Cartel Part Two by John O'Brien

Author:John O'Brien
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, horror, military, apocalypse, creatures, survival, postapocalpyse
Publisher: John O'Brien

Chapter Ten

The next day, the news is alive with reports of cartel gunmen filling the streets, brazenly driving around in vehicles with mounted machine guns. Fights between the cartel and law enforcement drag through city streets, the police agencies retreating after numerous casualties. Several army vehicles were ambushed and burned when they entered the town. They also withdrew, leaving behind their dead and injured lining the streets.

Several federal government figures were taken hostage, their bodyguards, along with any responding law enforcement, killed. The government clearly lost control of several cities, and possibly a lot more than that considering they pulled out and chose not to fight. But, that’s their problem and not any of my business. I’m pretty sure this is in retaliation for the government allowing us to operate in the country. I feel bad for those slain and injured, but this fight was lost years and years ago. The cartels are too deeply enmeshed in the country, and their bribes prevent the government from being able to do anything about it.

But that fight is behind us. Upon returning to the ship, Lynn began coordinating assets to deliver us to Ortiz. We heard the news en route to the Caribbean, arriving in the middle of the night at the Key West International Airport before being transported to the US Coast Guard Sector Key West where we boarded a cutter, complete with an MH-60R and an inflatable. One additional cutter will join us, along with several high-speed boats. We depart immediately to cover the ten-plus hours around the Bahamas to the target location.

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Sunlight glimmers off the calm seas, nearly blinding at times. The sea flashes past as we speed across the water at over twenty-five knots, the high bow wave loudly splashing back to the surface. Behind, our wake spreads white with churned water. Flanking us on either side, two armed speedboats keep pace, creating white arcs of spray that catch the light. Further off, the superstructure of the second cutter is barely visible as it plows on a parallel course, trailed by two additional speedboats. That group will swing into a flank, if necessary, to cut off any attempt at escape.

Angel Six has our overhead cover and the yacht in sight as it sails south, obviously on the run and trying to make its way into Cuban territorial waters. That won’t do them much good, but it won’t matter either way as we’ll be upon them before they even come close. The cutter already has the yacht on radar, along with three response boats, two in front and one behind.

A white object appears over the horizon ahead. The second cutter swings around into a position to cut off the any turn the yacht may make while the armed response boats with them cut in toward the target. Our two swing wide to the opposite side and we gather aboard the helo, which is spooling up.

The cutter carves through the gentle seas, the bow waves from the armed response boats splashing wide.

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