Pointblank by Sherman David && Cragg Dan

Author:Sherman, David && Cragg, Dan [Sherman, David & Cragg, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science-Fiction
ISBN: 9780345460592
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2006-08-29T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

TWENTY

Three Hundred Kilometers Northwest of the Bataan Peninsula, Ravenette After the sniper strike on the Kampeer Aanval staging area, first sniper team and second squad went out looking for more targets of opportunity. They went south on foot fifteen kilometers before donning their puddle jumpers and moving in a search pattern. Once they were in the air, it didn’t take long for them to find a highway that showed evidence of military traffic. This time, they were on a hunter-killer mission, not a sniper mission, so Sergeant Kare was in command; Sergeant Gossner readily agreed that he and Lance Corporal Dwan were along as extra blasters.

“I’m not carrying a blaster!” Dwan objected. Her meaning was clear; she was a sniper, she wanted a sniper mission.

“All right then, we’re along as extra firepower,” Gossner growled right back at her.

“Tell you what,” Kare jumped in before Dwan could say more. “I’ll let you take the first shot when we spring an ambush. You snipe the lead driver.”

“Driver! I’m a sniper, I’m carrying a maser, I don’t waste my shots on drivers!”

“We need the lead driver taken out first to block the road and jam up any vehicles behind it,” Kare said reasonably.

“Do you have any idea how hard it is to hold aim on a target moving that fast?” she objected. Kare nodded. “Yes, I do,” he said, looking directly into her eyes. “And I believe there’s only one sniper in all of Human Space good enough with a maser to be able to hold aim on a target driving a military vehicle.”

Dwan pursed her lips, glaring at him. He was playing on her pride, using it to manipulate her—and she knew it. But her pride insisted that she accept the challenge. file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/harry/Bureaublad...02]%20-%20Point%20Blank/Sher_034549363X_oeb_c20_r1.htm (1 of 8)26-12-2006 4:56:03

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“If there’s an officer next to the driver, can I shoot him?”

“After you shoot the driver, you can shoot the officer.”

Dwan nodded curtly; an officer was a more proper target for a sniper than a lousy driver—even if she had to shoot the driver first.

“But you don’t fire until I tell you to.”

“WHAT!”

Gossner clamped a hand on Dwan’s shoulder. “Sergeant Kare’s in command here, Lance Corporal,” he said firmly. “We do it his way.”

Dwan glared at Gossner’s offending hand, then turned her glare to his eyes. He didn’t flinch. She began to think maybe she’d made a mistake when she’d jumped his bones after making her kill on Atlas—

Gossner was getting entirely too familiar with her person and had lost some of his wariness of her. But she had to agree, no matter how much she disliked the idea, that Sergeant Kare was in command, so she’d do it his way.

Dammit.

Overlooking a Bend in a Highway, Three Hundred Kilometers Northwest of Bataan Sergeant Kare had selected an ambush site with the skill of someone who had set many small-unit ambushes. While looking for the ideal spot, he’d let two single lorries and a five-vehicle convoy pass unmolested. That, of course, infuriated Lance Corporal Bella Dwan; she didn’t have the same degree of patience in an ambush that she did as a sniper.

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