Empire of the Dragon_Event Group Thriller by David L. Golemon

Author:David L. Golemon [Golemon, David L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692132210
Amazon: 069213221X
Publisher: Quoth Publications
Published: 2018-06-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

One Hundred Sixty-Eight Miles

East of the Altai Mountains

To keep out of the sixty mile an hour slipstream headwind that slowed its progress, the United States Air Force C-130 Hercules lowered its altitude to only eleven thousand feet. The Mongolian government sanctioned flight from Hanoi had been a bumpy one, but luckily for the twenty-two Air Force commandos, and for Master Chief Jenks and Carl Everett, the flight crew had just returned from a tour in Afghanistan, where flying a Hercules was one of the more dangerous professions in the world, as blasts of winds across a runway were the least of your problems, as heat seeking missiles were quite often chasing you through those winds.

Jenks was sleeping and, sitting next to him, Carl was in deep thought about the circumstances that led him to be flying over Mongolia. If what Henri Farbeaux said was true, the problems the Event Group faced were far beyond the pale of the attempted murder of himself by a man he thought he knew above all others. However, if true, what were the plans of this Siberian group as far as the field team in Mongolia was concerned? Was it Jack, or an imposter that tried to kill him? Everett suspected the man responsible for him ending up in the Mekong River was on a mission to discredit operations in the Gobi or possibly just a kill raid against Department 5656 personnel. He was so deep in thought, he failed to hear the signal tone from the Europa link left to them by Will Mendenhall at the train platform in Hanoi before he left for home.

“Hey, are Toads deaf?” Jenks asked without raising the Air Force baseball cap from his eyes.

“What?” Carl asked as he looked around and saw nothing but dozing commandos.

“The nerd brigade at Nellis is trying to get a hold of you.”

Carl looked to his right and saw the small flashing light on the larger than normal laptop on the canvas seat next to him. He reached for it as a few of the Air Force Special Operations men roused as the Hercules climbed back up to two thousand feet more of altitude after discovering a patch of smoother air. He waited until the men turned their attention to waking, and then as they began opening the box lunches the Air Force supplied the team for their long flight. He finally picked up the link much to Jenks’ liking. The Master Chief looked none too concerned about the reasons for the call from Group. Everett opened the top and entered his coded response and scramble. A face soon appeared, and it wasn’t who he had expected.

“Virginia.”

“Captain, its good to see you active once more.”

“Okay, it’s not Niles yelling at me for disobeying orders, so it’s the old sugar before the bad tasting medicine thing, huh?”

“I’ll take that as a compliment if the meaning being I am the sugar aspect to your query.”

“Always.”

“Well, to a point you’re right. Niles is not happy with your decision to risk the flight to Mongolia.

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