Beale’s Hawk Down
This story came out of the prior one. Emily Beale is never subtle. She strode up, looked down at Michael’s and Mark’s story and said, “Where’s my origin story?”
I thought back to what little I knew about her military career prior to her joining the US Army’s 160th SOAR. There were two lines in the first book in The Night Stalker series, The Night Is Mine, (which was written five years earlier) about that.
And much like Emily, that forthright explanation seems to cover it.
This is the story behind those two lines. (I didn’t include them here because they would spoil part of this story and Emily wouldn’t like that.)
Seven Years Ago
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The Black Hawk helicopter shredded around her. The spin and fall fast enough that only the harness kept her in her seat.
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