Free WAR: Opposition: (WAR Book 3) by Vanessa Kier

setup, although on a smaller scale, to the bombing of the base in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan attack had killed three of Wil’s teammates, plus his lover; and injured seven more, including Wil. Why Bogey One had turned his attention shortly afterward to West Africa was something Wil wanted to find out. But more critical was determining how many other potential attackers were in hiding, waiting for orders to cause chaos.
    Since Bogey One supported various rebel factions, Wil also needed to keep intel coming in so that should Bogey One finance a rebel attack against the base, or against any of the few remaining U.S. businesses in the region, Wil’s team could take preventative measures.
    Another voicemail confirmed that the extra military police soldiers Wil had requested would be arriving on time next week. It remained to be seen if they’d be an asset or if they’d be as unruly as the soldiers. He suspected that Bogey One had been taking advantage of Washington’s disinterest in West Africa to undermine Wil’s team and the overall effectiveness of the U.S. presence here by sending troublemakers and losers. This was the only U.S. military base still active in the region. Without the military’s flights to evacuate citizens in jeopardy, and without the diplomatic mission next door that allowed displaced persons to file for new paperwork and go home, the region would become much less safe for Americans.
    Which was, presumably, what Bogey One wanted, along with all of the rebel groups.
    Wil sighed. As long as the media kept the public’s attention focused on other parts of the world, then the politicians received no pressure from their constituencies to do the right thing in West Africa. Despite horrors such as the Hospital Massacre, the media remained focused on the larger war effort in the Middle East and elsewhere, and on the celebrity gossip of the day.
    It infuriated Wil that Americans were being captured and killed by the rebels, but Washington refused to take action against the rebels. If not for WAR, the rebels would control much more of the region than they already did.
    But, as history proved, it would take hundreds of American deaths to engage the public’s outrage enough to force Washington to act. It made Wil sick. He’d rather have no funding than have to live with the knowledge that innocent people died because he hadn’t been able to convince his superiors that the threat here was larger than they wanted to believe.
    In the meantime, Wil and his team would work their fingers to the bone trying to protect the people under their charge.

Chapter Six
    Sunday
    T he next night , Seth settled deeper into the shadows of the front patio at the local bar and took a long drink from his bottle of beer. After a long day that had started before dawn and involved flying rebel-supported businessmen between three countries, he just wanted to relax. But as he stared glumly out at the dark street and the irregular patches of lantern light, he couldn’t stop thinking about the assassin. He supposed that if his damned blackmailer had managed to make the connection between Seth Jarrod and Michael Hughes, then the assassin’s boss, General Sandberg—the corrupt American general who’d destroyed Seth’s life—could have discovered the link as well.
    Wasn’t that just his luck?
    He took another deep swallow of his beer. No matter how the assassin had ended up in the same market as Seth, the man’s appearance was the answer to his dilemma. After a lot of thought, he’d concluded that his blackmailer’s rules had a loophole. Suicide was out, but not death by a third party. So Seth simply had to allow the assassin to kill him. Preferably near a public place so that someone would find his body quickly. That way, word would reach his blackmailer before Seth was due to show up at Bureh’s airfield. And his family would be safe.
    He hoped.
    Seth didn’t care if his reputation remained tarred. He’d worked for some of the