The David Rivers Series: Books 1-3: Greatest Enemy, Offer of Revenge, and Dark Redemption by Jason Kasper

Author:Jason Kasper [Kasper, Jason]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-13T22:00:00+00:00

8

After checking that there were no vehicles within view, I knelt to my combat pack and sipped from a flexible hose to gain a mouthful of hot river water tinted with the medicinal taste of plastic and iodine tablets.

It was almost noon, the heat soaring into the mid-nineties as we rolled down the red dirt path extending as far as I could see in either direction.

We had passed little in the way of traffic aside from the occasional van or motorcycle overburdened with people and cargo, the occupants acting remarkably unperturbed by the sight of our bullet-ridden pickup mounted with a heavy machinegun.

I had kept my shemagh and sunglasses on and my sleeves rolled down over shooting gloves that now served a purpose beyond hiding my skin color. Other than its wood handles, my Dushka had become too hot to touch.

Since leaving Kamsuuma, it had taken us a full two and a half hours to cover forty-five miles. Our movement was slowed by a twelve-mile stretch of alternating dirt trails and off-road movement as we detoured around the town of Jilib, where militia checkpoints would surely have been bolstered in search of the captured truck headed their way. Now we were on a different road headed east, making good time as we watched for a break in the dry riverbed that was thinning enough to soon be passable by truck. Once we crossed it, we had a scant thirty miles of off-road driving to reach our landing zone.

From behind the wheel, Jais called, “You see a break in that riverbed yet?”

“Not yet, but we should be able to cross it soon. Shame it didn’t rain this far north, because I’m running out of water fast.”

“Then drink less,” he yelled.

“Easy for you to judge from inside the truck. It feels like the surface of the sun back here.”

“It’s almost noon on the equator. Were you expecting Greenland?”

“Don’t give me that. We would have been there by now if you hadn’t taken so long on the Jilib bypass.”

“If we hadn’t found a cross-country route around Jilib, this truck would be a pile of twisted metal right now. Besides, I offered to switch you out on the gun and you refused.”

“I’m trying to pull my weight on this op, okay?”

“Don’t act like you’re back there for my benefit. Since you shot the Dushka, it’s become the other woman in our relationship.”

“You’re wrong about that, Jais. Since I shot the Dushka, you’ve become the other woman.”

I scanned the riverbed to my left as the crease in the land continued to narrow. We’d be moving off road again within minutes, and once we’d crossed into the open desert and began driving northward, our odds of being effectively pursued by the enemy would lessen by the minute. We were virtually guaranteed to make our landing zone; then, the only question became whether the Silver Widow’s reception party would still be there to greet us twelve hours past our anticipated parachute landing. If they weren’t, I felt

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