The Wolves of Freydis by J C Ryan

Author:J C Ryan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781530663408
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36 -

Step up the surveillance

At the end of the seventh week of Carter’s training, he, Kevin and John flew out to Quebec City from where they caught a commercial flight to DC. Of the three, only Carter knew they were due to depart for Egypt within the next two weeks. Kevin and John, like Roy and Andre before them, were nice, level-headed guys; Carter liked them, as did Ahote, Bly, and Jeha. The wolves of Freydis had also accepted them.

Kevin and John turned out to be tough taskmasters when it came down to Carter’s training. They were every bit as tough, if not more so, than their predecessors, Andre, and Roy. Carter was now up to a seven-mile run every morning, half of which he and his trainers did while shouldering a backpack stuffed with 20-pound sandbags.

Carter’s body had substituted twenty pounds of fat for twenty pounds of muscle and the strength training, which included hundreds of sit-ups, push-ups, and chin-ups on a cross bar every day, was showing on his shoulders, arms, and stomach.

He had progressed to laser-gun shooting and was able to hit the target with his left hand 75% of the time, and 90% with his right. Every three days they would do a 3-hour hike of 15 miles carrying a 40-pound backpack and rifle. On these hikes, Carter had to keep a lookout for hidden silhouettes and shoot them with the laser. With a gun in each hand, he could hit two different targets in less than a second more than 80% of the times.

In the hand-to-hand combat sessions, he could take on either of them and beat them; it wouldn’t be long before he’d be able to take on both of them at the same time with a better than 50% chance of beating them.

They had started his close quarter combat training the week before, showing him how to work with a team of operators to clear a house, room by room and to know the positions and tasks of everyone in the team.

In the evenings after dinner, training continued with memory improvement and observation exercises. They showed Carter a video or a picture, and he would recount what he saw. Sometimes they put various items on a tray, let him look at it for three seconds, then covered it with a cloth and required him to tell them what he saw and the position of each item.

Because of his eidetic memory, Carter excelled at this. Within a week, he was able to recite what he saw with one hundred percent accuracy almost every time. Carter’s memory skills had Kevin and John shaking their heads in wonder. This was the type of challenge that most people improved with over time but never mastered; very few people ever got full marks. Carter was reaching those extraordinary levels after the first week.

The plan was for Carter’s training to continue while he was in DC; Irene and Dylan had pulled a few strings with some of their

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