Full Assault Mode: A Delta Force Novel by Dalton Fury

Author:Dalton Fury [Fury, Dalton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Espionage, Terrorism, Thriller
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-05-13T05:00:00+00:00

Charlotte, North Carolina

Sitting rather uncomfortably on the hotel carpet, Kolt could sense that the two terrorists to his left, Joma and Farooq, were wondering how Kolt—rather, Kolt acting as Timothy Reston—knew so little about the security procedures at his workplace. How he seemed to know exactly how to slip the authorities, had all the answers about that, but little else. When questioned about it, Kolt credited a lifetime of shoplifting cigarettes from the local drugstores and slipping the law, but Cherokee Power Plant was obviously harder to handle.

They had been at it for five and a half hours by now. Empty pizza boxes were stacked by the front door and jugs of water were at each of their sides. It was almost 2 A.M., and it had been an exhausting night of planning in a local hooker hotel, the thick aroma of unbathed men stuffed in-between the two double beds making it that much worse.

Kolt did his best to answer the questions, trying to steer the plan to his liking, but it was increasingly difficult by not actually being Timothy the insider. Of the three, only the terrorist they called Abdul seemed to offer countersuggestions and engage often.

Carlos wasn’t kidding that day at Footprints Jamaica in Restaurant when he asked Kolt if he was good with operating inside the homeland. That said, masquerading as one Timothy Reston, senior access officer for the nuclear power plant that was about thirty miles southwest of the hotel where the current planning session was under way, Kolt wasn’t actually operating. If not for Kolt’s dumb luck on the bus returning to Sana’a with Nadal the Romanian, no intelligence agency on earth would have a single lead on the nuke plot. The pocket-size notebook, accidentally dropped by Nadal as he made a hasty exit from the bus, was proving to be a treasure trove of intel.

Within six hours of the SEALs running into a trap, the CIA had run the ten-digit number handwritten inside the notebook through their database. They quickly determined that American citizen Timothy Reston had turned on his friends, coworkers, and country. And, even though he had taken the time to delete his Internet communication with Farooq, enough of it was recoverable to understand the link. The notebook also revealed several odd two-word phrases, what were assumed to be code words of some sort, that were screened through the CIA’s historical cable traffic and then bounced against the National Security Agency’s MAINWAY database of several trillion phone calls, as well as PRISM, its clandestine mass-electronic-surveillance data-mining program. And because the Romanian cell and the nuke plot were obviously major threats to the nation, they ran the code words through the X-keystroke software program. The software was able to analyze the myriad of data on the Internet and sift through it, picking out the bits regarding “persons of interest” under any number of parameters.

According to Carlos, all the suspected code words checked out, but one in particular didn’t register under the NSA’s DISHFIRE blanket analysis.

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