Ride The Thunder
Chapter One
January 7: 1600
Lieutenant Nolan Galway decided he was having a bad hair day. Actually, it was a
lot worse than that. As he strode toward the Operations building at Camp Reed,
the noise of helicopters and jets landing and taking off in the late afternoon
hammered at his ears. Tuning out the earsplitting sounds, he tried to focus on
one thing only: getting a new copilot.
As he approached the Ops building which was made of gray concrete and looked
like a rectangular box with a tower sticking up at one end, he saw that it was a
regular Grand Central Station today, just as it had been ever since the killer
earthquake hit on New Year's Eve. From the moment that quake struck, Nolan's
life and everyone else's in the surrounding southern Los Angeles area had been
turned into pure chaos.
He tried to keep his stride steady, but his heart was pounding and his
adrenaline pumping. He wanted a copilot, he decided with new resolve. The OOD - officer
of the day - could ground him without one. If he didn't have a copilot,
Nolan couldn't fly his critical missions and save peop ... read full excerpt from: Ride the Thunder ebook
