Starstrike: Operation Orion by Kevin; Niles Dockery

Author:Kevin; Niles Dockery
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: High Tech, Science Fiction, General, United States, Space Warfare, Human-Alien Encounters, Adventure, Thrillers, fiction
ISBN: 9780345490421
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, proof and convertion from html to epub by DC-SLZ
Published: 2012-01-14T21:53:05+00:00

“It’s time,” Falco whispered to himself. Like the infiltrators making their way into the enemy installation, the two men on the ridge had their comlinks switched off, but each had been keeping an eye on the clock. Both SEALS lay prone in the snow, and the wind had dusted them over so much that they were virtually invisible to anyone more than a few meters away.

Of course, that was all about to change. Falco glanced at the big man next to him and saw that LaRue already was resting Baby’s barrel on the fold-down bipod, taking aim at the metal hatch. The sniper cradled his squirrel gun and removed the protective covers from the scope. He scanned the rest of the valley, leaving his partner to concentrate on the initial target.

The battery pack powering the rail gun was hot, and the weapon was ready. LaRue had braced the rail gun along the trough he had cleared through the snow, and he drew a bead on the steel door in the rock outcrop near the center of the circular valley. He pulled the trigger, and the counterblast erupted from the back of the weapon in a fiery burst even as the copper-jacketed slug shot unerringly through the air to impact against the steel hatch.

To the two men, the only visible effect was the bright red glow of the puncture hole that appeared almost directly in the middle of the hatch. They knew that bits of superheated metal had sprayed immediately, almost like a splash of liquid, through whatever occupied the space on the other side of the door. The copper coating would have sheathed off the depleted-uranium core as it penetrated the metal door, and the whole of the round’s kinetic energy might have liquefied it into a lethal spurt, a spray of deadly heat spreading in a searing shower through whatever was on the other side of the door. Those molten projectiles would slice flesh and bone without even slowing down and would inflict a lot of damage on metal or stone objects as well.

For long, dragging seconds they waited. LaRue kept his eyes on the hatch while Falco scanned the crater, even checking over his shoulder to see if anything was moving in reaction to the violent assault. Conscious of the LT’s order to fire a second round after a minute, G-Man prepped the next slug simply by cocking the trigger and steadied his aim for the next shot.

It was Falco who spotted the movement. “Heads up, G-Man,” he snapped. “Ten o’clock.”

Some five hundred meters away, an object was rising from the snow, a pillar of dark metal that had been concealed in the ground. Narrow slits were visible in the sides, and one of those slits sparked and flamed as a barrage of high-velocity rounds spit toward the crest where the two SEALS were concealed. Both men ducked instinctively, watching as the burst chewed through the snow along the stony ridge. “Whattya know?” G-Man said. “It’s a fucking robot gun.

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