His words hung in the air behind his back, stunning her.
It is now over.
Dahl didn’t look back. Drake guessed what was transpiring and watched his friend’s back carefully, still not fully trusting Kenzie. What would this new development do to her? He was ready, fingers poised over a Glock, in case she acted.
She didn’t. She walked back to the crew, face blank, eyes far away. Drake couldn’t tell if she could get past it or let it destroy her. Alicia was watching Kenzie too, a knowing wariness in her eyes.
Bloody hell, he thought. What comes next?
The toughest quest of their lives, searching for the weapons of the gods? A journey with the old-school blood and thunder warrior and his big brother? The return of Karin and her unknown agenda? FrameHub? Tempest? Dealing with the dreadful knowledge that they had been burned and were, essentially, still being hunted along with more than a dozen other teams?
He stood up today, ready to heal quickly and face the world with a little laughter and a good deal of camaraderie.
Tomorrow, and its oncoming, unstoppable nightmare, would be here all too soon.
For more information on the future of the Matt Drake world and other David Leadbeater novels please read on:
The next Matt Drake novel will be called Weapons of the Gods, and should be released around February 2018. It will feature the climax of the current arc, so we are able to move on to the next.
Next up, in November 2017, will be another instalment of the very popular Relic Hunters story, where the new characters will be greatly expanded upon amid another edge of the seat archaeological thriller, this time centering on Atlantis. In case you didn’t know, Relic Hunters 1 won the Amazon UK Kindle Storyteller Award on the 25th July 2017, picked from a panel of 6 judges, and I would like to thank everyone that bought the book and left a review.
If you have enjoyed this or any other books of mine, please leave a review. Even a short line or two helps to ensure future releases.
Other Books by David Leadbeater:
The Bones of Odin (Matt Drake #1)
The Blood King Conspiracy (Matt Drake #2)
The Gates of Hell (Matt Drake 3)
The Tomb of the Gods (Matt Drake #4)
Brothers in Arms (Matt Drake #5)
The Swords of Babylon (Matt Drake #6)
Blood Vengeance (Matt Drake #7)
Last Man Standing (Matt Drake #8)
The Plagues of Pandora (Matt Drake #9)
The Lost Kingdom (Matt Drake #10)
The Ghost Ships of Arizona (Matt Drake #11)
The Last Bazaar (Matt Drake #12)
The Edge of Armageddon (Matt Drake #13)
The Treasures of Saint Germain (Matt Drake #14)
Inca Kings (Matt Drake #15)
The Four Corners of the Earth (Matt Drake #16)
Aztec Gold (Alicia Myles #1)
Crusader’s Gold (Alicia Myles #2)
Caribbean Gold (Alicia Myles #3)
Stand Your Ground (Dahl Thriller #1)
The Relic Hunters (Relic Hunters #1)
The Razor’s Edge (Disavowed #1)
In Harm’s Way (Disavowed #2)
Threat Leveclass="underline" Red (Disavowed #3)
Chosen (The Chosen Trilogy #1)
Guardians (The Chosen Tribology #2)
Walking with Ghosts (A short story)
A Whispering of Ghosts (A short story)
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