Edge of Black by Ellison J. T

Author:Ellison, J. T. [Ellison, J. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, thriller, Suspense, Romance, Crime, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781459248977
Goodreads: 17017760
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Published: 2012-11-13T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

Dillon, Colorado

Alexander Whitfield

Xander watched for deer as he guided the truck higher and higher into the mountains, thinking simultaneously about how lovely Sam looked when she slept and about the Mountain Blue and Gray.

His “friend” was named Stephen Upland. In the unit, they called him 7UP for his upbeat personality. Xander hadn’t known him well—he was attached to Bravo Company and 7UP was in Charlie Company—but they crossed paths occasionally, and since they came from the same part of the world in their civilian lives, they occasionally hung out and talked about what they missed from back home. He had lived in the Mountain Blue and Gray community since he was a little kid, and had volunteered to go into the military to gain the training necessary to be the head of their defensive system should the economic collapse they feared occur.

He remembered the flack from Ledbetter’s book now. She’d posited that the Mountain Blue and Gray, and groups like them, were cults. That hadn’t gone over well at all. If he remembered correctly, there were some group members from other survivalist camps who’d been quite keen in showing Dr. Ledbetter what a cult was really all about.

But that had all gone down seven years or more ago. The groups weren’t necessarily fluid, but seven years is a long time for a group of survivalists not to have some changes in dynamics. People come and go.

He started racking his brain to think about where those threats had come from. Not from people he knew; Xander wasn’t a prepper, or even a survivalist. He didn’t think the world was going to go down in a blaze of glory in the next few years. He recognized the resiliency of the American people, the ease with which governments shifted from party to party, without protests in the streets and journalists being kidnapped and beheaded and bright fires burning down the cities. In another country, the situation could easily grow dire—my God, the things he’d seen in Afghanistan and Iraq would turn any logical person into a survivalist—but in the United States, he firmly believed that even if the absolute worst were to happen, it wouldn’t be as difficult to put the pieces back together as it would elsewhere. Some of the preppers were downright insane, truth be told. His friends were more a group of like-minded men and women who didn’t make preparing for an unknown event the main focus of their world, just shared some handy information in case the shit hit the fan.

Which brought him full circle back to Will Crawford.

Will wasn’t a survivalist, though if pressed, he could easily live off the land for days or weeks. Like Xander, his father had brought him up out of doors, with the forest to guide him. No, while Will could manage quite nicely in an emergency, that’s not where his interests lay. He was, and there just wasn’t a nice word for it, a hacker. An extremely talented hacker

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