“Let’s get out of here,” recently promoted Major Sean Graber directed his squad. The last ones climbed into the truck bed. The driver started back the way they had come. Two miles down the road he turned right, to the south, onto a roughly graded dirt road. In a few minutes they would stop, dismount, and take their ‘prize’ a few hundred meters to the waiting Blackhawk.
Then the eight Delta troopers and the native CIA agent would be gone, absent from a place they had never officially been.
The message left, however, was very real.
About The Author
Ryne Pearson is the author of several novels, including Cloudburst, October’s Ghost, Capitol Punishment, Simple Simon, Top Ten, The Donzerly Light, All For One, and Confessions. He is also author of the short story collection, Dark and Darker. His novel Simple Simon was made into the film Mercury Rising. As a screenwriter he has worked on numerous films. The film Knowing, based on his original script, was released in 2009 and opened #1 at the box office, going on to gross more than $180 million worldwide.
He lives in California with his wife, children, a Doberman Shepherd and a Beagle Vizsla.