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during an outlaw raid."
Ben got out of the Jeep and stretched his
six-feet-plus frame. "How in the hell do you
know so much about her, old married man?"
was "Cause I got here yesterday and inquiring
minds want to know!"
Both men laughed at the references to the old TV
commercial that many in the Rebel ranks would be too
young to have anything but a vague memory of.
Linda turned her head at the laughter and looked
at the men. She had been introduced to General
Ike, and the tall man with him had to be General Ben
Raines. He was handsome, not in a pretty-boy
way, but in a rugged, interesting way. Looked to be
about fifty, she guessed.
Ben lifted his eyes to hers and for an instant,
they stared at each other. Someone called to her and she
walked away.
Ike cleared his throat and said, "Big job ahead
of us, Ben."
"Yeah. Let's get to it."
Ben Raines and his Rebel Army, including the
forces of the Russian, Georgi Striganov, had
started this campaign on the banks of the
Mississippi, at St. Louis. Now they were all
but finished in the lower forty-eight, the campaign
taking them cross-country to the Northwest. They were
now preparing for the final leg, the assault on Los
Angeles, with its thousands of street punks arid
Night P.
Once on the West Coast, the Rebels had
discovered that all the talk of nuclear destruction-which
they had all believed for years-had been a
gigantic hoax. The West Coast was clean all
the way down into Mexico and beyond. Ben had been
hearing radio chatter for months about the Mexican people
reforming their army and cleaning out the nest of creepies
and outlaws. So far as he could tell, the Mexican
people were slowly gaining the upper hand.
In the United States, so far as the Rebels now
knew, only the Washington,
D.c./baltimore area and Kansas City had
actually taken nuclear strikes during the Great
War. Most of the other cities had taken chemical
strikes.
What Ben did not know was that Lan Villar,
Khamsin, Ashley, Kenny Parr, and the outlaw
bikers had pulled together what remained of their
shattered forces after butting head-to-head with the
Rebels in the Northwest, and were heading for