Tonight’s post is part of some really early brainstorming on my part for a future novel.
As of now I think I’ll be setting it in Libya. This will be my ‘Racine’s’ novel as Isabella Racine will be the main character and it will be about a major job her group is carrying out for a client.
Not sure what that job is yet but I do know there’s going to be a lot of other players involved, including the group this pic gave me the idea for.
It’s going to be a 5-man heavy weapons team. They’re from Russian. Still not sure if they’ll be Russian military or straight up mercenaries working for someone else. Each guy is going to be a beast in their own right. The amount of firepower they’ll be able to lay down is going to be scary.
The downside for that is that they’ll be moving really slow, so I don’t see them as being attackers or searchers for something but rather defenders.
Maybe something needed protecting so these 5 guys were sent in with as much firepower as they could carry. Maybe the guys don’t really know each other either and they were all pulled together because of their specialty with heavy weapons.
I can imagine an ‘Alamo’ type scene with these guys holding off waves of enemies for as long as they need to. Maybe they had to locate something and once they found it then they became defenders and had to hold out until an evac came for them and whatever it was they were sent to find. Maybe it was person? Or possibly an item.
Lots of different ways we could go with this. And we haven’t even started on who the guys are, who’s in charge, who hired them, etc.
But like I said, still in the early planning stages. Lots of time to figure it out. ?
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