Rogue Predator (6 page)
Authors: Craig Simpson
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
dog tags
identity tags worn by US military personnel
evac
short for evacuation
IEDs
Improvised Explosive Devices, home-made bombs triggered by remote control
intel
short for intelligence
infidels
refers to someone without faith, in this case, a non-Muslim
ISAF
International Security Assistance Force — the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan
muezzin
person at a mosque who leads the call to prayer
mujahedin
different groups of Afghan fighters opposed to Russian rule
opium
product created from poppies and used in the production of heroin
More explosive action in Book 2, when a US doctor is kidnapped by Masud and is held hostage.
Major Nathan Connor and his Delta Force team are assigned to bring her back – alive.
Connor’s instinct kicked in. The boy was telling him that there was another bomb inside the house. They were in the middle of a Taliban trap!
“Prepare for incoming,” he warned his team. Had the convoy reached the site office and the bombs been detonated, there’d be no evac route — no way out.
Gunshots cracked from the hillside above. Danny let out a cry and sank to his knees. Connor grabbed Danny’s webbing and began to drag him back towards the GMV. Jacko covered their backs, laying down a blanket of covering fire.
“Danny is hit,” Connor announced into his helmet mic. “Ben, there’s a second bomb in that house I’ve just passed. Hit it with everything you’ve got. Sparks, there are snipers up on the hillside. Call in our Hawks to take them out.”
“Roger that, sir.”
Continued in: Task Force Delta — hostage Crisis
