stand of trees.

Suddenly the

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