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    Quantum Troopers Episode 4: ANAD
    Quantum Troopers Episode 4: ANAD
    Quantum Troopers Episode 4: ANAD
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    Quantum Troopers Episode 4: ANAD

    By Philip Bosshardt

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    Johnny Winger escapes from Lions Rock and travels back to Table Top, where he is debriefed by Intel (Q2). Kraft wants Winger to go to Northgate University and meet Dr. Irwin Frost, to work with Frost on enhancing ANAD’s capabilities. Winger does this and learns how ANAD came to be born. While at Northgate, Winger and Frost come under assault from unknown swarm assailants and Doc Frost is injured, but will recover. The evidence points back to Red Hammer. What’s worse, in follow-on tests with ANAD, the nanobot seems to be compromised and functioning poorly. Winger believes there is a spy/saboteur within the Lab, possibly one of Frost’s assistants. How to ferret out the culprit? Winger has an idea: plant ANAD spybots on known suspects. It’s legally questionable but the Lab director okays it. The tactic works and Winger commands the bots on the real culprit (an assistant in the Lab) to MOB the perp and immobilize him. He’s a Carpathian intern named Milan Stovacs, a Red Hammer agent. Stovacs is taken into custody and faces a memory trace session. Meanwhile, Winger helps Frost to repair ANAD and regain its capabilities. It’s here that Frost proposes a symbiotic embedding of ANAD inside the bodies of Quantum Corps troopers, as a future capability. Winger is intrigued and volunteers for the first test of the procedure. But the procedure isn’t proven and something goes wrong. Winger starts to flatline...the embedded ANAD is having unanticipated effects. Will Johnny Winger survive the test? Fourth episode in the Quantum Troopers serial.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilip Bosshardt
    Release dateMar 18, 2016
    ISBN9781310767548
    Quantum Troopers Episode 4: ANAD
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    Philip Bosshardt

    Philip Bosshardt is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. He works for a large company that makes products everyone uses...just check out the drinks aisle at your grocery store. He’s been happily married for over 20 years. He’s also a Georgia Tech graduate in Industrial Engineering. He loves water sports in any form and swims 3-4 miles a week in anything resembling water. He and his wife have no children. They do, however, have one terribly spoiled Keeshond dog named Kelsey.For details on his series Tales of the Quantum Corps, visit his blog at qcorpstimes.blogspot.com or his website at http://philbosshardt.wix.com/philip-bosshardt.

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      Quantum Troopers Episode 4 - Philip Bosshardt

      Quantum Troopers

      Episode 5: Table Top Mountain

      Published by Philip Bosshardt at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Philip Bosshardt

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      A few words about this series….

      Quantum Troopersis a series of 15,000- 20,000 word episodes detailing the adventures of Johnny Winger and his experiences with the United Nations Quantum Corps.

      Each episode will be about 40-50 pages, approximately 20,000 words in length.

      A new episode will be available and uploaded every 3 weeks.

      There will be 22 episodes. The story will be completely serialized in about 14 months.

      Each episode is a stand-alone story but will advance the greater theme and plot of the story arc.

      The main plotline: U.N. Quantum Corps must defeat the criminal cartel Red Hammer’s efforts to steal or disable their new nanorobotic ANAD systems.

      Uploads will be made towww.smashwords.comon approximately the schedule below:

