The Atlantis Guard by S. A. Beck

Author:S. A. Beck [Beck, S. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B077V8KWPV
Publisher: Beck Books
Published: 2017-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

AUGUST 15, 2016, THE DESERT OUTSIDE TIMBUKTU

7:30 A.M.

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Hold your position and wait for reinforcements. Hold your position and wait for reinforcements.

That had always been her least favorite order in the Special Forces. She wasn’t the kind of person to sit around and do nothing when there was action going down.

Isadore Grant paced around the little camp she and Brett had set up in the desert twenty miles north of Timbuktu. Two small tents stood nestled in a sandy swale between a pair of low, rocky hills. The position was too open and exposed for her liking, but it was the best they could find in this featureless desert.

A few hundred yards to the north, a rented Land Rover stood parked in a cluster of bushes with a small tent next to it. The roof of the Land Rover poked above the tops of the bushes and gleamed in the sunlight, visible from a good distance away. That was the distraction. Hopefully if the Russians tracked her here, they’d attack that camp and give her some warning. Considering their level of training, that little trick probably wouldn’t work.

After getting attacked in her hotel the first night she had arrived, Isadore knew the Russians were in the thick of this mess. They obviously had a whole team here.

Did they know about Jaxon and the Atlantis Allegiance, or were they simply spying on the largest Atlantean community in North Africa?

Whatever they were up to, they were certainly on the ball. They’d heard of her arrival and assembled an assault team within hours. When she had reported in to General Corbin, he had told her to get out of town and wait until she got reinforcements. All he had said was “the twins are coming.” He didn’t need to say any more.

The McKay twins. She shuddered. No one creeped her out more than those two, not even the chemically created zombie teenager sharing her camp.

He lay on the hill to the north, as still as a stone, watching the surrounding countryside. He’d been up there for hours and would remain there for years if she didn’t tell him otherwise. The perfect sentry. Good in a fight too. He sure had helped when the Russians came bursting through the door. So far, field testing of the artificially created Atlanteans was going well. An army of these creatures would be unstoppable.

Isadore opened up her laptop and adjusted a small satellite dish linked to the computer. The dish was tuned to pick up the narrowband frequency of a CIA satellite. General Corbin had given her the access codes even though she wasn’t CIA, and that counted as treason. He was helpful that way. Once she logged in, she began to search all the intelligence about the region, especially regarding Russian involvement. Usually she did this before setting out on a mission, but General Corbin had sent her out at the last minute, and she had thought she only had to deal with the Atlantis Allegiance.

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