Apocalypse Burning
Chapter One
United States 75th Army Rangers Temporary Post
Sanliurfa, Turkey
Local Time 1422 Hours
"Help me! Please, God, send someone to help me! My wife! They
took my wife!"
The agonized and fearful cry jerked First Sergeant Samuel Adams
"Goose" Gander from the mental paralysis that had gripped him for
the last several moments. The early afternoon sun blazed over
Sanliurfa, beating down on the city with an unrelenting heat. Shimmering
blasts of ovenlike air radiated from the shattered buildings
surrounding him and the hard-baked asphalt beneath his boots.
Sweat soaked Goose's BDUs and ran down his face from beneath his
Kevlar helmet. The helmet shaded his eyes and would deflect most
bullets and shrapnel, but right now it felt like a stewpot slowly parboiling
his brain. Sand stuck to his chin and burned his eyes. The coppery
taste of his own blood still lined his mouth, a souvenir from the
fight he'd just had with Icarus.
Goose still stood in the alley where minutes ago he had first
fought, then talked with the man he knew only as Icarus, the rogue
CIA agent that Special Agent- ... read full excerpt from: Apocalypse Burning (Left Behind - Apocalypse) ebook
