Supernova EMP Series (Book 3): Bitter End by Hamilton Grace

Author:Hamilton, Grace [Hamilton, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP
Published: 2020-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

14

Clitheroe had been nailed to the wall of the school from which he’d launched the attack on the Cumberland Community Hospital. Maxine couldn’t be sure if the portly, mustachioed leader of the Third Maryland Defenders had been alive or dead when the Harbormaster’s men had crucified him, but his body was well on the way to putrefaction now.

The tables had turned in Cumberland again, and that became more and more clear as Maxine and the others were brought into the city by Ten-Foot and his red uniformed forces; they had seen flashes of red everywhere. Flags had been raised—crudely painted H’s surrounded by a ring of white stars on a red background. The designs on the flags looked as if they’d been slapped on by unpracticed hands, but the message coming from each flag was clear—the city was under new management, and if you got in the way of that, you were nailed to a wall.

Ten-Foot had told Maxine and the others very little, other than that they were going back into town to get supplies, and that then they would be going south to meet the Harbormaster in northern Florida. Storm had been allowed to ride in the buggy, but Tally-Two was driven on by a Harborman (as Ten-Foot referred to his men) and Maxine was left to walk alongside Larry and Poppet.

She held onto the fact that, although Keysell had been left to die in a puddle of his own blood, and the rest of the Defenders had been shot down by the cavalry or scattered to the winds, she hadn’t seen the bodies of Tally or Henry. So, there was a good chance they had been able to escape.

Once they got past Clitheroe’s body on the outside of Lincoln Memorial Elementary, Maxine and others, hands tied behind their backs, were taken into the building and along the corridors to where Clitheroe had once had his headquarters. The large room in the administration block had been scarred by bullets. The windows had been broken. There were puddles of blood, which had been covered in sand, and the tables where Clitheroe had done his planning for the successful raid on the hospital were still in place.

“Wait here,” Ten-Foot said to the captives as two Harbormen covered them with their weapons. Ten-Foot walked across the room to where a knot of red-uniformed Harbormen were talking in low tones. Ten-Foot approached a tall, Slavic-boned, arrow-straight man in his forties with a floppy brown fringe, his hair completely shaved from the back and sides of his head. Ten-Foot saluted him sloppily. The Slavic clapped Ten-Foot on the shoulder and smiled. “You’ve done well, boy. Done well, indeed! We’ll make an officer of you yet.”

Maxine could see that Ten-Foot was enjoying the praise. She was only tangentially aware of who Ten-Foot was. She thought that maybe Tally or Josh had mentioned him to her back when the team-building trip on the Sea-Hawk had been in its planning stages. A young, perhaps seventeen-year-old—now, maybe

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