Heart of Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-10-27T03:48:18.945000+00:00

Chapter Ten

Orion Security Headquarters

Alexandria, Virginia

Clancy Flynn thumbed through the job offers, the fruit of his subtle campaign testing the market waters. He’d wanted to see what the market was like once a stable SL was available, and holy shit, the market was booming.

He was going to make a fucking fortune.

He leafed through the offers for bids. He’d discreetly let his primary clients know that there was a possibility he could do security jobs in half the time using a third of the personnel. Security was a crowded market, getting more crowded by the day. The world was a dangerous place, but it was filling up fast with former soldiers. Plenty of manpower, highly trained, well-armed, tough. A lot of companies were springing up, vying for work.

Security cost money, though, and Flynn knew his corporations. Security was something corporations spent money on grudgingly. Shareholders didn’t like that item in the budgets because there was no return. By definition, security wasn’t an investment. Shareholders couldn’t get it into their greedy heads that security was the condition for investments. The thing that let them sit back, do no work, and rake in the money.

Flynn had let word get out that he had a new technology that would allow him to bid for work cheaply. He chose the companies he contacted carefully. They wouldn’t be curious about the technology, all they cared about was the bottom line. Most of the work would be done far from the view of the suits in the boardrooms of corporate headquarters.

They bit.

He stared at the spreadsheet, which represented more money than he ever thought he’d see in his lifetime. They were listed there, like low-hanging fruit.

A one-year contract for security for gas pipeline construction from the Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan to Baku in Azerbaijan, seven million dollars. A one-year contract for security for new Brazilian-owned oil wells in Iraq, ten million dollars. A one-year contract for timber operations on an Indonesian island known for Muslim terrorism, five million dollars.

If SL had worked, he could have used teams of ten men on each job, tops: $100K per operator, three million dollars. It would have left him with a profit of nineteen million dollars. In one year. He would double that the year after, once it had proven its worth on the market.

Lee had told him that he was sure they had the right formula. He had found something in Lucius Ward’s head that had been the key to the correct dosage. It would have been the very first time something in Lucius Ward’s head would have been useful to Flynn.

Sanctimonious bastard.

Ward had been tripping Flynn up his entire military career. Flynn had always outranked him because he knew how to play the Pentagon game, but Ward had been a slippery bastard, always outshining him. Fucking hero. And then setting up Ghost Ops. Fucker had placed himself completely outside the military command structure and had become untouchable.

The Ghost Ops team had been damned effective and Ward had grown in power and prestige.

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