Fight

W.R. Blocher

Description

The Fight brings the Dead Side trilogy to its exciting climax as Sam and Sarah fight back against the dystopian forces that have sought to destroy the world. The story starts with The Dead Side as they struggle to survive, moves through the Flight as they flee for their lives before reaching its climax in Fight.
The Dead Side: Fight brings the Dead Side trilogy to its exciting conclusion as Sam and Sarah carry the fight to The Enemy. In The Dead Side, they with others escape a brutal dystopian world in America, fleeing to the East Coast and only reaching safety after a series of battles with an Enemy whose only goal is their destruction. Their escape continues in Flight when the sail in a ship they built to escape the Enemy, nearly drowning in a gale in the Atlantic. Rescued by a British ship, they rebuild their lives in England. Sam joins the Royal Marines, while Sarah becomes a civil engineer and an officer in the Royal Army Engineers Reserve. In Fight, Sam leads the Royal Marines onto the Continent to destroy the Enemy, with Sarah’s engineers providing support. Their journey comes full circle when they return to America to help liberate the continent.

Sujets

• Dystopian
• Adventure (Guyana)
• Military
• Adventure
• Family
• Fiction
• Action

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 09 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781663252449
• Langue: English

Extrait

Other Books by W.R. Blocher
The Dead Side
The Dead Side: Flight
Holocaust’s Child
Something About Kate
FIGHT
THE DEAD SIDE
 
 
 
 
 
 
W.R. BLOCHER
 
 
 
 

 
FIGHT
THE DEAD SIDE
 
Copyright © 2023 W.R. Blocher.
 
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
 
 
 
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5245-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6632-5244-9 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2023907017
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date:  05/09/2023
CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
CHAPTER 1
S am and Sarah Hope stand in a light rain, an umbrella over their heads, looking at the headstone of the grave tucked under a large oak tree, the branches blowing slightly in the wind in the cool May air. Sam’s right arm is wrapped protectively around his wife’s shoulders as she cries softly looking at the grave of their second child, Frank. He was serving in the British Royal Army when he died in France, fighting an Enemy that had nearly taken their lives and the life of their oldest child, Judy.
Both now retired from military service, they make it a practice to visit this military cemetery once a week. It is their way of paying penance for not being able to be there for his funeral. They and Judy were fighting the very Enemy who killed him.
Sam’s mind wanders back to when Frank was born, when he was growing up, the fun times they had as a family, and all the things he had missed serving as a Royal Marine while his four children were growing up.
Finally, his memories lock onto the start of the events that have brought them to this point in their lives, and an end to their part in the battle to restore the world.

