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“You’re a lucky bastard, Quinn,” Patty commented over the intercom.
“But it makes sense,” Mick did his best to offer sympathy as he flew the Little Bird up into the hills behind the submarine base.
“I know it does. But now I know how M&M and Kenny really felt when they had to turn back.”
That was true. He’d have hated being in her assigned role on this mission, too. No Night Stalker liked being left behind the action, even in a crucial role.
He stayed low, rarely more than twenty feet above the tips of the trees as he circled all of the way around the massif of the Shiveluch volcano. His night-vision display showed the ash cloud spewing forth from the snow-covered peak as a thick mass. He gave it a wide berth before descending down into the Kamchatka River valley.
They’d stripped
