Execute Authority by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788637886
Publisher: Canelo Books
Published: 2019-11-29T00:00:00+00:00

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The minor success in Baltimore, combined with tacit approval from higher for the ongoing shadow operation and open cooperation with the presidential protection detail, supplied a much-needed boost to morale. It also gave Kolt the opportunity to recall the rest of Noble Squadron and read them in.

Despite Webber’s assertion that they had made the Secret Service look bad, SAIC Simmons seemed, if not contrite, then at least grateful for the unofficial assist in Baltimore. It probably helped that Raynor resisted the urge to remind Simmons that his earlier attitude had nearly cost the president his life. Special Agent Todd Kearney was assigned to act as a training liaison, and because Raynor was now able to coordinate directly with the protective service instead of sneaking around behind their backs, he was able to implement a five-on, four-off troop rotation, which was fortunate since there was little actual work for any of them to do.

It was another week before POTUS left the safety of the White House, this time for a jaunt to the West Coast to visit San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. The outing gave the squadron a chance to satisfy the notional conditions of the training exercise and conduct a search of every rooftop and balcony within two thousand meters using fresh satellite imagery, Predator overhead coverage, and cell phone intercepts, all courtesy of Brian Kelly from the SCIF. This yielded nothing interesting. Likewise, a recce of each and every location where POTUS would be in the open yielded nothing actionable. An unplanned visit to Houston, New Orleans, and Biloxi, prompted by heavy flooding in the wake of a category three hurricane, was likewise uneventful.

Raynor was acutely aware of the ticking clock. He had nothing to show for his efforts, and Simmons was becoming increasingly territorial, even antagonistic. Worse, the nationwide manhunt for the sniper and his still unidentified accomplice was going nowhere. None of the leads generated in Baltimore had panned out. They had no video imagery of the would-be assassins, but the pair likely would have been careful to avoid looking at the cameras, keeping their heads tilted down at all times so that the visors of the caps they wore hid their faces. The DNA and fingerprints recovered from the shooting blind on the rooftop had yielded no matches.

Raynor wasn’t sure what to make of Shiner’s accomplice. Everything Raynor had heard about Shiner over the years, which admittedly was mostly rumor and hearsay, indicated that he was a loner. Raynor had assumed that he had been acting alone in Greece, but now he wasn’t so sure. Was the other man his spotter? His apprentice? His employer, perhaps?

Which raised the further question of motive. The working theory was that Revolutionary Struggle had hired Miric for the assassination of the Greek PM, but who was calling the shots now?

With less than two weeks to go, Raynor was facing the very real likelihood that he would never know the answer. There was zero chance that he would be

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