trouble—set off a string of Black Cat firecrackers in their driveway.
POP-POP-POP-POP-BANG!
The sound was unmistakable. Indistinguishable from small arms fire.
In the living room, Luke screamed.
It wasn’t a scream of pain. It was the scream of a man being transported back to a dusty road in Helmand Province, to the moment when his Humvee hit the pressure continue reading …