Previously, in BLACK DOOR: In the parking lot of a Travelodge motel in Bloomington, Indiana, the team has engaged an army of giant, man-eating spiders…

The next several hours were a grueling plod. Three men down, evacuated to medical support via the helicopter. Washington was walking wounded so she stuck with the team, separated out with two other men to do hard target searches of the area of operations. Another four men under Sizemore went door-to-door in the motel to check on residents and answer their questions. They answered those questions with lies, a concocted story about rabid raccoons. They stonewalled civilians who knew better. Grace and Garrett, bleary-eyed from lack of sleep, conferred with police at the margins of the AO, ensuring their cooperation in the rac...

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