End Game - FREE PREVIEW (First Six Chapters) by Author

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Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 4

Sand.

And not from a fun day at the beach.

It was in your mouth, your lungs, and your nose.

And possibly in your dreams.

Or here, more likely, in your nightmares.

Gritty, omnipresent, there was no way to avoid it.

Jessica Reel was using a tactical scout sniper periscope to safely get eyes on those she would later try to kill.

Iraq looked like Iraq had ten years ago, at least to her. Buildings were reduced to rubble, people were dying violently. Armies massed and attacked, and terrorists counterattacked, deploying an array of weapons either stolen or bought from countries around the world.

Everything was for shit here, although the politicians tried to put a positive spin on it all. Or blame others after the spin no longer worked.

Right now, the fighting was divided neatly into urban and desert.

Reel wasn’t sure which she preferred. Urban was more complicated and potentially more lethal. One wrong step and a hidden IED takes you away from life in a millisecond. Or someone you thought was an ally confronts you with a C4 suicide pack strapped around his waist. Or a kid hiding a gun under his shirt walks up to you asking for candy, and you have a single moment to decide whether to kill him or not.

In the desert there was nothing between you and them except sand either flat or with some height. And killing from long range could come at any moment. Reel knew this for a fact currently, being a major source of her country’s long-range kills.

She lowered the periscope and made some notes in her DOPE (data of previous engagements) book. In it she had made references and notes on every shot she had fired during this deployment. All the hits and the rare misses.

She learned the most from the misses.

She was part of a fifteen-person team that had only two snipers, of which she was one. She was also the only female in the group. They didn’t care that she could run three miles in under eighteen minutes or that she could do twenty or more dead-hang pull-ups or perform two hundred crunches in four minutes. That was what the Marines required at their sniper school. Years ago Reel had passed every test there and been the first female candidate to complete the course successfully.

They only cared whether she could do her job, which meant pulling the trigger and eliminating someone on the other team whose only goal was to kill Reel and her team.

Still, there had been some grumbling about her from some of the men, mostly the younger ones. Younger ones these days were those barely freed from their teens. After the first two days when Reel had laid down nine out of nine targets, the grumbling had mysteriously vanished. And she was suddenly one of the guys.

Every member of the team was only about one thing: the mission.

The second unspoken goal, but of no less importance to all of them, was survival. None of them wanted to die in the desert.

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