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    SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - The Knife Fighter
    SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - The Knife Fighter
    SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - The Knife Fighter
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    SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - The Knife Fighter

    By Eric Meyer

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    An exciting new SEAL Team Bravo – Black Ops short read novella.

    ISIS is facing utter defeat, but a wealthy Saudi supporter has a plan to change their fortunes, by staging the most horrific act or terror in human history – the total destruction of four major cities, Washington DC, London, Paris and Berlin.

    US Navy SEALs Lieutenant Kyle Nolan and John-Wesley Ryder are sent to eliminate the Saudi, but the interception fails, and they are forced into hiding. With no way out, all they can do is hold out until the time is right. A tense waiting game ensues as Ryder relives his torturous and violent upbringing that had made him the stone cold killer that he is today. He must confront his own daemons before facing the living one that wants to wreak havoc across the civilized world. The SEALs need to escape the trap. The odds are stacked against them, and four cities hold their breath as they fight their way through a hurricane of death and deceit.

    This is a thrilling story of US Navy SEAL Team Bravo, and a story of one extraordinary man. Fighting in the Syrian badlands, outnumbered and outgunned. Facing impossible odds, they have to stop the greatest threat to Western civilization since World War II.

    SEAL Team Bravo Black Ops: The Knife Fighter is by the bestselling author of many other Spec Ops stories. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo titles, the Raider series, as well as Echo Six and the Devil's Guard series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSwordworks Books
    Release dateOct 21, 2016
    ISBN9781911092315
    SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - The Knife Fighter
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    Eric Meyer

    An internationally recognized expert on the subjects of HTML, CSS, and Web standards, Eric has been working on the web since late 1993. He is the founder of Complex Spiral Consulting, a co-founder of the microformats movement, and co-founder (with Jeffrey Zeldman) of An Event Apart, the design conference series for people who make web sites. Beginning in early 1994, Eric was the campus Web coordinator for Case Western Reserve University, where he authored a widely acclaimed series of three HTML tutorials and was project lead for the online version of the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History combined with the Dictionary of Cleveland Biography, the first example of an encyclopedia of urban history being fully and freely published on the Web.

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      SEAL Team Bravo - Eric Meyer

      SEAL TEAM BRAVO: BLACK OPS

      THE KNIFE FIGHTER

      By Eric Meyer

      Copyright 2016 by Eric Meyer

      Published by Swordworks Books

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      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products referenced in this work of fiction, which have been used without permission. The publication/use of these trademarks is not authorized, associated with, or sponsored by the trademark owners.

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      Chapter One

      The SEAL lieutenant pointed to the place, which he’d chosen as perfect for the job.

      We’ll set up here. It’ll give us a clear shot down to the track, and we’ll nail him as he comes past.

      The other man nodded, and together they cleared away debris to enlarge the hole and give them enough space. Then they climbed inside, and in the darkness, they were invisible from more than a few meters away. It was a shallow scar in the ground, a natural fissure slashed into the rocky hillside, enough room to hide both men. One of them, the Lieutenant, had a lot on his mind.

      The other man, a U.S. Navy SEAL, was a stone killer, although not a common serial murderer. Petty Officer Third Class John-Wesley Ryder was a problem waiting to happen. A loose cannon, a man for whom killing was in meat and drink, in metaphorical terms, an unexploded bomb. And unexploded bombs had a nasty tendency to go off. Yet he was an incredible fighter, and a magician with a knife, which he’d recently demonstrated. Lieutenant Nolan’s mind drifted back to their arrival in Syria just one hour before, and the fight that had almost finished them before they started.

      * * *

      They HALO jumped from a high flying C-17 Globemaster during the hours of darkness, in two teams of two men each. Master Chief Will Bryce and Vince Merano landed outside Bandarak, a small town that straddled the Turkish Syrian border. Their task was to backstop Nolan and Ryder if things went wrong, and they’d already gone badly wrong. Nolan touched down in the hills of Northern Syria. A second later, a barrage of shots spat out from the darkness, and bullets hissed all around him. He’d landed in the middle of an insurgent camp.

      He dropped flat to return fire, cursing the bad luck that made them happen on the camp. His weapon, a Barrett sniper rifle, was perfect for taking out targets at long-range, but slow and cumbersome for close-range night actions such as this one. He found the first target, all beard and spitting hatred, and squeezed the trigger. The man went down, but there were many more, a nest of howling vipers. They came at him in a shambling run, screaming their message of death. ‘Allahu Akbar!’ God is great!

