Rigged: The Second American Civil War (The Falling Empires Series Book 1) by James Rosone & Miranda Watson

Author:James Rosone & Miranda Watson [Rosone, James & Watson, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Front Line Publishing Inc.
Published: 2019-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

Washington, D.C.

Pentagon Operations Center

It was 2109 hours when Secretary of Defense Charles “Chuck” McElroy dropped a couple of Alka-Seltzers in his glass of water, waiting for the tablets to dissolve before he could gulp the liquid down. His heartburn was killing him, and he needed to get it under control.

Looking up at the video display, he saw it was 0309 hours local time in Bosnia. The Osprey had just landed in a field near the target location in Tjentiste, near the Montenegro-Serbian border, disgorging its cargo of operators. The ground forces would hike a quick mile to the target location as they sought to maintain their stealth. The Reaper drone circling overhead was providing him with excellent real-time surveillance of the surrounding area, and another screen showed a thermal image of the targeted building, courtesy of a CIA satellite some sixty miles above them.

McElroy watched as one group of helicopters dropped off a team of twelve Delta operators. Twenty minutes later, his Alka-Seltzer had started to kick in, and he watched a smaller group of four operators rapidly approached the roof of the targeted building from the air. They had HALOed in and were quickly closing in on the location that intelligence sources had said housed Sefer Kubura, the leader of the ISB.

The Secretary of Defense watched anxiously, barely remembering to breathe. When the soldiers who were parachuting in got close to the roof, they shot the two guards there with their silenced rifles, making sure their presence remained undetected. By the time the guards in the building could hear the rotor noise of the Ospreys, the four operators who’d landed on the roof were readying themselves to breach the building from the top down.

The twelve-man team that had landed further away and hiked in fanned out into two separate groups. One group of six approached the targeted house, while the other ground team moved toward the two outbuildings nearby. Their Bosnian source had said the outlying buildings were acting as a barracks of sorts, housing as many as fifteen armed insurgents.

Another computer monitor suddenly came to life. One of the technicians had added the views from the head-mounted cameras the operators were wearing. There was a split screen, and McElroy quickly ascertained which image was from one of the operators on the roof and which was from the team heading toward the same building from the ground level.

The Secretary of Defense suddenly heard audio of one of the men, half a world away. “Five, four, three, two, one…!” Then he saw a bright flash on the rooftop door.

BOOM.

In seconds, a second flash was soon followed by a short whoomf as a flash-bang went off. Then the four operators on the roof swiftly burst into the building. McElroy watched as the other two groups of operators on the ground almost simultaneously burst through the doors of the remaining buildings on the property.

In the span of three minutes, the Delta operators had captured Sefer Kubura alive, along with a handful of his lieutenants.

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