“Brigadier, the new Second Leftenants are here,” Color Sergeant Claude Lempriere sitting outside the commanding officer’s office says into the receiver.
“Have them wait five minutes,” Sam Hope replies.
“Yes, sir,” the Color Sergeant says, putting down the receiver. Looking up at the twelve newly minted Royal Marine officers who have just finished a brutal sixty-week training course, he says, “If you ladies and gentlemen will please have a seat, the Brigadier will be ready in five minutes.”
Instead of sitting, though, the twelve, who arrived singly and in small groups over the last twenty minutes, just mill around the large off-white waiting room, looking at each other, and out the windows that line both walls, having quiet conversations, and wondering what an interview with the legendary Brigade commander will be like. One of them, Judy Hope, a five-foot-six muscular woman with her long dark hair pulled back in a regulation bun, is particularly concerned—that her father will not understand her choice to go into a combat unit.
In his office at the Stonehouse Barracks in southern England, Sam sits back in his chair, looking out the large window behind his desk, seeing nothing in particular. Thinking back over the last twenty-six years, he contemplates what his life has become. He bears both the physical and emotional scars from battles he has fought, from people he has lost. The only comfort he can draw is that his family, and the other people he is protecting, are still safe. But for how long? That is the fear that nags at him all the time. And now his daughter, the oldest of his four children, is about to join the fight. With the expansion of the military, plans are in the works to invade the Continent.
Perhaps the war will finally be over.
Sometime.
But when that invasion will take place, and the role the Royal Marines will play, is still a mystery to him. All he can do is train and conduct raids to gather intelligence and provide his Marines with combat experience, accepting the deaths and maiming that brings.
His mind wanders back to when he regained consciousness in a graveyard somewhere in what he later learned was America. How he got caught up in a brutal military force run by Sergeants who beat, tortured and killed at a whim. How he and Sarah, along with five others, escaped from the camp after he, Sarah, and George killed the four Sergeants who were trying to rape Mary, who was also in their eight-member squad. How three of their number died fighting The Enemy who kept pursuing them, until they were rescued by a brother and sister, Josh and Debbie McFarland. How they built a ship to flee from the implacable enemy who only sought to destroy.
By then, Sarah and Sam had a daughter, Judy, and were expecting a second child.
After nearly dying in a storm at sea, they were rescued by an armed British fishing trawler. Sam joined the Royal Marines, while Sarah became a civil engineer and a reserve officer in the Royal Army Engineers. Now Judy is a Marine officer and Frank, their second child, is in the Royal Army Reserves while at university. Emily, their other daughter, is in medical school, while Samuel, the youngest, has just started university, not sure about his major yet, though he is leaning toward engineering.
Now, with Judy about to come in as a new Second Lieutenant, he is feeling the weight of all those years, his whole body slumping down in the chair.
Sam glances at the clock, realizing it has been more than five minutes. Straightening up in his chair, he buzzes the Color Sergeant, who then ushers the twelve through the door, closing it behind them. The new Second Lieutenants arrange themselves in front of the desk, behind which sits the Brigadier, watching them closely. All are standing at attention. Sam’s eyes come to rest on the one on the far right.
Shifting to the Second Lieutenant on the left, the Brigadier says, “Rest. Name and posting.”
Shifting his gaze down the line, each comes to attention, sounds off, looking straight ahead, not daring to make eye contact, then returns to parade rest. When he gets to the final one, he hears, “Second Leftenant Hope. A Company, Four Two Commando.”
The Brigadier digests that for a moment. Then, without shifting his gaze from Hope, issues an order: “Second Leftenant Hope, stand fast. The rest, give us the room.”
When the door has closed behind the other eleven, the Brigadier keeps Judy locked in his stare. “Sit down,” he orders, his angry blue eyes flashing.
“Sir, if you’ll let me explain,” Judy says, going to attention, her gaze fixed firmly ahead.
“Don’t give me that ‘sir’ shit. This isn’t Brigadier to Second Leftenant. This is father to daughter, and you better bloody well have a good explanation. Now plant your ass in that chair!” he says, using his right hand to emphasize he order.
“Yes, sir, I mean Dad,” Judy says, sitting down, speaking as calmly as she can. “Now if you’ll just…”
“Your mother is going to kill me,” he says, the frustration evident in his voice. “Do you know that? What do you have to say for yourself young lady?”
“I just ….”
“And when she’s done with me, she’ll slaughter you! So, why did you break your word?” he demands, his eyes drilling into her.
“Let me...” she tries to say, forcing herself to return his stern look.
“She is going to be furious with me. She’ll want to know why I didn’t get you assigned to a non-combat unit.”
“Dad, that was my…”
“You know I can’t intervene in your posting. How do I explain that to her?”
“Dad, I…”
“You know she won’t accept any explanation,” Sam says, looking at the ceiling. “She won’t care about morale, about how it will affect my ability to command, or even your ability to serve.”
“I know, Dad, but…”
“She’ll just have my hide,” he says, throwing up his hands. “And it will be all your fault. You do know that?” he says, looking at Judy.
“Yes, Dad, but…” she says, starting to get exasperated about his not listening to her explanation.
“Oh, God, I can just see her now. How can I go home and tell her this?”
“Sorry, Dad, but…”
“Why did you break your promise to her?”
“Dad, I…”
“How could you do that to her?”
“Dad! Dad!” Judy says, raising her voice to break into her father’s diatribe and waving her arms to help the effort. “Will you please let me get a word in? Please!”
Sam clamps his mouth shut, just waving a hand at her as he looks away.
Judy takes a deep breath. “Look, I want to make this