Curtis and his two men had spent a mostly fruitless day attempting mobile surveillance of some men who had spent a few hours outside of the walls of Maadi Land and Sea. Kolt brought his team into the conference room and Curtis came in a moment later. Kolt said, “We took a look at Rhine and Stone ...
The happy mounds, Korean graveyards crafted out of giant grass-covered dirt piles that resembled upside-down half grapefruits, where the dead were entombed in a seated position, provided their only cover for several hundred meters. “That took longer than I wanted it to,” he whispered to his mates...
In his left hand, a sterling silver coffee mug with the CIA logo perfectly engraved on one side, filled with Jacobs Kronung finest dark roast, the wrist surrounded by a platinum and ice-blue Cosmograph Daytona Rolex. The coffee mug was a gift from his former employer, the watch a gift to himself....
As he turned at the southeast corner of the compound’s wall and began heading north, he took a moment to look through the thermal optic he carried in his right hand. A white image appeared in the darkness through its lens, directly ahead. It was a sentry, he was in the way of Kolt’s progress to t...