Above and Beyond by Jim Morris

Author:Jim Morris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vietnam war, special forces, fiction action adventure, vietnam war novel
Publisher: Antenna Books

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Twenty minutes later they blew by the Rotary Club sign on the edge of town. “Our airlift will be here in two hours. McLeod wants you and me to go in with the lead company.”

Shoogie passed everything on the road. Little kids saw the look in his eyes and dropped their thumbs. “Who’s got the lead company?” he shot at Neil without turning his head.

“Bear.”

Shoogie slowed down as they entered the traffic circle. He gunned around the corner by the cathedral. He and Neil got out a block from the Chao’s. The two of them padded silently, stoop-shouldered, down the street. Shoogie’s “K” was draped over his shoulder, and Neil wore his pistol in a shoulder holster. They wore serious expressions, and people made way for them.

They turned in at the Chao’s and stepped into the showroom. The old gentleman in the homburg and the undershirt sat behind the counter, manipulating an abacus, and marking the figures down in a notebook.

“Boys upstairs?” Shoogie asked.

The old man nodded.

Halfway up the stairs they stopped and screwed the silencers onto the barrels of their weapons.

They pushed through the screen door as they entered through the kitchen, rattling six-packs of empty coke and orangeade cartons stacked behind the door.

“Hey, George! Bernard!” Neil called.

Bernard’s high, slightly lisping voice answered from inside. “We here.”

They walked through the dining room and around a Chinese screen. George and Bernard sat on the couch, George leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, a cup of green tea warming his hands. Bernard sat, petting a Siamese kitten, one leg tucked under his body. His tea sat on the table. They both looked up and smiled. “Did you ever find out what czaz meant?” George asked. They were both sweaty. A basketball and wet towel lay beside the couch.

Neil opened his mouth to tell Bernard to put the kitten down, but Shoogie cut in, “Yeah, we brought you some,” and fired.

George’s body jerked four times as Shoogie walked a burst up from his belly to his head. His body was almost ripped apart.

The kitten jumped as Neil drew the .22 and fired twice into Bernard’s amazed face. One round went in his mouth and the other into his left eye, both of which were wide open.

Shoogie looked at his watch. “We better hurry. I wanta talk to Bear before we take off.”

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