Tinderbox (Flashpoint Book 1) by Rachel Grant

Author:Rachel Grant [Grant, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Janus Publishing
Published: 2017-02-13T18:30:00+00:00

Morgan wasn’t surprised Pax had been replaced. She knew how the Army worked and just hoped the scene in the bar didn’t result in worse punishment. Even though it had been his own stupid fault, she didn’t want his career to suffer. It was for his career that she was suffering, so it would be a shame if his work were compromised either way.

Sergeant Ripley took command of the security detail with ease. Sanchez said nothing, but Morgan had no doubt he was aware of the details. The resulting ride to the project area was long and silent. Once there, she, Ibrahim, and Mouktar settled into their routine while the marine and Green Beret patrolled their work area. They left the prehistoric village site and continued along the proposed route for the railroad, calling out isolated finds as they surveyed by walking in parallel lines ten meters apart.

Isolated artifacts were recorded in situ and left on the surface. If more artifacts were found, it was deemed a site, and they’d walk the area to determine site boundaries on the horizontal plane with shovel probes to determine depth. Just like she’d always done archaeology back home, except the tools she found here had the potential to be hundreds of thousands of years old, not hundreds or thousands.

This project, these sites and isolated finds, meant something. Her work would add to the scant but essential knowledge of how humans came to be. She still wondered if Linus was the catalyst for the explosion and coordinated assault on the base, but couldn’t for the life of her guess why—or how—considering the find had been a secret.

And if ISIS or the Taliban had gotten wind of the find and had attacked in an effort to crush knowledge that didn’t fit with their interpretation of Islam, they would have gone after the site directly. Not Camp Citron.

She couldn’t help but think this was about water. Possibly water that had been here five thousand years ago. Because if she’d seen the signs, as untrained as she was, then there was no doubt Broussard had seen the same thing. And he’d told someone.

Then he’d disappeared, and his report was cleansed of all information relating to the presence of water in this area in the recent geologic past.

She could think of only one reason someone would cover up such a find, and it was the one she’d told Pax. The water had gone somewhere, but it hadn’t gone away. What if Djibouti sat on a very deep aquifer, the kind that could sustain a country for generations?

Whoever controlled the water would be more than a warlord or even king. That person would be a god.

She considered going to the cultural or natural resources minister with her theory, but that was exactly what Broussard would have done, so she settled on Captain O’Leary, who might be able to bring in a US geologist. But when she returned from the field that afternoon, O’Leary was unavailable. She was no longer high priority.

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