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Five years without wind.

Five years without stars.

Five years without seeing anything that hadn’t been built to hold him.

Sarah caught his hand.

“Come on.”

Wade stepped beyond the gate.

Snow touched his face.

He closed his eyes.

The mountain exploded behind us.

And Wade Parker took his first breath as a free man.

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ALAN MADOW

The mountain was dying.

Alan Madow felt every explosion through the floor of the helicopter.

Falcon had secured him to a web seat with his hands cuffed behind his back. Two operators guarded the open door.

Below them, Black Site Theta disappeared beneath smoke and snow.

Five years of secrets.

Five years of absolute control.

Gone.

Madow looked toward the landing zone.

The survivors emerged from the eastern tunnel.

Wade Parker.

Grant Barrett.

Jackson Cole.

Luke Dawson.

Eric Hale.

Men he had declared dead.

Men he had buried beneath the mountain.

Living proof of Project Nightfall.

Shadow Division surrounded them.