Blood and Water by Cole Pitcher

Author:Cole Pitcher [Pitcher, Cole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Becky Gidney
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty Six

Langley, Virginia, USA

“What do you mean you lost them?” screamed Hogg.

“They are a pair of fucking civilians, and one of them is a fucking kid. Doesn’t say a fucking lot for your team, does it?”

“Sir, with all due respect”, replied Brad Anderson, Head of the infamous Special Activities Division or SAD for short.

“Don’t fucking start that shit with me, Anderson. By saying it, it’s fucking clear that you have no respect which I already know, but without me, you have no fucking way of paying your mortgage so get to the fucking point.”

“They had help. Which sir… you did not brief us on. Two of my best agents are now incapacitated as a result of that gap in intelligence, sir.”

“Be very careful, Anderson, how this conversation progresses.”

Anderson paused.

Hogg exhaled. He was the one that needed to be careful here. He had used off-book operators up to now, but as soon as he got a ping from one of the phones and realised his prey was in Morocco, he had to act quickly and that meant official agency assets out of Tangier. He had rushed things with hindsight and so hadn’t briefed Anderson with regards to Di Angeli, or ‘El Loco’.

“OK, let’s both pause a beat. Tell me the situation with the two agents. Exactly.”

“They were both shot with precision from a range of about sixty yards. Both shot in the wrist and the ankle. To locate areas not covered by body armour requires extraordinary skill, executed under pressure. Both were out of action instantly. No brass at the scene but 9mm rounds caused the injuries.

Hogg breathed.

“Shit; that can only be one person. I didn’t think she would expose herself so easily. It can only be El Loco.”

“El Loco. You are joking. She’s dead. Moscow op went south.”

“No. We burned her. She had a red notice but she escaped.”

“Sir, I don’t mean to state the obvious, but El Loco was one of the best operators we ever had in SAD. The intel that she knows, of some of our blackest ops, is almost encyclopedic. Why have we not recalled all those assets? Shit is right, deep shit. That’s over two hundred assets.”

“El Loco is many things, but she is first and foremost a fucking patriot. There is zero risk of her burning U.S. assets.”

“But she brought down, expertly I might add, two of my best men. She discharged those shots under fire with clinical location accuracy, collecting her brass and doing it at rapid speed. Not a lot of patriotism there.”

“The difference is that they were shooting at her. Once you cross that line then you have to finish the job, or you get taken off the board. Anyway, the main thing is, we know her Achilles heel now: her child. She has been off the grid, a complete ghost, for four years. Not a sniff and now she breaks cover immediately. That is where we start. Well, this is where you start. This is now priority number one and now you know what we are dealing with.

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