Chapter OnePresent Day, June 13, 2300 Hours (11 p.m. Panama Local Time)
“It was a dark and stormy night!” Danny Corvo declared over the intercom as he fought the big helo’s controls.
“Ho-ly crap!” Carmen’s words were jarred out of her by the Calamity Jane II slamming into another squall line as if it was a solid wall. “Did Danny just make a jo-ke?”
He should have kept his mouth shut and just flown the damn helicopter.
The massive Chinook twin-rotor helicopter was getting battered by the tail end of a tropical storm they were using for cover on this training mission. The last thing to do under those conditions was to encourage Carmen.
“He did?” “What did I miss?” The other two gunners, probably woken up by Carmen’s initial shout, chimed in like it was some special event they didn’t wan
