Compression pads tightened around her thighs and her abdomen, keeping blood in her head where she needed it. Her Eagle shot over Charon’s surface, a barren expanse of ugly rock and ice. She glanced up and saw the distant Grinder in orbit over Pluto, light from the drones building it winking again...
A dirty car was a fact of life in Iraq, but driving into a canal was avoidable. The car thumped into a pothole, rear wheels spinning before they caught, lurching the car forward. Theeb chuckled as the chassis rocked. “Keep laughing and you can clean it,” Abu Ahmet said. Th...
Standing barely above five feet tall, the high walls of each successive steppe seemed designed to insult her vertically challenged nature. She heard a scrape as Rohen climbed over the wall and saw a blur as his cloaking field adjusted. “Grab my hand,” Rohen said. “You know you’re invisible, right...
He leaped over a pallet of ammunition coming off a Destrier and earned several choice human insults he’d have to cross reference with MacDougall for their proper meaning. He skidded around an idling Mule and found Elias waiting at the end of the ramp, a lump canvas sack at...
He wasn’t sure whether it was the unending vibrations that churned in his stomach and turned his face green or the frighteningly low altitudes pilots chose to fly. Maybe it was the blades whirling over his head like the sword of Damocles. He and Mike weren’t in a helicopte...
He was in a cloud, in his cockpit, but there was no sound. The engine dead, his propeller made a languid rotation before stopping. Manfred removed his goggles and looked around. A gray abyss surrounded him, sunlight diffused evenly through the bleak sky. There was wet gr...
The mansions and high-six-figure homes tucked into the pine forests of the Virginia countryside west of the Beltway are in high demand by the rich and powerful due to their safety, privacy, and comparatively modest Virginia taxes. Explosions that killed a neighbor and wrecked the better part of a...
He pressed fingertips to the door and ripples spread from his touch. “Why are the doors so…big?” Bailey asked. “You think my true form is like yours?” Malal asked. “What do you really look like? The big-ass orb we found on An...