The Dragons of Men (The Sons of Liberty Book 2) by Jordan Ervin Read Free Book Online Page B

with one hell of a mess.”
    “Forgive me, but I’m trying to wrap my head around all this without much luck,” Adam said. “You’re talking about a preplanned assault, French Legionnaires, Israeli Special Forces, and your Sons of Liberty. I mean, you’re telling me you gathered an army on American soil and no one knew about it? Last night I arrived in DC thinking Lukas was about to step down and the United States was finally going to start the rebuilding process. Now—if I’m understanding everything correctly—DC is in ruins, Lukas Chambers is now some emperor, and the USA doesn’t exist anymore.”
    “You’re sitting here, aren’t you?” Marc asked. “And Gene’s here too. Are you not still Americans?”
    “I don’t know,” Adam began. “But—”
    “And I may be French and Lev over there may be Israeli, but we too want the same thing.”
    “Which is what?”
    “To live in a world where powerful men can’t simply take what they want because no one ever dared to slap their hand.”
    “But what happened, Gene?” Adam asked, turning to Gene. “I mean, how did you manage to organize such a resistance without anyone knowing?”
    “I wouldn’t quite say I managed much more than a loss of a hell of a lot of good men,” Gene grumbled. “After we parted ways in Montana, I spent my time gathering every weapon and every soldier I could muster without letting too many in on our secret. We managed to pretty much stay incognito till the end. I had friends overseas like these guys willing to drop what they were doing and come to our aide, as we had done for them so many times before. On top of that, I had a multitude of retired and royally pissed off vets ready to hang Lukas and every other crooked politician in DC by their own entrails. I even had the state militias that the Feds had been tryin’ to suppress for years ride with me. By the time Hewitt up and quit on us, I figured the time had come for America’s last guardians to deploy.”
    “How did you know Lukas was going to take over Washington?”
    “It’s what I would have done had I been a treasonous maggot who played the world for a fool,” Gene replied dryly. “When I heard about his plan to step down during the State of the Union address, I knew that was when we needed to be there. And no offense, but you’re one dumb son of a bitch, thinking he’d actually go through with that. But I spread the word, managed to stay hidden as we quietly marched toward DC, and signaled our men to move in once Lukas started blabbering.”
    “What happened?” Adam asked.
    “We had three main advances,” Gene replied. “The plan had been to begin by moving in with small strike teams. Someone was jamming all communications in DC and we managed to locate the source of the jammer at Reagan International. Marc and Lev infiltrated the airport with their team of commandos to disable the Graystone device and open up comms as we signaled the attack by activating the old tornado sirens. Alpha team had fifty men infiltrate the Capitol Building to secure Lukas while Bond and his men moved in to extract as many politicians as possible—mainly you. As that was going on, we were supposed to set up an aerial blockade with nearly sixty fighters and half as many fast moving helos. They were to keep out any drones that the Patriarchs launched while our amphibious tanks moved off the Potomac and set up a base of operations on the National Mall. Lev helped us outfit the tanks and infantry with new anti-drone Pulsar weapons, courtesy of our allies over in Israel.”
    “They’re designed to disable airborne drones via a concentrated electromagnetic shock,” Lev said, looking up from his tablet. “Though I’m more than sure they’d disable ground troops as well. It’s a lot like wielding lightning.”
    “I think I saw something similar on William’s gun,” Adam said.
    “The smaller the shotty packs disrupt the targeting systems,” Lev replied. “But the bigger