It smelled awful and tasted even worse—almost as bad as the stuff his ex-wife used to make. And it wasn’t even warm. This was a hell of a long way to come to get a lousy cup of coffee, he thought. He drank it nevertheless. Things could have been worse. He could have been sleeping with the sharks after what happened not an hour earlier this wild night. Had it not been for the courage of his men and the toughness their equipment, they’d all be chum by now. Still, it had been a very scary thing. Autry was commander of the X-Battalion, the highly classified offshoot of the famous TF-160 Special Operations unit. Where the 160’s regular air battalions served as high-tech taxis, moving Rangers, SEALs or Delta Force in and out of harm’s way, the X-Battalion was a small special forces army unto itself. Each member specialized not only in his duty pertaining to one of their twelve helicopters—as a pilot, crew chief or gunner—but also in skilled special forces operations on the ground.
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