A Different Kind of Courage

By James Daniel Ross

Captain Todd Rook is called to meet with a revolutionary leader to foment open rebellion. It is a just cause, an honest cause, a righteous cause. It is simply one he does not believe can win. He must meet in the rebel camp and tell them the truth. And hopefully, teach these slaves that there is more than one kind of uprising, a different sort of

• Language: English
• Publisher: eSpec Books
• Release date: Oct 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781942990123

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Radiation Angels: The Mission Files

A Different Kind

of Courage

James Daniel Ross

eSpec Books LLC

Stratford, NJ

PUBLISHED BY

eSpec Books LLC

Danielle McPhail, Publisher

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Copyright ©2015 James Daniel Ross

Cover Art Copyright ©2015 Mike McPhail, McP Digital Graphics

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-942990-12-3

Previously published in Barbarians at the Jumpgate, edited by Bruce Gehweiler, Padwolf Publishing, 2010.

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All persons, places, and events in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, places, or events is purely coincidental.

Content Editing: Greg Schauer and Danielle McPhail

Interior Design: Sidhe na Daire Multimedia

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A Different Kind of Courage

Radiation Angels

James Daniel Ross

You can’t be considering this, Captain. Warner whispered, still far too loudly.

I can, I said.

He missed my tone of finality, and his jaw muscles danced, Captain, this is ludicrous—

I hate a man who can’t take a hint. Lieutenant, shut the hell up.

Warner, always a man with a surplus of pride, bristled. Sir, I am not going to risk my life in the service of a bunch of—

I addressed the Master Sergeant walking on my other side nonchalantly. Logan, if he speaks again, break his jaw in four places.

Say what else you want about him, my Sergeant does a beautiful deadpan. Yes, sir. To be fair, having a face made of metal helps.

My name is Todd Rook. I am the Captain of The Radiation Angels, and this is the worst part of my job. Well, not this part, the next part. This part is just useless and dangerous but necessary.

My bodyguards met her bodyguards, and just like praetorians down through history, they sought to subtly dominate the room. Our opposites sat at such a stiff attention you could have struck