      He pulled the trigger repeatedly, and men went down, bowled over by the heavy .50 caliber bullets, but there were too many, and in seconds the magazine was empty. The enemy was meters away, bullets stabbing at the ground and whistling past his helmet. With no time to reload, he snatched out his Sig Sauer P226 and took aim. Fired at the leading hostile, and the man went down with a bullet in his belly. Five more enemy fighters were still coming at him, and he took down three more. Then the last two were on him.

      Nolan catapulted to his feet to meet them. Fired again, missed, fired, and another went down, but the last man fired, and 7.62mm bullets smacked into his combat vest. Another clanged into his Kevlar helmet to make his head spin, and he dove away as the shooter aimed at his face and missed. As he fell, bullets struck the frame of his pistol, and it skidded away into the darkness. He was alone and unarmed. The surviving insurgent approached, stood over him, and put the muzzle of an AK against his neck.

      He tensed, ready to jump away at the last moment when a dark shape dropped out of the night sky, and John-Wesley’s body slammed into the man. He grunted with shock and pain, but recovered fast and leapt back to his feet, still holding his rifle and about to take the shot. Nolan was still searching for his handgun when a huge, heavy blade came out of nowhere and impaled itself in the man’s heart. He dropped, and this time he didn’t get up. John-Wesley reached down to retrieve his combat knife, wiped off the blood on the man’s robe, and helped Nolan to his feet.

      You okay, Boss? He was calm, expressionless. As if he’d shaken the man’s hand, instead of burying a knife in his chest.

      Nolan found the Sig and reloaded. I’m good, yeah. Thanks.

      No sweat. Are we blown? I mean were those Arabs something to do with the target?

      The target had a name, Prince Abdullah. The Saudi Prince of Terror. He shook his head. I think we’re good. We’re still several klicks from the ambush point, so I doubt there’s any connection with this isolated band of fighters. It was just bad luck we happened on them. We’ll clear up the mess and carry on.

      They buried several stinking bedrolls in the sand, wrapped around the bodies and weapons. Two donkeys waited patiently, tethered to ground stakes. Ryder released them and sent them on their way. Satisfied the site was sterile, they moved off.

      * * *

      Nolan and Ryder waited out the rest of the night. Dawn arrived, and the temperature began to soar. It was a long, hot, day until darkness cloaked the hills. The temperature plummeted to zero.

      He’s late, Ryder murmured as the evening dragged on, Could be he’s not coming.

      He’ll come.

      He didn’t say anything for several seconds. Then, I could go out there, see if there’s any sign he’s taken another route.

      No. Any movement, and it could spook him if he’s around.

      A pause. I was just thinking. It’s damn cold. We could move around a bit, loosen up. He won’t see anything.

      We stay. Be thankful it’s not raining.

      Sure.

      Nolan’s mind chewed over the problem of John-Wesley Ryder. When he was good, like when he’d killed that insurgent, he was the best. As a rule, he followed orders, killed men who were the enemies of the United States. Yet twice lately, he’d gone ‘off script’ and other men had died. Bad men, usually, but killing them diverted attention from the main mission, putting the lives of other SEALs in danger. He’d already decided next time it happened would be the last. He’d be out, and before they left, he’d taken him to one side and spelled out that simple fact. ‘Follow orders, or you’re out.’

      There was no room for mistakes. The operation was critical. The target, Prince Khalid bin-Abdullah, had been spreading his oil wealth in altogether the wrong direction. His trade was banking, and his most important client ISIS. For whom he provided a major source of their funding from sympathetic Saudis. Lately, he’d expanded the global reach of his operation to recruit teenagers, young boys and girls to detonate lethal suicide vests amongst crowds of people. In return, they would embark on a journey to Paradise, and the families they left behind would receive a large reward. There were plenty of takers, and the plague of death was about to spread across Europe and into the U.S.

      Frustrated at the mounting ISIS losses, Abdullah planned a series of spectacular attacks to punish Western governments. The targets were Washington D.C, London, Paris, and Berlin. In each city ‘martyrs’ would explode their lethal cargoes next to strategic targets. The White House and Capitol Hill. In London, Downing Street, and the Houses of Parliament. In Paris, the seat of government, the Quai d’Orsay. In Berlin, the center of government, the Bundestag.

      A devastating blow at the heart of Western civilization, and so far, they had almost no leads on the bombers. Signal intercepts had spelled-out the lethal plot, without giving away the identities of the actual bombers. They were stymied, until the money transfer that gave them their first lead.

      Prince Abdullah was the CEO of a so-called charity, the Islamic Center for Peace Studies, through which he funneled money to

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