Stan Lee’s The Devil’s Quintet: The Shadow Society by Jay Bonansinga EPUB & PDF
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The C-5 Galaxy aircraft pitches and bumps over the jagged air currents above
the vast, desolate surface of the Black Sea. The cabin smells of body odor
and burning circuits as the leader of a small group of passengers braces
himself against the jump seat, checking the luminous dial of his tactical
chronograph. It’s now pushing 10:00 P.M. Moscow standard time.
Close enough for government work, the senior operative thinks as he
surveys the dead grey slipstream outside the portholes. As far as the night sky
is concerned, he could be anywhere. On a business trip over the Pacific.
Approaching Hawaii for a long vacation. Hell, the aircraft could be flying
over the little hardscrabble hamlet where he grew up. But his true destination
—known only to the other four members of his team, a pair of pilots, and a
couple of suits in the Defense Intelligence Agency—is a territory in the
Tartarus Mountains between Armenia and Azerbaijan that currently holds the
distinction of being the Most Dangerous Place in the World. Over yonder at
the edge of nothing, the senior operative muses silently. He has a million of
these colorful cornpone expressions that he picked up back in his childhood
birthplace of Ducktown, Texas. (A QUACKING GOOD PLACE, the man
remembers the town sign assuring passersby back in the day.)
A lean and weathered former jock clad in desert camo and body armor, the
senior operative is somewhere in his fourth decade, his jarhead buzz cut just
starting to streak with grey. Each and every deep line and crease around his
icy blue eyes has been earned the hard way. In the field of battle. Under fire.
Against the clock. Balancing life and death on a high-tension wire.
Many years earlier, back at Langley, the code name Spur had been
conferred upon him during Specialist Training Camp. In those days
intelligence operatives didn’t have a choice in the selection of their code
names. But once in a while the instructors chose handles apropos of a
particular subject’s skill set. The senior operative had a knack for motivating
others, as in “Put the Spur to ’em, Paul!” The truth is, though, over the years
the code name became the bane of his existence, an embarrassment, but that’s
how code names work. They stick to you like a blemish that will never fade.
The man known as Spur feels the center of gravity shifting in the cabin as
the aircraft banks over the craggy cliffs of the Balkan coastline. They begin to
descend through an invisible chute of Georgian airspace, a sense of levitation
tugging at the man’s gut. Military transports approach Camp H. S. Sherman
near the northern border at a tremendous velocity for planes of this size—
much faster than commercial airliners—due to the constant reports of
antiaircraft guns along the Gehenna Highway.
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