Kratman Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 41
This book is available now so this is the last Snippet. Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 41 She gave a command and the left quarter images dissolved, to be replaced by a close up from a recon skimmer of the latifundia of the former ambassatrix to Santa Josefina. A large circle of poorly dressed people, thin, dirty, and not very healthy looking, watched two better fed and better dressed men writhe on crosses. Long lines of mostly women and children snaked from the latifundia's mansion to the crowd, bringing food and drink...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 40
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 40 ***** Rodriguez could still here the tanks and the ocelots, even after they passed the smoke screen. He watched the last of the platoon disappear into the same screen before plunging into it himself. There weren't very many shots from the main guns, but the coaxial thirty millimeter light cannon and the thirty caliber machine guns kept up a fairly steady chatter. Return fire was…not all that impressive. I don't know what they're thinking, in that base, but the tanks and...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 39
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 39 Chapter Fourteen Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero, (Seize the day, put very little trust in tomorrow). – Horace, Odes Atlantis Base Turning away from the window at which she stood, Bethany asked her leader, Christopher Robin, "Why do the shuttles keep coming down? I've seen the one that brought us come in at least six times." "Probably to try to bullshit the Balboans into thinking that there are a lot more of us than there are, get them to take more time getting ready, expend...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 38
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 38 Finca Mixcoatl There was a dirt road from the finca to the main road that ran north and south. This was the road taken by Pablo and Francsico. It was also the road they'd met at on the way back. From there, having seen little but strange flying machines the occupants of which ignored them, they trotted their horses. There were reasons – very good reasons – that the major domo had chosen Pablo and Francisco to ride out to scout for danger. As he, himself, had been, those two...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 37
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 37 Beach Red, Atlantis Island "Can we get through to my dad, yet?" Ham asked one of the commo rats, a short and dark sergeant. "No promises; I can try." "Do." The old man had set Hamilcar to studying war since he's been a very little boy. However, high tech communications were not among the things he'd been taught in any detail. Instead, all he'd learned was what they could, with a little luck, do. Thus, the various whistles, beeps, crackles, and sound tones meant nothing to...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 36
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 36 Chapter Thirteen De Oppresso Liber -Motto of the US Army's Special Forces. UEPF Spirit of Peace At another station, Xingzhen angrily berated someone down below in her ministry of defense. A long cursing session ended with something that, even in Mandarin, sounded a lot like, "Make sure you do." "Just what the fuck are they doing?" Wallenstein asked. "Some kind of hostage catch and release program?" "It's a new wrinkle," Khan, the husband, admitted. "We've seen them do something...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 35
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 35 What was there neither Jorge, nor the platoon leader, Centurion Vicente, really knew. Certainly it had looked like a ranch, not really different from back home, except there was somewhat less mechanization that one would expect from a similar operation in Balboa. From where he stood, Jorge could watch progress through the windscreen in front of the pilots. He watched, with his rifle slung over his shoulder and both arms raised to allow a grip on a strap hanging from the perforated...
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 34
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath - Snippet 34 Chapter Twelve It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens. --Kyle Kinane BdL ALTA Air Defense Station Number One was just a reinforced spot on the deck next to a hatch up which ammunition could be passed, and from which a normally ground based air defense weapon could command a significant arc of fire. To its right and slightly forward, the...