The Hit List (Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller Book 16) by Elle Gray

Author:Elle Gray [Gray, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Blake Wilder FBI Mystery
Publisher: Elle Gray
Published: 2022-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

FBI Mobile Command Center; Grimley, TX

The sky is cast in blazing hues of orange and red as the sun slips toward the horizon. The parking lot of the strip mall around us is buzzing with activity as the FBI SWAT team gears up and gets ready to move. We’d gotten a call from an LEO a couple of hours ago telling us they’d spotted the F-150 we had the BOLO out on and that it’s currently parked in the driveway of a house tucked into the middle of a quiet residential street.

Grimley PD had a plainclothes team drop an anchor on the street to keep an eye on the situation and let us know if our target is on the move. So far, we’ve had no word from them, which means our guy is still in the house. With civilians everywhere, it’s never ideal to have this sort of confrontation in the middle of a residential area, but we have to play the cards we’re dealt. Our guy is in that house, so into that house we go.

A block away from the target house, my team and I are standing in the command tent with Captain Jerome O’Neal, commander of the Dallas FO’s SWAT team, and his lieutenant, Dan Pershing. O’Neal is a large man—easily six-two or three and seemingly just as wide. The man looks like he should be a starting middle linebacker. His goatee is dark and shot through with gray, he doesn’t have a strand of hair atop his ebony head, and his eyes are unsettlingly direct and piercing. If the word intimidation took on a human form, it would be Jerome O’Neal.

His partner in crime, Lt. Pershing, is a carbon copy of O’Neal. Like, an exact replica. The only difference between them is that Pershing is white. Looking at the two of them is like looking at a living photograph and its negative.

“We have teams in the alley behind the house that will breach at the same time we’re making entry from the front,” O’Neal says.

On the table in front of us is the printed layout of the target house and the neighborhood around it. O’Neal has a telescoping pointer with a red tip and is using it to indicate where the teams are being stationed.

“Collapsing from both sides simultaneously will allow us to contain the threat by not leaving him anywhere to go,” Pershing adds.

Jesus. They even sound alike. They’re both efficient, and when they speak, it’s in a clipped, curt, “just the facts, ma’am,” manner. I clock the rings on their fingers and can’t help but wonder if they speak to their wives in the same way.

“What about the sides of the house? He could, in theory, make a break for it through a side door, couldn’t he?” Mo asks.

“We’ll have rover agents positioned on the east and west sides of the dwelling,” Pershing replies. “He won’t be able to slip the snare. Not even in theory.”

“You sound pretty sure of yourself,” Astra says.

“We’re very good at what we do, Agent Russo.

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