By Tom Clancy
Spain is a kingdom poised to endure its worst inner strife in centuries. convinced well-placed Spanish diplomats feel it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. all of the United States and Spain need to do is use how to sidestep it. prior to they could, an Op-Center consultant is assassinated in Madrid on her strategy to a most sensible mystery assembly. Now all fears are proven. somebody very strong desires one other Spanish civil war--no subject what the expense.
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Aideen swallowed hard and entered the number. She asked to be connected with Darrell McCaskey's room. She slipped a simple scrambler over the mouthpiece, one that would send an ultrasonic screech over the line, deafening any taps. A filter on McCaskey's end would eliminate the sound from his line. Aideen did know what was at stake here. The fate of Spain, of Europe, and possibly the world. And whatever it took, she did not intend to come up short again. m. C. When they were at Op-Center headquarters at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland or at Striker's Base in the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, the two forty-five-year-old men were Op-Center's Deputy Director, General Michael Bernard Rodgers, and Colonel Brett Van Buren August, commander of Op-Center's rapid-deployment force.
Liz had told the small group that in the instant of shock, a person's body temperature, blood pressure, and muscle tone all crash and it takes a moment for the survival instinct to kick in. Attackers count on that instant of paralysis, Liz had said. But understanding what had happened didn't help. Not at all. It didn't lessen the ache and the guilt that Aideen felt. If she'd moved an instant sooner or been a little more heads-up-by just a heartbeat, that's all it would have taken-Martha might have survived.
I told you when you accepted the position that if you work for me you have to do things my way. And I prefer end runs. Skirt the main force. Finesse the enemy rather than launch an assault. " "I understand," Aideen said. "Like I said, I may be new at this type of situation. But I'm not green. " Martha relaxed slightly. "Okay. " She watched as Aideen tossed the tattered towelette into a trash can. "Are you okay? " Martha sniffed the air. " She scowled. " "I know you can't and I'm truly sorry," Aideen said.