Odd, she thought. That zom hadn't been constructed from a patchwork of bodies. It's a single human corpse. How could Intel be so wrong? A sense of unease rose from deep in her gut. More was happening here than she'd been told. Following her mission protocols, she could abandon the mission, but her own agenda took priority over those protocols. It was the real reason she'd pushed for this recon and why she'd joined Special Ops. Only a Special Ops agent had the latitude to make adjustments to their orders if the circumstances warranted it. As far as she was concerned, this new information was worth pursuing. Of course, she would have decided to continue regardless. Her father and brother had been trapped in the infected zone when, after weeks of fighting, the army cordoned off the city cen