      Episode # Title Approximate Upload Date

      1 ‘Atomgrabbers’ 1-14-16

      2 ‘Nog School’ 2-8-16

      3 ‘Deeno and Mighty Mite’ 2-29-16

      4 ‘ANAD’ 3-21-16

      5 ‘Table Top Mountain’ 4-11-16

      6 ‘I, Lieutenant John Winger…’ 5-2-16

      7 ‘Hong Chui’ 5-23-16

      8 ‘Doc Frost’ 6-13-16

      9 ‘Demonios of Via Verde’ 7-5-16

      10 ‘The Big Bang’ 7-25-16

      11 ‘Engebbe’ 8-15-16

      12 ‘The Symbiosis Project’ 9-5-16

      13 ‘Small is All!’ 9-26-16

      14 ‘’The HNRIV Factor’ 10-17-16

      15 ‘A Black Hole’ 11-7-16

      16 ‘ANAD on Ice’ 11-29-16

      17 ‘Lions Rock’ 12-19-16

      18 ‘Geoplanes’ 1-9-17

      19 ‘Mount Kipwezi’ 1-30-17

      20 ‘Doc II’ 2-20-17

      21 ‘Paryang Monastery’ 3-13-17

      22 ‘Epilogue’ 4-3-17

      Chapter 1

      Quantum Shadows

      Singapore and Table Top Mountain,

      Idaho, USA

      October 30, 2048

      6:00 pm

      Inmate 287455 stood still for a moment, listening. The sound finally came…a heavy iron door clanging shut behind her. The sound brought a smile to her pale face. Changi Prison was behind her now. For good. Freedom…it tasted like salty air wafting up from the harbor. Like bougainvillea lining the manicured sidewalks of Tanah Merah Besar Street. Like spicy fish on a grill, from somewhere beyond the concertina wire and steel fencing that surrounded the white stone and pink facing of the prison.

      Inmate 287455 started walking. She didn’t have to look behind to see in her mind’s eye the mustard yellow cinder block and blue cell doors she was leaving behind, after five years. She walked straight down the street, heading in the general direction of Queenstown and her goal.

      They had released her, four years ahead of her parole date, for a reason. Swallow this, the parole officer had said, giving her a small blue capsule. It was nanoderm and some other things—she knew that much—and it would slightly change her facial appearance, the nanoscale bots morphing her epidermis and skin muscles to more closely resemble someone else. Sign this, they had told her, and pushed some papers she could barely read in front of her. She signed. Be at this location by six p.m. tonight, they had marked a map for her and plotted out a route. She was following that route right now.

      Oh, they gave Inmate 287455 a whole new identity…new chip, new cards, new face, new voice.

      And for agreeing to all that, she was set free slightly more than halfway through her sentence and given a job to do. A strange job, to be sure, but then when Parole Officer Jurang dangles a pass to the outside world, commutes all charges and slaps some spending money on the table, then orders her to head for Queenstown, Inmate 287455 was not going to argue.

      She walked and inhaled the luxurious aroma of freedom, hearing ships’ horns blaring down by the harbor, the delicious honking of cabs and limos scuttling up and down Bukit Panjang Road, and the bustle and chaos of a city in full, delirious motion.

      Presently, she spied the upper towers of her target. It was Queensgate Hotel. She didn’t hurry. In fact, she stopped at a roadside vendor and bought an ice cream. It tasted like heaven. She took her time. Why hurry? She didn’t have to be at her goal until six p.m.

      Inmate 287455 decided to walk a few blocks beyond the hotel, exploring a narrow warren of shops and carts, all jammed together in a seemingly endless bazaar, before finally turning back to the hotel grounds, set in an idyllic paradise of eucalyptus trees and azalea bushes and an amusing topiary of fanciful fairy-tale dragons and elephants and things that had no name.

      She walked in and headed to the Registration desk promptly at six o’clock.

      Sheila Reaves stood on the balcony of her hotel room, spying the funnels of container ships and naval frigates easing past each other along the Bedok South channel. The air was sweet with the cloying scent of tapang trees and the sunset visible over the tops of the trade center and the university and the masts of the sailing ships at the marina looked promising, swathed in the orange and maroon of late afternoon thunderclouds boiling up from the tropics.

      She polished off the wine the room service bot had brought up an hour ago and went inside, flopping on the bed for a huge yawn and a stretch. The Corps had given her three days’ liberty after being rescued from that stone coffin called Lions Rock in Hong Kong. Colonel Batu, Eastern Command base commander, issued the pass personally, with instructions from Major Kraft himself.

      We’re putting you up for three days and nights at the Queensgate, on the Corps. Kraft figured it’s the least he can do after all the bother with getting you exfiltrated from Lions Rock—did you really climb out through solid rock?

      I did, sir, Reaves admitted. "Tunneled out by ANAD…not something I

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