Code Red by Kyle Mills EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Author: Kyle Mills
- Language: English
- Genre: Terrorism Thrillers
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 3.5 MB
- Price: Free
HINDU KUSH MOUNTAINS
AFGHANISTAN
MITCH Rapp raised a fist before crouching next to a jumble of boulders. The
men behind him would do the same, melting into the darkness and scanning for
threats.
Sometimes, though, those threats were hard to see.
To the north, the Hindu Kush mountain range was outlined against the stars.
A few of its taller peaks were still holding on to snow that shone dully in the
celestial light. They dominated everything in this region, providing mortal
dangers to the local inhabitants as well as the means for their survival. Even the
shallow canyon Rapp found himself in was the result of ancient glaciers that had
made their way across the valley floor.
Water was scarce, but the fact that the ditch to his left was lined with low
grass and scrub hinted at its presence just beneath the surface. Not enough to
sustain anything that most people would recognize as civilization, but sufficient
for a few hearty souls to eke out an isolated existence. And for all their faults, no
one could say that the Afghans weren’t hearty souls.
A broad agricultural plot ahead suggested that they were closing in on their
target and that’s what had prompted the stop. Confirming what he’d seen on the
reconnaissance photos, it appeared to have gone fallow some time ago. A few
stone barriers and terraces were all that was left of what was once probably not
much former glory. Most likely a family poppy operation with a few goats
thrown in. Afghanistan the way it had been before and now was again.
The war was finally over, and it had ended pretty much how Rapp had
always expected. To some extent, America was a ceaseless victim of its own
success. Over the course of a couple hundred years, it had gone from a British
colonial backwater to the most powerful country of the modern era. It had
developed the ultimate secret sauce and was happy to pass out the recipe to
anyone interested. Who wouldn’t want that? When the US military rolled across
your border, it wasn’t to subjugate your country, it was to deliver you from
oppression, provide education and health care, and build infrastructure. To
create a pothole-free path to peace, freedom, and prosperity.
With all those rainbows and unicorns, what could possibly go wrong?
Same answer as always. Everything.
The Americans had never managed to assemble an Afghan government that
wasn’t a combination of the Three Stooges and Dr. Evil. That had created an
environment in which the US military had to take over the administration of the
country’s affairs, while Afghan officials focused on stealing everything that
wasn’t nailed down. Ironically, what had kept Afghanistan on a reasonably even
keel during the occupation wasn’t their confidence in their own government,
but rather their confidence in the American one. Much like the Romans of the
distant past, the US could be more or less counted on to live up to their
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB