Vengeance (Rogue Warrior Series Book 12) by Richard Marcinko

Author:Richard Marcinko [Marcinko, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thrillers, War & Military, Literature & Fiction, Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller, Spies & Politics, Espionage, Crime
ISBN: 0743422775
Amazon: B000FCK6TS
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2005-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

11

I don’t know if you’ve seen Dog Day Afternoon, but if you have, you’ll recognize the situation. It’s an old Al Pacino movie without too much of a point that I can see, except that it’s based on a real incident that happened in New York City a number of years ago, when some punk bank robbers got caught trying to rob a bank and decided to take everyone inside hostage. It turns out New York City deals with this sort of situation all the time. They had a very similar hostage situation in 1983 or something, and yet another one in 1995. Probably correlates with sunspot activity.

Whatever. Mr. Murphy sure picked a hell of a time to stick it to us.

New York calls its tactical squad or SWAT team an “Emergency Response Unit.” It sounds almost benign, doesn’t it? The city is, after all, the capital of PC government. Whatever they’re called, though, the city’s team is actually pretty damn good. They train regularly, and even better, have enough situations to get on-the-job experience easily. Not that that’s better if you’re on the wrong end of the emergency, but you get my point.

Besides the sharpshooters, their hostage-negotiating team literally wrote the book on how to deal with these sorts of situations. The negotiators are more than good; they’ve given their spiel to SEAL Team Six and not been laughed out of the joint. It’s their track record that counts, and they have a long list of saves, everything from little old ladies to psychos whacked out because they forgot to take their little green pills. The negotiators’ philosophy is more than a little different than the typical SpecWar attitude—they’d rather talk than fight—but they’ve proven their worth in a number of situations. You need a lot of tools in your kit when things get tough, and sometimes a blunt object is not the way to go.

It should be, but it’s not.

Capel joined us near the police barricade as Trace finished giving me her situation report. “Building’s locked down,” he said, adding a few more details to Trace’s report. He’d come out of the building right after us, looking for Shadow or one of his minions. He’d passed the two robbers going in, or at least thought he had. He told me later he thought they looked a bit suspicious and wished he’d turned around and gone in after them. He might have stopped the robbery. Or maybe he would have been killed. Hard to say.

“What kind of assholes rob a bank across from a police station?” asked Trace.

“Maybe they’re with the NSA and they want to check our work,” I said. But actually I was thinking something very different—I wondered if these jackasses had been sent by Shadow.

Capel knows half the police department, including most of the Emergency Response officers and just about all the area commanders and the deputy police chief. He got us past the barricade and down the street, where two officers with a bullhorn were trying to communicate with the people inside.

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