SIDEWINDER SEVEN
Brad Hanson is a top Air Force pilot about to retire. Having seen action in Desert Storm and Bosnia, he's spending his last few months of active duty flying transports and deciding what to do with the rest of his life.
Brad's current run is a C-17 cargo plane filled with chemical weapons destined for burial in a security toxic waste site in Nevada. Weapons no longer needed now that the cold war is over.
But Brad's C-17 never makes it to Nevada. A squadron of unmarked fighter jets blasts the four F-16s escorting him out of the sky, then goes after the cargo plane. Brad manages to out maneuver the fighters for a while, but takes a hit from a sidewinder missile over the Rockies. Brad bails out only moments before the C-17 crashes in a high valley.
Now Brad is in a race with a squad of top Mercenaries, lead by Colonel Charles T. Hessions, to recover the deadly cargo. The Mercenaries plan: Ten billion dollars or the chemical weapons will be unleashed on Los Angeles...
Where the President and his wife are attending a conference.
Brad, with the help of a pretty park ranger named Jasmine, must climb mountains, ford rivers, and avoid deadly rattle snakes as they chase Hessions and the Mercenaries to the deadly cargo.
But when Hessions gets to the chemical weapons first, Brad and Jasmine must fight the vicious team of mercenaries and prevent the bombs from being loaded onto an F-16... which will unleash the weapons on Los Angeles.
"SIDEWINDER SEVEN" is "The Rock" in the Rockies, a fast paced action script in the tradition of "Cliffhanger", "Broken Arrow", and "Relentless" (1977).
"SIDEWINDER SEVEN" story by William C. Martell
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