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As Will Robie stared out the plane window, he knew the next twenty-four hours could possibly be his last ones on earth. === NSA-level wipe of the flash drive, tantamount to smashing it flat with a brick then setting it afire. The ones and…
The Underground had suffered a terrorist attack on July 7, 2005, when terrorists had blown themselves up on three separate train cars. A fourth device had been detonated on a London bus. In all, fifty-two victims were killed. === Stealth…
It was UMP versus UMP. But not really. It wasn’t just about the hardware. A gun was a gun. The same models worked pretty much the same. What really mattered was the software. And the shooter was always the software. === === And she was…
It was a war Reel had finally realized halfway over the Atlantic her side could never really win. We kill ten and twenty more take their place. === “Eastern Plains. Westernmost section of the Great Plains where it notches into Nebraska.…
When I asked what he did, he just said he pushed paper across his desk. === Mentoring, he said it was. Printed up pamphlets and fliers and kept talking away, mostly to the young men around here who got nothing in their future ’cept the…
It’s a 1966 Cadillac DeVille convertible. It’s got a 340-horsepower overhead cam V8. I think it actually gets minus miles to the gallon. It’s eighteen and a half feet long, which makes it pretty much bigger than my first home here. === I…
“Yes, they’re free. To live in chaos. Too many cooks in the kitchen. Too many people with a place at the table. Too many voices in the room. People are idiots. They don’t know what they want other than to get as much as they can at the…
But hey, I figure if they’re that rich they must know what they’re doing. And it’s not my place to second-guess somebody who made that much money. They must be smart, right?” “Or they inherited it,” pointed out Malloy. “Or they get to…
“Any conversation with that man you can guarantee that he found out more about you than you ever did about him. Except you had no idea he did until long after it happened.” === “Well, places like this are to ensure that highly successful…
I mean he’s a big, strong guy but he’s soft too. I mean you can just tell. Punch him in the nose and he’ll go crying to his momma. === “I have no problem with rich people,” said Robie. “I’ve met rich and poor and people in the middle of…
Right now she didn’t know which was more dangerous, Iraq or eastern Colorado. === What was the end game here? You were always supposed to have one. You never started a mission without a concrete goal firmly in mind. === “How does a…
Heroin, coke, and pills are bulky. And easily tracked. Fentanyl on the other hand? You can ship enough Fentanyl to OD a hundred thousand people in a manila envelope. Two flakes of the stuff are lethal to an adult. === “You won’t find it.…
“You really hate the guy.” “Hate doesn’t really cut it.” === “This is the JV team,” said Robie. “We left the varsity down below.” === “Remorse for what? I’ve done nothing wrong.” “You call drug trafficking and murder right?” said Robie.…
It would have been difficult to say who was the better shot, Robie or Reel. It might have depended on the day in question. But this day, not one sniper in the world had more motivation to bring down his target than Will Robie. === “I…