Mike Barlowe
and Darryl Potter served together with Evan Morse who was killed by a roadside
bomb in Ramadi. Back in Minnesota, Evan’s younger sister is killed by an
inattentive driver, Wade Benson. Benson receives a light sentence and Darryl
Potter decides that kidnapping Benson’s daughter is a better punishment.
After Darryl
kidnaps Juliet Benson, Mike Barlowe feels obligated to help a fellow marine
because buddies stick up for each other. Darryl is a head case and Mike knows
it and helps his friend anyway. Mike finds Darryl and Juliet up in northern
Minnesota lake country and tries to help both Juliet and Darryl.
“For just a moment,
Mike didn’t see the Darryl Potter in the canoe with him. Instead, he saw the
beat-up Marine leaning over him in the back of a Humvee. In his mind, Mike saw
a white smile in a battle-grimed face, and he recognized that face for what it
truly had been: the face of a soul at ease. A man in his element, doing a job
he’d been cut out to do. Happy.”
“Darryl
Potter didn’t need any medals. What he needed was an enemy.” And Wade Benson
was it.Sean Doolittle has a website: http://seandoolittle.com/
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