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Cormack cannot fire at them from the north without shooting toward the friendlies, the west is shut by a hamlet whose people have not left, and every rocket he spends is one he will not have when the company has to move.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288132608066,"sku":"BP-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Low_and_Slow_cover_708e8bd2-f722-4c79-9ba1-67b1b76d86ee.jpg?v=1790727021"},{"product_id":"river-smoke-black-ponies-book-2","title":"River Smoke (Black Ponies Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe convoy is under the smoke, and the smoke is lying on the river.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith his usual airplane out of action, Cormack flies one one seven, a Bronco whose left gun pair stops for reasons nobody has found. His call is a river convoy caught in a bend with a fuel barge burning in the middle of it. Black smoke covers the inside of the bend, the convoy commander has lost radios with three boats, and then both banks open fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCormack will not fire over a column he cannot see, and Lieutenant Quillen cannot tell him where his boats are. So Baines asks a different question: not where the boats are, but what they are going to do. 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He gets the Bronco stopped past a new crater, and then the count begins: holes in the strip, the taxi route shut, the spare-parts airframe destroyed, one fuel bladder gone and the line from another possibly contaminated. Forty miles south-west, Captain Corbin's district compound has an assault forming in the treeline in front of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA construction chief named Rooker will not say how much runway there is until he has walked it with a chain and a bar. The fuel man will not certify what he cannot see. Cormack has two damaged aircraft, a new back-seater for Pike, and a load decision in which every choice costs something.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288132673602,"sku":"BP-03-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/03_Broken_Strip_cover_9475668e-ac6d-4808-a635-b25521bec0da.jpg?v=1790727020"},{"product_id":"pony-down-black-ponies-book-4","title":"Pony Down (Black Ponies Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the squadron's own Broncos is down on a dike, and the wreck is the only thing anybody can see.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLieutenant Pike puts one one nine down in a flooded Delta field with a heavy gun in the tree line behind him, then gets his man off the dike and into the rice, away from the fire. 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A rescue crewman is on the ground with the survivors, a sweep line is walking the crop toward them, and somewhere in that field a heavy weapon has held its fire all day, waiting for an aircraft to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45290318889026,"sku":"BP-04-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/Pony_Down_BP4_cover_7161fc31-6701-4e33-95d8-b96779eac15c.jpg?v=1790756832"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/black-ponies-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}