Soldiers Field: Prequel to the Octagon Series by JK Ellem

Author:JK Ellem
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 28th Street Multimedia Group
Published: 2017-11-13T07:00:00+00:00

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It was a subtle movement but not missed by Kobe. De Soto moved her right hand closer to her sidearm, the inside of her forearm now touching the grip of the weapon, fingers relaxed.

At the far end of the alley, the wall of darkness shifted and rippled like black fabric. It parted and three figures materialized like wraiths from the underworld. One figure led in front with two much larger shapes flanking each side. Despite still being some distance away, De Soto could already tell from the short height and the hunched gait who the lead figure was.

Magnus Krell, the Head of the Bureau of Public Order.

Krell was a particularly nasty, narcissistic man who used the enormous power that he wielded to compensate for his physical shortcomings. Slight of frame, hunched and short in stature, his ferret-faced features, dark beady eyes and slicked-back oily black hair hid a clever and highly intelligent individual. Despite his physical demeanor giving the appearance of a weak and challenged individual, he was cruel, manipulative and totally ruthless in his role. With unfettered access to the ear of every member of the Collective, it was said that Krell could bend and shape the vast direction of Octagon itself to suit his own brutal ambitions. Day or night, he wore his signature black uniform: a high-collar black tunic and black breeches with knee-high black jack-boots that were polished like glossy crude oil.

The two hulking shapes that lumbered forward on either side of Krell were Enforcers. The Enforcers were the elite guard of the Bureau. Whilst law enforcement officers like Kobe and De Soto maintained general law and order of the population, the Enforcers intervened to quell dissention or assist when law enforcement could not cope. They rarely engaged with law enforcement personnel and they took their orders directly from the Bureau. Their primary role was to enforce the directives of the Bureau, and they had total immunity from repercussions in carrying out that role, no matter how zealous. Numerous times, the Enforcers had overstepped their mark in public and overruled the LE officers, often dishing out unwarranted brutal and excessive force. Civil disobedience was what they hunted, and they crushed it with uncompromising force.

One particular situation still remained fresh in De Soto’s memory, when she was a First Year Officer, just as Kobe was now, fresh out of the LEA and full of beans. She and her mentor officer had detained and were questioning a suspected drug dealer in the street. In broad daylight, a nearby Enforcer intervened and beat the suspect to death with their baton. Innocent bystanders and a group of schoolchildren looked on in horror. When De Soto’s partner stepped in, he was beaten unconscious. Without thinking and just reacting on pure adrenalin and her training, De Soto drew her sidearm and fired at the Enforcer. Unfortunately for De Soto, her weapon was only set to stun. The stun round would have flattened any normal person, laying them out cold for about twenty minutes, but not an Enforcer.

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