The Failed Coward by Philbrook Chris

Author:Philbrook, Chris [Philbrook, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-01-28T05:00:00+00:00

-Adrian

The Siege of Mildenhall

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Fitz asked Kevin from the back seat as their lead humvee rounded a tight corner in the British city of Manchester. Out of habit and an excess of adrenaline the older mercenary flicked the safety of his M4 SOPMOD back and forth from semi to full auto. Putting it on safe at this point seemed unreasonably dangerous to him, after all, the city was overrun with the dead.

From the front passenger seat of the humvee Kevin glared out the windows at the brown brick buildings and parked cars they sped by, just a foot or two from the windows in the essentially stolen military truck. Their driver Kyle drove evasively around a small crashed compact in the road. Kevin smirked as he tried to think of a clever answer to Fitz’s smartass question.

The front fender of the heavy vehicle clipped a shambling zombie on the side of the street and sent it careening off the wall of an apartment building. Kevin heard a faint crunch fading away as the thing's bones broke on impact. Finally his brain came out of neutral, and he responded to his friend, “Well Fitzy. I look at it this way; we’ve certainly had better ideas. I mean that harem of prostitutes Alan brought back to our suite in Phuket was a pretty shitty idea, and I think that was a lot better an idea than this. Look at the bright side gentlemen; we are not likely to get crotch rot on this op. Unlike in Thailand.”

All four men in the speeding humvee laughed. Kyle, Kevin’s driver was a young ex Army airborne soldier, and Quan in the backseat with Fitz was former Vietnamese army, and had years in EOD work. The four men were all that remained of Kevin’s original nine man protection team from June in Jerusalem.

Kevin and his squad had been tasked to protect a high ranking Senator in Israel the day the undead reared their gory, ugly heads. That was June 23rd actually, about 40 days prior. They’d evacuated Jerusalem riki-tik and fled on a US Department of State bird for London, and what they thought would be relative safety. One of his men had died from what appeared to be a superficial bite wound on the plane, and as soon as they landed at Heathrow, he’d returned to “life” and bitten another of Kevin’s men. In the end, the team leader had to put bullets in both of their heads. The apocalypse had been hard on his men, demoralizing and painful beyond all imagination. Today they were trying to do the right thing, and reclaim their own. Hopefully they'd be alive.

Before they had boarded the plane and left Jerusalem Kevin had lost one of his close operator friends, Alan, a British national. Alan had missed a video call with his wife and child in Manchester England that day, and Kevin vowed he’d see to it that Alan’s six year old daughter Shelby, and Alan’s wife Becky were taken care of.

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