Incident At Palmyra: A Lawson Vampire Mission (The Lawson Vampire Series) by Merz Jon F

Author:Merz, Jon F. [Merz, Jon F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Facing us immediately as we made entry was a Toyota pick-up with a mounted .50 caliber machine gun. The dude manning it opened up as we came through and the heavy rounds turned the cement wall around us into Swiss cheese. Talya dove left and I dove right, hoping to split his attention. I rolled and drew a bead on the gunner and opened up, catching him with five rounds splayed across his midsection. His chest blossomed into a red supernova and he went down, toppling off the backside of the truck.

Talya was picking off targets of opportunity while I tried to fight my way to back her. Two more ISIS fighters ran out of the building in front of us, letting loose with a pair of Kalishnikovs. The telltale sound of AKs being shot was one I never forgot, but I couldn’t think about it just then. While the bullets might not kill me, they could certainly ruin my day and make it hard to back up Talya.

And there was no way I was going to leave all this clean-up to her.

I picked both the ISIS guys off with head shots. It was tougher to kill that way, but a lot of them would be wearing body armor.

I heard shouting now as we each took one side of the courtyard and started moving toward the building. More gunfire echoed around us. I heard screams as men went down under our assault. Blood sprayed the walls, creating a smeared mural of red on the sun-baked cement.

Talya got pinned down by an enemy gunner operating out of a second story window.

“I don’t have a shot,” she shouted to me.

From my vantage point, I could just see the tip of his rifle sticking out of the open window. I settled my sights on it and took a breath even as more rounds impacted all around me. Squeezing the trigger, I felt sure I had him. A moment later, the gunfire from the window stopped and Talya moved up.

We stacked at the entrance to the building and then went in low, each of us cutting off a piece of the pie and clearing it. I took one guy down with a round to his throat while Talya shot two more fighters coming up from the basement.

Someone rolled a grenade in to the kitchen.

I grabbed it and threw it out into the courtyard where it detonated and caught three fighters trying to ambush us from behind. Their bodies flew through the air and crumbled into a heap of blood and guts as they hit the ground.

We moved up.

The next doorway started taking rounds as we approached, causing us to duck down and out of the way. The walls in these homes couldn’t stand up to the volume of bullets being fired and if you thought they offered any cover, you’d quickly find out they didn’t when the bullets punched through the plaster and into your body.

Talya pulled a flashbang and tossed it into the next room.

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