Course of Action: The Rescue: Jaguar Night\Amazon Gold by Lindsay McKenna - Course of Action: The Rescue: Jaguar Night\Amazon Gold
Author:Lindsay McKenna - Course of Action: The Rescue: Jaguar Night\Amazon Gold [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-08-01T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 2
The intel briefing and mission planning for Operation Viper took place in the squat, green-tin-roofed building that served as the Iquitos Naval Base’s command and control center. The CC reflected the dollars the United States had poured into this region to help stop the flow of drugs from Colombia, just two hundred kilometers to the north. One glance told Jack the equipment was state of the art. Wall-mounted screens tracked the status of boats patrolling the rivers and squads trekking through the jungle. Banks of computers sent and received digital data, while radios crackled with voice transmissions. Chief Dawson asked the ensign serving as the duty officer to give Jack a quick tour of the facility, then escorted him to the briefing room where the rest of the team had assembled.
A black-bearded giant of a man strode up to Jack and delivered a powerhouse punch in the arm. “Halliday, you ole coon dawg! Good to see you.”
“You, too, Bear.”
Trained as a long shooter—the Delta Force label for sniper—Ed “Bear” Denton could pick a flea off a goat at a thousand yards. He and Jack had worked several ops together, most recently augmenting the Secret Service during a presidential visit to Africa.
Jack had also worked with the second man on his team. Although all Delta Force operators could breach doors or blow airplane hatches with minimal collateral damage, Nate Hodgekiss took demolitions to a fine art. The long, tall string bean from North Dakota was in constant demand with the CIA, FBI and DEA.
Jack knew the final member of his team only by reputation, but that was enough to make him extremely happy that Marvin White Feather was on his side instead of the bad guys’.
Next he met the four-man Peruvian commando squad going in with them. He’d studied background briefs of each commando and was pleased to see they looked as tough and battle hardened in person as they did on paper.
That left the two remaining members of Dawson’s crew. One was a local, a Peruvian with broad cheekbones and intelligent eyes who’d grown up on the Amazon and knew all its moods. His U.S. counterpart was a Special Warfare boat operator with the inevitable nickname “Boats,” who damned near gave Jack a heart attack.
When he reached out to shake hands with the man, something small and furry jumped from Boats’ sleeve to Jack’s palm. Somehow he managed to control the instinctive impulse to squeeze his fist and crush whatever it was. Still, his heart got in an extra beat or two as he stared down at the tiny puff of white-and-gray fur hanging on to his middle finger with a death grip. Slowly, he raised his hand and came eye to eye with a creature that couldn’t have been more than two inches long.
“What the hell is this?”
“That’s Snowball,” Boats replied. “Our mascot.”
“He’s a pocket monkey,” Chief Dawson explained. “Or more correctly, a pygmy marmoset. The smallest living primate in the world. He dropped into our boat during a patrol a few months back and decided to stay.
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