Book Excerpt
Dark, confined, the housing
container held the Arrowhead team’s doom. Inside, with
visibility down to inches, their rifles were useless.
Blades
scraped from their sheaths and glinted in the faintest slivers of light that
filtered in from the street. Cold, cruel eyes flashed as well as teeth, bared
in a vicious grin, as Duwende bolted out of the shadows.
The
lead Arrowhead contractor choked on his own gasp as his throat opened in a
gaping gash, his head lolling back as the muscle tendons supporting it were
cleaved in two. He had been swinging his rifle to bear on the shadowy figure
lunging at him but instead found Duwende’s blade cutting along the
forearm of his firing hand, severing the tendons and causing the contractor’s grip to falter. He died on
his feet, a torrent of blood streaming down the front of his vest, his brain
still zapping the signal to fire to severed nerves that would never receive the
message.
Duwende
breezed past the first contractor still on his feet, ducking into a low crouch
under the second’s sweeping rifle muzzle. He
came in low and slashed upwards, carving deep wounds into the man’s inner thighs, the wide
incisions crisscrossing over his groin. The massive arteries in his legs opened
up, blood hitting the floor with a loud, hard splat.
On
to the next, Duwende swooped in. The man’s armor protected his upper
body, the sides of his neck, but that meant nothing. Lunging into the Arrowhead
contractor, Duwende knocked him off balance. Blades twisted in his hands before
he stabbed them upwards, into the Arrowhead contractor’s armpits, then guided their
cutting edges down the length of his arms to the elbows.
More
hot blood gushed from twin geysers, splashing off Duwende’s forearms and across the
floor.
About the Book
Title: You Think This is a Game?
Author: Bernard Maestas
Genre: Young Adult Thriller
Wisecracking smartasses Ted and Alex are
an elite army of two, fighting for fortune under the banner of their
private military corporation Reagan Kirwan International. MIT-trained
computer hacker and engineer Ted is the brains. Freerunning ex-French
Foreign Legion commando is the brawn. With their unique combination of
skills, they are in high demand on the blurry and ever-changing modern
battlefields.
When oil is struck in a Somalian
province, two titans of the energy industry collide head-on over the
lucrative rights. The result is a war which rages both in the boardrooms
and on the already bloody sands.
Hired for the simple task of tipping the
scales, Ted and Alex’s mission takes a dangerous and deadly turn. They
learn they are not the only trump cards in play and, this time, they may
be on the wrong side. Facing the most dangerous of adversaries,
constant perils, and treacherous corporate politics, they must stand
together if they want to survive – and, more importantly, collect their
paychecks.
Because war is a two-player co-op and all they have is each other.
Author Bio
Bernard
Maestas lives in paradise. A police officer patrolling the mean streets
of Hawaii, he has a background in contract security and both military
and civilian law enforcement. When not saving the world, one speeding
ticket at a time, he can usually be found wasting time on the internet,
playing video games — or both. Occasionally, he finds time to write
books.Links
www.facebook.com/BernardMaestasOfficial
www.bernardmaestas.wix.com/bernardmaestas
On Twitter @BernardMaestas
www.bernardmaestas.wix.com/bernardmaestas
On Twitter @BernardMaestas
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