When There's No More room In Hell: A Zombie Novel

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Author: Luke Duffy
Forces, three South Africans, and even two Serbians who were thought to be wanted for war crimes. With a couple of Australians and New Zealanders thrown in to the mix, they were a highly multi-cultural bunch and no one could ever accuse them of not being tolerant of other nationalities.
    To their right was a high curb with open waste ground beyond it and buildings in the distance with a densely built-up area to their immediate left. They came to a junction controlled by Iraqi Police and began to slow, keeping their distance from the traffic in front in order to maintain manoeuvrability. The police were holding the traffic and allowing the vehicles across from the left. They were making a poor job of it, and with the volume of traffic in all directions, the crossroads was almost at a standstill, even for the drivers who were supposed to be moving.
    A series of loud cracks, like the snapping of a whip, rang out as incoming rounds flew overhead, causing the men to duck in their seats as they recognised the distinct snap of enemy fire.
    “ Contact right!” Someone screamed over the radio.
    Marcus spun his head around to try and identify the threat. From his position in the commander’s seat, in the second vehicle of the convoy, he heard the heavy 7.62mm machine guns begin to fire from the turrets on top of their vehicles. The distinct rapid thump as they unleashed their deadly, heavy rain of fire at their targets was almost comforting. Sini, the gunner in Marcus’ own vehicle, was firing in three to five round bursts, never letting up the pressure on their attackers. His body was juddering as the recoil shook the weapon in his hands.
    Green tracer rounds start ed to pass over the front of the vehicle a second later, after the shooter had adjusted his position, and were smashing into the side. Up and down the whole length of the SUV, Marcus could hear the thwack as the rounds pierced the outer shell of the vehicle and thumped into the hard armour plating beneath.
    The driver , a burly guy from New Zealand named Eddie, began to try to push forward to get them out of the line of fire.
    “All vehi cles push through, push through!” Marcus commanded.
    The turret gunner s increased the rate of fire, and all the drivers accelerated to clear the immediate killing area. The fire coming in from the right had doubled and was now more concentrated and accurate as the insurgents became more determined not to allow the team to get away.
    “Man down, Nick is down!” Marcus heard through his ear piece. He looked back over his shoulder to see that the machine gun in the third vehicle was no longer firing as Nick was pulled back inside. By now, all four vehicles were taking heavy fire and with nowhere else to go, the driver of the lead vehicle began trying to push his way through the static traffic ahead of them.
    Civilian drivers had either raced off, or abandoned their cars to seek cover from the bullets whizzing through the air all around them. The Police had fled and the junction was now a mass of vehicles blocking all three lanes. It was impossible to push through and Marcus had to think fast.
    “Reverse back. We’r e gonna have to try and push back the way we came.” He gave over the radio. All four vehicles came to a sudden stop, and almost instantly began to back up, building up speed by the second.
    Rounds co ntinued to zip over them and into them. The gunners were screaming target indications to each other over the radios, trying to guide each other to the enemy positions, but for every enemy neutralized, another position took up the firing. The incoming fire never let up and soon the vehicles were beginning to smoke from heavy damage. Tyres and windows, even though armoured, were blown out. Everyone in the vehicles was being hit with shrapnel from the doors as they buckled under the continuous impacts, and also splinters of glass as the integrity of the armour was pushed to its limits.
    The noise was beyond deafening, the
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