So she had to make that happen. How, was the question. Once they took him, she would be ready. Since Marianne had given her the evacuation plan, she knew exactly where the president would be taken en route to the motorcade. She’d spent her young career imagining all the different ways to distract a mark or plan a diversion. She had tried some different weapons, investigated different explosives, tested out certain poisons, all to prepare her for immediate and unforeseen scenarios. Today all of that planning would pay off. A couple years ago, she’d encountered a young Afghani bomb maker. He was very impressive. After the wars in the Middle East, his country had been left all but devastated. The American troops had pulled out way too soon, leaving the radical factions of his country to move back in and take over the nation. Eventually, the Americans returned but not before the damage had become so extensive the country was hardly recognizable. The years that followed were deadly. And still were to this day.
