CHAPTER 28: ESCAPE
Jabal al-Zawiya Mountains
Northern Syria
5:30 AM
The fire spread through the camp like a living thing, leaping from building to building, consuming everything in its path. The flames illuminated the valley, turning the night into something that was almost day, casting shadows that danced and shifted and seemed to watch the men who were running, who were dying, who were trying to escape the inferno that had been meant for someone else.
Reyes moved through the smoke, Jack's arm across her shoulders, Martinez on his other side, their bodies pressed together, their steps uncertain, their lungs burning with the ash and the dust and the heat of the fire that was following them. Behind them, the camp was a chaos of screams and gunfire and the sound of buildings collapsing
