The Edge of Courage (A Red Team Novel Book 1) by Elaine Levine

Author:Elaine Levine [Levine, Elaine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Hippotherapy, Romantic Suspense, Terrorists, Military Romance, Wyoming Romance, Romantic Suspence, Soldier Returns Home, PTSD, Contemporary Romance
Published: 2012-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Downstairs, the guys settled around the room, some sitting on either of the two sofas, some leaning against the walls. Greer and Max turned their desk chairs to face the room instead of the long, white tables loaded with equipment. Owen closed the basement door. “Did you sweep the basement for bugs?” he asked Max.

“We’re clear,” Max said.

Owen nodded for Kit to begin the briefing. “Tremaine Industries provides security and intelligence services to various U.S. government agencies,” Kit said to Rocco. “They’ve been contracted to work on a case out this way involving an Afghan druglord whom Blade, Rocco, and I know quite well—Abdul Baseer al Jahni—and the Wyoming-based organized hate group he’s aligning himself with.” Kit looked at Rocco and Blade.

“Is al Jahni in the country?” Rocco asked.

“We think so. And his hate group of preference is the White Kingdom Brotherhood, or the WKBs.”

Kit sent a look around the room at the rest of the guys. “At the beginning of this year, the three of us, Blade, Rocco and I, executed a kill order to take out a warlord named Ghalib Halim. Rocco had been positioned to collect intelligence on him. Halim wasn’t merely a village elder, a fierce general, and a Taliban officer, he was also a pivotal link in Abdul Baseer al Jahni’s drug trafficking infrastructure. al Jahni replaced him with Amir Hadad. Amir’s a graduate from the University of Colorado. He is the one facilitating al Jahni’s partnership with the WKB to distribute al Jahni’s heroin here in the U.S.”

“What do we know about the WKB?” Kelan asked.

“They’re a white supremacist gang that’s thriving—in prisons and out—in Wyoming and nineteen other states including California, Florida, and Virginia,” Owen answered. “They have about ten thousand members nationally who are not currently incarcerated. They’re making alliances with any criminal group of any racial mix that helps them grow their power network, including the Mexican drug cartels and Afghan druglords.””

“I gave you the identities of the WKBers who got through to Ghalib Halim,” Rocco reminded Kit. “They bragged to us about getting men in their squad killed while on patrols so that they could be taken by Halim’s men. They caused some of the friendly fire incidents that hit the news. The bastards knew being captured was the only way to get close enough for a meeting with Halim. Their allegiance was only to the WKB, never to their units or their country.””

Rocco looked around at the team. No point telling them how easy it was to assume a false identity—they were all masters of that art. “I had the traitors branded before they left Halim’s hospitality. I wanted to be able to find them again if needed. And I made it clear that they were to make a similar mark on their brothers and associates—anyone Halim and al Jahni could trust once they came stateside.”

Kit slowly smiled, holding Rocco’s gaze. “What’s the mark?”

“A crescent moon and star right here,” Rocco said, pointing to the area below his left ear.

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