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First things first -- the winners and the answers to the trivia quiz!
The winner of Trivia Quiz # 2: Back Story is:
Becky Calvert
Becky answered all eight questions correctly, as well as came closest to the tie-breaker number! She'll be receiving a signed, mint first edition of HARVARD'S EDUCATION!
Honorable Mentions?! We had too many to, well, mention! Nearly everyone who entered got all of the answers to this quiz -- it definitely came down to Question 9! And Becky was the closest! Good job, everyone!
Congratulations, Becky!
Answers to Trivia Quiz # 2: Backstory
Okay! Time for the second Countdown excerpt from Flashpoint!
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Set up: After a devastating earthquake hits the region, the borders of the terrorist hotspot, Kazbekistan, is opened to the West for the first time in years. The TS, Inc. team, led by Lawrence Decker and Jimmy Nash, goes in, posing as relief workers, searching for a laptop computer that is believed to have information about a coming terrorist attack. But once they arrive, it's clear they're going to be doing more than just posing...
Murphy saw it at the exact second Deck did -- four men, running from a side street, shouting and gesturing toward the bus.
Murph got to his feet, already opening the bag that held the arsenal of weapons he'd somehow acquired in Ikrimah, ready to repel an attack.
Dave Malkoff, too, was up and over by the bus driver, ready to launch out the door, if necessary. Decker hadn't even seen the man move.
"Don't slow down," he heard Dave instruct the driver, who kicked it into a higher gear.
But then Nash stood up from his seat in the back. "Stop the bus!" he shouted in both English and the local K-stani dialect. "They're saying they've uncovered a school!" He was over by an open window, and had no doubt been able to make out the words that the men had been shouting as they drove past. "It was buried under debris, another building fell and... They've finally dug through and part of the school's intact. There are children inside -- still alive! They need this bus!"
Decker stood then, too. "Dave!" he shouted.
Everyone was talking, all at once, so he didn't hear what the former CIA agent said to the driver. All he knew was that the bus skidded to a stop and was put into reverse. With a whining of gears, they began backing up.
When he glanced again toward the front of the bus, he saw that Dave Malkoff had commandeered the driver's seat.
"Gather up your all your gear and take it with you," Nash was shouting over the babbling. "God willing, they're going to need every seat."
Murphy was already pulling duffels and backpacks down from the overhead racks.
The bus jerked to a stop, and Decker saw exactly what three of the men chasing them were carrying in their arms.
Injured children.
That's all for now! Be sure to come back for tomorrow's installment in the Countdown to FLASHPOINT!
See you tomorrow!