Pushed to the Edge (SEAL Team 14) by Mathis Loren

Author:Mathis, Loren [Mathis, Loren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

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Hey Mark.”

Mark looked up from the new round of intelligence briefings that he had received this morning on the Haqqai network. Standing at the doorway to his office on the base was his superior officer, Captain Sean Cahill.

Cahill was only four years older than Mark and the two men had served on the same team when they were active Navy SEALs back in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Having been born and bred in South Boston, Cahill still carried the thick Southie accent at times—usually when stressed. On those occasions he used “broad a” sounds. Also, words ending in –er usually came out of Cahill’s mouth sounding like they ended with an “a.”

“Hey Sean, what’s up?”

“We’re getting reports in from all over the wire that Richard Henning and his security team were just gunned down outside of a hotel in Dallas.”

Shit. “Is he still alive? What the hell happened?” This was definitely not the news that Mark had wanted to hear this morning.

“Admiral Taylor is calling a special meeting in one hour with all of the ranking officers and select members of the FBI’s counterintelligence unit to discuss this mess. So far, Henning is alive, but barely. Someone shot him multiple times in the chest, abdomen, leg, and arm. The three bodyguards that he had with him at the time of the shooting were shot to death. This shit is going to be all over every major and minor news station in the next five minutes.”

“Damn. So basically someone tried to execute him.”

“Yeah, looks like. It for sure wasn’t some random ‘street’ crime. He was likely the main target of the shooting. We’re all going to be going over the reports your intelligence contact sent you as well as some additional intel that has just come down. One hour, Boardroom C,” Cahill repeated before he exited Mark’s office.

An hour later, Mark sat around a large oval table with five other unit commanders and senior Navy leadership. Already seated at one end of the table, Admiral Taylor watched as the men filed into the room. Sitting alongside him was Jacob Ryland, acting director of the FBI, and Michael Gerard, the Assistant Director of the FBI counterterrorism division.

As soon as Mark sat down, he noticed that Gerard was glaring at him. Mark and Gerard had bumped heads on more than one occasion on previous missions. Believe it or not, the two men had actually been good friends at one time, ages ago. However, their friendship had evaporated soon after Mark had purloined the affections of his ex-wife Deborah from Gerard. Deborah had briefly dated Gerard prior to her marriage to Mark.

Mark returned the other man’s dark stare for a few seconds before refocusing on the meeting at hand. Everyone else’s eyes in the room focused in on the man who had called the meeting, Admiral Taylor.

Taylor was an imposing man in his early sixties with gray hair that was slowing turning white. He was Yale educated and had been in the military for four decades and had been integral in the counterinsurgency strategies employed by the U.

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