The World On Fire by Boyd Craven III

Author:Boyd Craven III [Craven III, Boyd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-05T00:00:00+00:00

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Sauz, Mexico - The New Caliphate -

“I am missing Rishaan’s report,” Khalid told his subordinate.

“He has not radioed back in,” he was told.

“Find out; I don’t want to send a small force to the auxiliary airport if I do not have to,” he snarled.

“Yes, of course,” the other man replied, before turning to leave.

Their main objective had been met months ago, when what was supposed to have been a satellite launch had in fact been a joint effort between the New Caliphate and North Korea - who supplied the material and equipment - to detonate a nuclear reaction above the United States. They believed that they had done what no other country or nation had ever done: utterly defeat and annihilate a government without suffering losses themselves.

They’d let the Americans throw away their lives, overextending the military, making them spend money they didn’t have… wasting lives. They did not understand that not all wars were fought the way they had been. Khalid Abdul was born to parents who had been killed by weapons that the Americans had supplied to various factions around the Middle East and he’d been raised on the run, from one government or another, by his great uncle. He’d fought in Afghanistan and was heading to Syria when he was called to change his plans and fulfill his lifelong dream.

Revenge. Power. He wasn’t a religious man himself, not like the Caliphate’s leader, but to admit that would be literal suicide considering the company he kept. He prayed like everyone else, knew what to say and when to say it, but a lifetime of horrors had steeled his heart against any sort of faith. Revenge and power fueled him; that was his course and that was his religion. One of his most trusted scouts, Rishaan, had been sent out three days ago to scout the Laughlin Air Force Base’s auxiliary airport.

His job was to have been simple: scout the area to make sure it was a backup landing strip. The aerial photography he got made it look as if it was just that’s all it was. If that was the case, the main attacking force would be centered on the main base north of there. His attack would be the first overt move against the government he hated. The government that supplied weapons and money, corrupting men’s minds with their lies. The other commanders had done smaller invasions throughout the southwest United States, but the reason his men called him the ‘Spear of Allah’, was because he planned to strike at the heart of the country.

“Sir,” the man was back, “Rishaan cannot be raised. He is not transmitting—“

“Or he’s dead,” Khalid said, “Very well. I want two squads to head to this location where Khalid must have been and—“

“His radio beacon is still active, and they say it hasn’t moved.”

“What?” Khalid asked.

“So we could track his progress; his radio has a GPS chip in it. It hasn’t moved since last night. He’s a little north of the location he was to have scouted.

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