The Battle of the Hammer Worlds by Graham Sharp Paul

Author:Graham Sharp Paul
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Pale and shaking, skin clammy with ice-cold sweat, Michael was still in shock when Yazdi finally got the truck’s antique holovid to work. She found a news channel, and they listened as a stunned commentator described the awful scene that had greeted the early arrivals for the day shift at the Barkersville police station. The local police commander came on and in a voice that was equal parts shock, horror, and bafflement admitted that they had no idea who might have caused the carnage. He could not comment further. Because one of their troopers had been killed, the matter was being handed over to DocSec for investigation.

“Got away clean,” Yazdi said laconically. She flicked off the holovid.

Michael grunted. There had been nothing clean about it at all. He was ashamed to admit it, but he had enjoyed knifing the DocSec trooper. The fierce burst of exhilaration exploding through his body as the knife went home had been pure ecstasy. But not the rest. They were ordinary coppers, with wives, kids, dogs, houses, mortgages, all that sort of stuff. He felt soiled by the sheer brutality of what he and Yazdi had done.

Michael got out of the truck and walked a little deeper into the woods in which they were hiding. He needed to be alone. He needed to get away from Yazdi. The realization that a large part of Yazdi was an utterly ruthless, totally amoral killing machine had come as a huge shock. He never had thought of her that way. Up to then, she had been only another marine, another green uniform, another reliable NCO. Yes, they needed guns, but did those guns have to come at the cost of five lives?

The life of one DocSec trooper would have been enough, surely.

Ten minutes later he made his way back. Yazdi looked at him sympathetically. “I know it’s not easy, but they are the fucking Hammer. So tuck it away, sir, and let’s start thinking about what comes next.”

Michael nodded. Yazdi was probably right. Christ, she had better be, though he knew he would never be able to tuck it away.

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