Eden
Day Seven
Stryker turned to Matte, glad Angie was going to get some food in her. “Thanks, she’s my wife.”
“No problem. Sorry it took us a while. Naval mines everywhere. What did you find?”
“We need to finish this,” Stryker said. “I’ll fill you in.”
They spoke for a minute and the boat pulled back from the dock and headed for the underground harbor.
Stryker looked the ship over. It was about the same size as the fishing vessel he’d seen parked in the harbor, but this craft was built for war. It had a V-hull, twin engines, and two types of mounted machine guns: a .50 caliber and a 7.62 mm Gatling gun. Matte had called the boat a MAKO, redesigned from the earlier MK V, which Stryker had seen once in a port in Iraq.
He settled in the rear, behind the .50 caliber. One of Matte’s gu
