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By Frederick Lee Brooke
The pickup lights cut a path through the darkness as they shared a bag of tortilla chips. All at once, Matt’s eyes picked up a familiar form in the grass by the side of the road. He pulled over fifty yards ahead.
“What’re you doing?” Benjy asked.
Matt got out without answering, and walked back up the road. Benjy followed. They found a small doe sprawled in the ditch, eyes staring.
“Is it dead?” Benjy asked.
“Dead and delicious,” Matt said. “Can you lift her?”
His stepbrother studied the deer, trying to figure how to pick it up. He bent down, then stood again.
“You sure it’s dead?”
Matt prodded the deer with his boot. “Even if she weren’t, they don’t bite.”
Benjy worked his left arm under the animal’s neck. With his right hand he grabbed one of the hind legs, just below the knee. When he stood up, he managed to get about half the deer off the ground before collapsing.
“She’s too heavy. I can’t.”
“Let’s do it together,” Matt said. He picked up the neck and the front legs while Benjy lifted the hindquarters. Matt could’ve thrown the animal in the back of the truck himself, but getting Benjy to help somehow seemed right. Although he was tall for fourteen, Benjy’s arms and legs were thin as twigs.
Off in the distance, another car was coming. They jumped in quickly, and Matt hit the gas. After a brief stretch at high speed, they entered a town and had to slow down. The car tailing them had caught up, an old red Chrysler. The other driver rode him close, his high beam lighting up the truck interior. Matt looked away from his mirror, but the lights blinded him just the same. People shot each other over less.
“Want me to check him out?” Benjy asked.
“You’ve got your own Viper?”
“I brought two Vipers and two Tornados,” Benjy said. He rolled down his window and released a small quadcopter. Then he studied his Jetlink.
“What’s a fourteen-year-old doing with four drones?”
“These are just the ones I decided to bring.”
Matt looked at his stepbrother, unbelieving. Where had Benjy been hiding all these drones? He himself, like most people, owned one all-purpose Viper. “Well, what about those guys back there?”
“Two men. Skinheads. Maybe locals, picking a fight.”
They had reached the end of town, and the speed limit was back up to 50 mph. Matt gradually increased to 40 mph as the Chrysler rode up his tail. The road was deserted.
“Why doesn’t he pass?” Benjy asked.
Matt rolled down his window. “Get ready to take the wheel.”
“What? I can’t drive.”
On the next straightaway, the Chrysler made its move and pulled alongside. Matt met the gaze of the man in the passenger seat, whose shaved head gleamed in the ambient light.
“Pull over to the side. Pull over now.”
Matt had the slingshot ready while Benjy guided the truck with one hand on the wheel. In a split second, he could kill the man, whose impassive face was less than six feet away.
Something made him decide not to shoot. Maybe there’d been enough killing for one night. Maybe it was the fact that the man didn’t show a weapon. Maybe he was just tired. He retook the wheel, braked, signaled, and pulled over.
The skinheads got out and walked back to the truck, two men in black leather. Still no weapons. He got out to meet them.
About Saving Raine
A country torn apart by greed, corruption, and chaos.
A boy sent on a mission that could kill him.
A girl who’s in grave danger…and doesn’t have a clue.
Can Matt beat the odds stacked against him and outrun the drones raining down on his head in time to save his woman–and America?
Praise for SAVING RAINE…
“…skilled, full of action, truth, possibilities, and drama.” (Carol Keen, Amazon Reviewer)
“…an adrenaline-soaked adventure that kept this reader’s attention from beginning to end.” (Long and Short Reviews)
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About the author
Frederick Lee Brooke launched the Drone Wars Series in 2013 with Saving Raine, and the sequel, Inferno, followed in 2014. The third and last book in the series, The Drone Wars, released in June, 2015 wraps up the short, catastrophic period in which Matt Carney first learned he had a twin brother.
A resident of Switzerland since 1991, Frederick Lee Brooke is also the author of the Annie Ogden Mystery Series. He has worked as a teacher, language school manager and school owner. He makes frequent trips to the United States to visit friends and family. Visit Fred on Facebook or Twitter.
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