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open fire with rifles and small arms. The guys on the
motorcycles that are able to avoid the strips try to turn around and leave, but
the other truck full of Kings prevents their retreat.
Eight Harbingers
enter the kill zone and a scant four minutes later, it’s all over. Not a single
King dies or is even hit. The lead truck in the ambush takes so many hits it’s
impossible to drive. Quickly, the Kings move the drugs from the Harbingers’
trucks to their remaining truck. It takes five more minutes to get everything
loaded and then in a cloud of cordite and dust, the Kings take off with the
score of the year.
Chapter Eleven
Mexican Standoff Suicide Kings Style
Things have gone
from very bad to a whole lot worse for Luke and Carter. The Harbingers are
crazy enough to pursue them. Judging by the lights, it seems to Luke there are
about half a dozen Harbingers climbing down into the quarry. Luke’s biggest
fear is that the bottom will be filled with water. The last thing he wants is
to fall into a deep pool with sheer rock sides all around. They’d both drown
before it got light enough for their pursuers to shoot at them.
Luke takes a deep
breath in an effort to calm down. He cannot remember ever being this scared,
not even in Afghanistan. During a fight, things happen so fast there’s no time
to be afraid. Being pinned down in a rocky pit with no light and being pursued
by guys with guns and lights is a hell of a way to go out of this world,
especially after all the shit he's seen.
Luke glances over
at his friend. They have been through a lot together. Being here with Carter
reminds him of Afghanistan when he and his buddies were pinned down by a large
group of Al Qaeda insurgents in Kandahar. The insurgents had played cat and
mouse with them for almost eight hours before he and his buddies were able to
escape and meet back up with their platoon.
Luke turns to
Carter, motions him to follow and the two men start picking their way deeper
down into the rock quarry. Every once in a while, the Harbingers just start
shooting in an effort to engage them but the two men know better than to play
that game. The minute they return fire, the Harbingers will get a line on them
and it’ll be over.
Luke and Carter
spend the next terrifying 90 minutes getting cut, bruised, and shot at. The
biggest enemy is their own minds. It is one thing to be in a quick fire fight
when you have no time to think, but quite another to be stalked and hunted for
several hours.
Luke crawls out from
his hiding place after the Harbingers finish another of their shooting sprees.
The moment he straightens, a large figure suddenly steps out of nowhere and
opens fire. Amazingly, not a single bullet finds its target, but Luke is
completely blinded by the bright muzzle flashes. As he stumbles back away from
the gunman, reaching for his own gun, he falls on his ass. Luke finally gets
his gun free of his pants and fires off four quick rounds, striking his target
in the chest. The big man goes down in a heap. Now everyone knows where they
are. Suddenly, five Harbingers are lighting up the quarry with a surprising
amount of fire power.
No point in
sneaking around now , Luke
realizes. They know exactly where we are .
He turns to his
friend and shouts, “Just run, Carter; just fucking run!”
Luke and Carter
take off in opposite directions, shooting back wildly. This is their last
desperate attempt to get out of the quarry and away from the Harbingers. Luke’s
heart is exploding in his chest, and he expects to feel the hot bite of lead
any second now. It seems like everywhere he turns, there are either muzzle
flashes or flashlights or both. He can’t shoot anymore for fear of hitting his
friend. Their only hope is for the Harbingers to run out of bullets or butcher
one another by mistake.
Either way it’s a
long shot.
The beam of one of
the Harbingers’ flashlights saves Luke from charging headlong into a huge
boulder more than once. At some
motorcycles that are able to avoid the strips try to turn around and leave, but
the other truck full of Kings prevents their retreat.
Eight Harbingers
enter the kill zone and a scant four minutes later, it’s all over. Not a single
King dies or is even hit. The lead truck in the ambush takes so many hits it’s
impossible to drive. Quickly, the Kings move the drugs from the Harbingers’
trucks to their remaining truck. It takes five more minutes to get everything
loaded and then in a cloud of cordite and dust, the Kings take off with the
score of the year.
Chapter Eleven
Mexican Standoff Suicide Kings Style
Things have gone
from very bad to a whole lot worse for Luke and Carter. The Harbingers are
crazy enough to pursue them. Judging by the lights, it seems to Luke there are
about half a dozen Harbingers climbing down into the quarry. Luke’s biggest
fear is that the bottom will be filled with water. The last thing he wants is
to fall into a deep pool with sheer rock sides all around. They’d both drown
before it got light enough for their pursuers to shoot at them.
Luke takes a deep
breath in an effort to calm down. He cannot remember ever being this scared,
not even in Afghanistan. During a fight, things happen so fast there’s no time
to be afraid. Being pinned down in a rocky pit with no light and being pursued
by guys with guns and lights is a hell of a way to go out of this world,
especially after all the shit he's seen.
Luke glances over
at his friend. They have been through a lot together. Being here with Carter
reminds him of Afghanistan when he and his buddies were pinned down by a large
group of Al Qaeda insurgents in Kandahar. The insurgents had played cat and
mouse with them for almost eight hours before he and his buddies were able to
escape and meet back up with their platoon.
Luke turns to
Carter, motions him to follow and the two men start picking their way deeper
down into the rock quarry. Every once in a while, the Harbingers just start
shooting in an effort to engage them but the two men know better than to play
that game. The minute they return fire, the Harbingers will get a line on them
and it’ll be over.
Luke and Carter
spend the next terrifying 90 minutes getting cut, bruised, and shot at. The
biggest enemy is their own minds. It is one thing to be in a quick fire fight
when you have no time to think, but quite another to be stalked and hunted for
several hours.
Luke crawls out from
his hiding place after the Harbingers finish another of their shooting sprees.
The moment he straightens, a large figure suddenly steps out of nowhere and
opens fire. Amazingly, not a single bullet finds its target, but Luke is
completely blinded by the bright muzzle flashes. As he stumbles back away from
the gunman, reaching for his own gun, he falls on his ass. Luke finally gets
his gun free of his pants and fires off four quick rounds, striking his target
in the chest. The big man goes down in a heap. Now everyone knows where they
are. Suddenly, five Harbingers are lighting up the quarry with a surprising
amount of fire power.
No point in
sneaking around now , Luke
realizes. They know exactly where we are .
He turns to his
friend and shouts, “Just run, Carter; just fucking run!”
Luke and Carter
take off in opposite directions, shooting back wildly. This is their last
desperate attempt to get out of the quarry and away from the Harbingers. Luke’s
heart is exploding in his chest, and he expects to feel the hot bite of lead
any second now. It seems like everywhere he turns, there are either muzzle
flashes or flashlights or both. He can’t shoot anymore for fear of hitting his
friend. Their only hope is for the Harbingers to run out of bullets or butcher
one another by mistake.
Either way it’s a
long shot.
The beam of one of
the Harbingers’ flashlights saves Luke from charging headlong into a huge
boulder more than once. At some
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