Ranger (The Bugging Out Series Book 5) by Noah Mann

Author:Noah Mann [Mann, Noah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: prepper, Preparation, post apocalypse, survivalist, survival, apocalypse, bug out
Published: 2016-04-25T04:00:00+00:00

Twenty Five

Elaine took Grace and the children to our house while I searched for what Neil might have hidden in theirs.

After hearing what Olin had revealed, there was the thought that what had been put in me, and what still remained in Grace, Krista, and Brandon, might be some protection against the BA 412 virus. Through love for his family and some loyalty to me it was possible he’d leveraged his Unified Government brethren to have us protected should the weapon be released.

But released by whom?

“Fletch.”

I looked back through the open door to where Martin stood on the porch. Beyond him, Enderson and Quincy stood where the walkway met the sidewalk, keeping any curious neighbors moving. If these minimal procedures could be considered effective against what Olin had described, we were fooling ourselves.

“Yeah?”

“Angela thinks this is necessary,” Martin told me.

“But you don’t,” I said.

“No.”

“Neither do I,” I agreed with him. “Olin was right—he wouldn’t have kept something that dangerous here with his family.”

“And if he didn’t take it with him to the Unified Government...”

What Martin was suggesting was just a small nightmare scenario amongst many.

“It could be anywhere between here and his camp in Virginia,” I said.

His ‘camp’. Rolling acres of farmland. My friend’s refuge, not unlike what I’d manage to maintain north of Whitefish. If the truth of the stories both Neil and Olin had told were to be meshed, it was the place where Neil had killed his CIA controller, and where his father had left the world by his own hand. Once a bucolic getaway, it became a place of death.

“I’m sure Olin’s friends turned that place over and ran it through a sieve,” Martin said. “Which only leaves the whole country as a place where he could have hidden it. If he hid it at all.”

I scanned the living room, giving cursory attention to the myriad of places where one might stash something small. Behind me, Martin entered. My gaze shifted quickly to his closer presence.

“It’s not here, Fletch,” Martin said. “We’re not going to be infected.”

I faced the man and shook my head, though not in disagreement with his pronouncement.

“I just don’t get this, Martin. They put something in me, something in Grace and the kids, presumably to protect us, but from what?”

Once more I looked to the room, and to the hallway, and the adjacent spaces. Out the side windows. Through the front door. I was trying to make all the pieces fit. Every sliver of information from every source.

“Neil leaves, takes his family, has me snatched, sends his family back. Then some old spy buddy of his shows up looking for him because the Ranger Signal is some code word only the two of them know.”

“I’m not sure you’re ever going to understand why it happened,” Martin said.

“But it should,” I said, facing Martin again. “Something that...monumental in our lives should make absolute sense. So why doesn’t it? Why did Neil do it all in this cloak and dagger style that matches a life I knew nothing about.

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