Operation Bushwhack
Ghost Cavalry Battalion Book 2
September 1986
While Team Spearpoint’s striker, Abilene, is on a routine pizza run into nearby Alexandria LA, she’s overpowered and abducted. Since this is right after completing their Operation Snakebite mission – with its unpredictably high enemy body count – in the New Orleans area, the most obvious perpetrators are the KGB.
For the past few days Spearpoint’s strikers have been resting and recuperating at their temporary home base, Ponderosa [remote area of England AFB in Louisiana]. Abilene’s seemingly simple errand – alone – was a serious breach of security and team leader Honcho should have known better.
Cheyenne still has not been released to return to Team Arrowhead, neither Wichita nor Laramie have been released from their TDYs back to Spearpoint, and the badly injured Durango is presumably still recovering at Medicine Lodge.
When Spearpoint’s 1985 Dodge Caravan is later recovered, a message left by the kidnappers gives the team some vague clues… but it requires the efforts of Raven at Battalion HQ to help Spearpoint figure out where Abilene has been taken and why some captured Russian equipment seems so important.
Someone from Battalion HQ must speed to the site to assist in the recovery of Abilene and assess any related trouble from the kidnappers. Raven insists: “Spearpoint is one of my four rapid response teams… it should be me.”
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From page 92 of Standing The Final Watch
Throughout the immense space the CHILSS, Cryogenic Human Interactive Life Support Systems, opened as their inhabitants came back to consciousness.
Operation Overtime
Hidden inside a mountain in Arizona, the men and women of the Last Brigade woke to a world of wonder and ruin, of beauty and slavery. With the world they’d known destroyed, it was time to lock and load and get on with the business of resurrecting freedom.
If you target someone for assassination, you’d better not miss
Task Force Zombie prowling the unfinished tunnels inside the mountain.
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5 Stars “I’ll say right here that Standing the Final Watch is excellent… The book has been finely edited; the story is cohesive and keeps moving; and the dialogue is spot on. If you’re any fan of…Clancy or Greaney, even James Rollins or Clive Cussler, you’re going to enjoy this book. There’s just enough sci-fi to create an intelligent “What if?” scenario, and there are twists and turns enough that it’s impossible to get bored. I couldn’t put the book down, and honestly, I didn’t really want to. Standing the Final Watch gets a strong 4 out of 4 Stars from me. This story is just well-told and enjoyable.” — Eric Morris, goodreads.com
5 Stars “I found this to be a great book with a common theme of many apocalypse type stories but with some great new twists and a great main character. General Angriff seems a bit like I imagine General Patton was and certainly ‘apes’ him with his Desert Eagle and attitude but I enjoyed his character. Certainly the twists with the suspended animation of all those soldiers is great but the sub-plots and twists keep the tension high.” — Ian Brown, Amazon Review
5 Stars “You will not want to put this book down. From its opening chapter to the very end, you will be drawn from one chapter to the next. Bill Webb is clearly an avid reader, historian and talented writer…Webb shows his deep respect for our military and his concern for our nation.” — Bart Bechtel, Amazon Review
5 Stars “The author has done a great job with this story. Characters are believable and are being well developed. Minimal editing issues. I’m really looking forward to part 2. The author needs a big attaboy for this story.” Harry L. Skinner, goodreads.com”What I like the best about this book was the portrayal of the characters. I felt like I was in the novel and experiencing whatever the characters were experiencing. The author spent a good part of the book building up the relationships between the characters. All the characters, from the good guys to the bad guys, were crafted into believable and well-developed characters. Nick Angriff came off as a rough, but likable character. His best friend, Norm Fleming, helped to build up Nick’s character by helping him with any problem that he faced. Overall, I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. Because of the suspenseful action scenes and the portrayal of the characters, I truly enjoyed reading this book. I would recommend this book to readers who like to read post-apocalyptic thriller books.” — Onlinebookclub.org
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