Stealth Attack by John Gilstrap

Author:John Gilstrap [Gilstrap, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, General, Military, Political
ISBN: 9780786045549
Google: ctgwEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08KL43YZZ
Goodreads: 55655867
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2021-06-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Jonathan and Boxers had spent the bulk of their Army careers as operators for the First Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, or the Unit, engaged in missions that never officially happened. Before the 9/11 attacks changed everything, many of those missions took them to Mexico and Central America to harass drug lords and bring justice for people who so rarely saw it from their own leaders.

For decades, the state of Sinaloa had been the epicenter of drug smuggling, providing much of the infrastructure necessary to transport raw product produced in Central America up to the southern border of the United States, and from there to be distributed across the Fruited Plain.

Over the years, that mission had transitioned from the military to the Drug Enforcement Administration, where enforcement and interdiction was uneven at best and entirely dependent upon whose butt sat in the big chair in the Oval Office. Under the Darmond administration, no one seemed to care all that much about porous borders and the streams of poison and damaged children that flowed into American commerce.

Still, the infrastructure that supported the days of strong enforcement survived, ready for the inevitable return to sanity.

Boxers had a good memory for individual elements of that infrastructure, and a phone call to Papa Smurf, an old friend who still toiled in the shadows, confirmed that a runway cut into the forest a long time ago was still functional and was capable—though barely—of handling the needs of their Hawker 500.

They approached in the dark, flying as low and as slow as possible to mimic the flight characteristics of the much smaller airplane that approach radars had been fooled into believing they were. Papa Smurf had marked the runway for them with infrared strobes, allowing them to land without lights, using night vision instead.

The old barracks building was still there, though it provided shelter for every species of animal other than human. Jonathan was not interested in exploring that.

Papa Smurf had even delivered on his promise to have a locally registered Dodge Durango waiting for them.

Favors in this part of the world always came with a hefty price tag—made even heftier by the shortened time frame—but with cash came reliable results.

On Jonathan’s order, they stayed in the aircraft until after sunrise so that they could all get some sleep. Besides, transporting all the gear from the Hawker to the Durango in the middle of the night, using only night vision, was an invitation for trouble.

“How often do you DEA boys come this far south to play?” Jonathan asked as they were loading toys into the Durango.

“Not as often as we should,” Dawkins said. “Not as often as we’re going to, once the big boss is voted out of the Oval. Maybe even sooner, if word of the tourist abductions leaks out.”

In recent months, even the high-dollar tourist attractions had become hotbeds for criminal activity. For Americans in particular, kidnapping was the most significant risk, but those abductions were often accompanied by other violence. When victims resisted, they died at an alarming rate.

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