Code Name: Ghost by Natasza Waters

Author:Natasza Waters
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary
Publisher: Secret Cravings Publishing
Published: 2013-07-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The sand scratched its way down his throat as the four DPVs, desert patrol vehicles, crossed an open plain back to the base camp. They’d been sucking back wind and sand all night. The fast attack vehicles built like armored dune buggies handled the Afghanistan desert with ease. The country’s topography was merciless on outsiders, but they’d adapted, deploying many times to the Middle East since the beginning of the U.S. insurgence. Saying they were used to it would be an overstatement, but they knew what to expect.

His team and the Dev Group, the infamous Team Six, had joined up two weeks ago for a mission. Every night they ran reconnaissance. Scanning the faces of his men and those from Dev, he saw the toll last night had taken. It had been a harsh one, running into two unexpected Al-Qaeda foot soldier squads a couple hundred kilometers to the south. They’d chased them down with Fox leading half the team and he with the other half.

The SEALs had skills others didn’t, but they also had support. They were still waiting for some expertise to come in from both coasts before the final move on their target in the White Mountains.

He thumbed the grit from his watch, zero nine hundred local. They needed to wash up and get some well-deserved sleep. The camp lay ahead of them, within the NATO stronghold, small and disguised amongst mounds of craggy rock and a hundred kilometers of desert in every direction.

The vehicles came to a dusty halt and the men vaulted from the DPVs into the blistering heat. Twisting the kinks out of his neck, he scanned the camp, hauling his equipment onto his shoulder. He and the men headed toward the camouflaged canvas cover used to escape the sun and eat. Food first, since they hadn’t had anything in their bellies since yesterday.

Commander Segal of Dev Group sat down in front of him. “’Morning, Thane.”

“’Morning, Joe.”

“Hard one last night. You had everyone awake till it was over.”

“Definitely took a bite out of us. A couple more nights, and I think we’ll have carved a path deep enough to get what we want.”

Joe nodded. “I agree. By the way, the tactical specialists and liaisons arrived an hour ago.”

“Good, bringing any news we need?”

“One did. Don’t know how they fetched it out. Maps of the caverns are nonexistent. Old crap from when the Russians were here, but they say she can find things others miss.”

The spoon hovered halfway to his lips. A drop of stew splattered to the table. “She?” His eyes rose to meet Joe’s.

“Yeah, we agreed to bring in the best. So that’s what I got.”

A spoon dropped to the table. Mace sat beside Joe and his eyes widened. “No—fucking—way,” he stammered.

The rest of the team looked up, and Cobbs muttered, “Oh, shit.”

Anger overtook the heat of the sun burning his back. He jerked around and vaulted from the table. What the hell! She was like a mirage, camouflaged in fatigues like everyone else, but no one filled a pair of pants like her.

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