2026-11-05 17:00:45The patrol officers had been easy enough to dismiss. Paul had given them the standard line about a gang dispute, kept his voice steady, and they'd moved on without asking too many questions. That was the thing about the Mans Crew's reputation in this neighborhood: it was useful even when the crew itself was no longer in a position to back it up.
He walked back down into the wine cellar with Soren's eyes on him the entire way.The MP5 came down onto the table with a solid clank. Sore
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The German Shepherd smelled him before it saw him.It had been hanging its front legs over the passenger window of a pink Beetle, barking at the queue of vehicles ahead, when something in the air changed and the dog turned its head. What it found looking back at it was a man with bloodshot eyes, a black leather jacket, an AR-15 slung over one shoulder, and the particular quality of stillness that large predators share with certain kinds of very dangerous people.The dog was back in its owner's lap before the next heartbeat.The elderly woman behind the wheel had been touching up her lipstick in a compact mirror. She lowered it and found Soren walking alongside her window, close enough to touch the glass. She opened her mouth. He raised one finger to his lips without looking at her, and kept walking.The checkpoint was seven vehicles ahead. Four officers were working the line, waving cars through one at a time, running the standard stop-and-check procedure with th
Chapter 074
The rotor noise was close enough now that Soren could feel it in his chest.He had the accelerator pinned and it wasn't enough. The AS365 Dauphin helicopter tracking him along the riverbank had settled into a parallel course off his left side, close enough that he could see the cabin door open and the shooter brace an L119A1 against the frame. Soren took his foot off the accelerator in irregular pulses, breaking the vehicle's rhythm, and drew the Glock 19 with his right hand. He fired through the open window. The rounds were enough to make the pilot pull altitude, which bought seconds but not distance. The police vehicles behind him used those same seconds to close the gap.The intersection three hundred meters ahead was a wall of blue lights. More than a dozen patrol cars, at least forty officers. Driving straight at that line wasn't a decision, it was a conclusion.Then he saw the Underground sign.He made the turn without deliberating, mounted the curb, and st
Chapter 073
The three Land Rovers idled at the curb while the agents finished their briefings around Dax Carter, each one competing for his attention as he walked toward the vehicles."This is the agenda for today's session. The Prime Minister will be raising questions about the current situation with MI6. You'll want to be prepared.""Sir, Ghost Wolf just reported in. There are signs of Nighthawk's presence in Tulip Grove. Investigation is ongoing.""The CIA is requesting a copy of our Somalia intelligence package..."Dax moved through all of it without expression, without acknowledgment, his face carrying the particular blankness of a man who had spent decades absorbing bad news and had long since stopped letting it register on the outside. He reached the lead Land Rover and put his hand on the door.Then something made him look up.Across the street, the passenger window of a parked jeep was open, and the man behind it was watching him with the flat, unhurried a
Chapter 072
"I wouldn't move if I were you," Soren said, keeping his voice level. "My trigger finger isn't particularly steady right now, and I'd hate for an accident to inconvenience everyone."He walked Philip backward through the villa's rear door one step at a time, the AR-15 pressed against the man's side, his eyes moving continuously across the faces of the guards fanned out across the rear courtyard. They retreated as he advanced, giving ground without being asked, their weapons up but their angles bad. Nobody wanted to be the one who pulled the trigger and hit their employer.Soren scanned the courtyard and found what he was looking for: three jeeps parked in a row near the far wall, the same vehicles from the previous loop. He picked the nearest guard who wasn't directly in his line of movement and nodded toward the vehicles."You. Start one of those and bring it to the gate."The guard's expression made his feelings clear, but he looked at Philip's face, read the s
Chapter 071
The estate gate at Tulip Grove looked exactly as he remembered it.Soren stood on the pavement outside in his black jacket and waited, hands in his pockets, posture relaxed. The call had gone through without complications. He had introduced himself as a referral from Paul Mans, stated his intended arrival time, and Philip had accepted the appointment without asking how a stranger had come to have his private number. In Philip's line of work, introductions through existing clients were a standard channel. It would have been stranger to question it.The gate opened after a few minutes. Two guards came out first, moving to either side of the entrance and scanning the street behind Soren with the practiced efficiency of men who did this multiple times a day. They checked the pavement in both directions, looked at the parked vehicles along the curb, and found nothing that concerned them. One of them gestured for Soren to follow.Just inside the gate, a third guard stood wi
Chapter 070
The radio chatter came in clipped and professional, each transmission overlapping the last."Alpha Team in position, making entry now.""Rear garden secure. Bravo Team advancing through the back.""Second floor clear, no sign of target. Moving to third floor. Bravo Team, begin clearing ground floor rooms immediately.""Bravo Team copies."The rear door came off its frame with a sharp crack, and the six-man stack poured through in tight formation, moving down the service corridor toward the armory at a controlled pace. Point man up, spacing correct, weapons tracking the angles.Then the armory door opened a crack, and something round rolled out across the floor."Grenade! Back, back!"The stack reversed into the corridor bend, pressing into the corner as the white smoke bloomed and spread, filling the passage from wall to wall in seconds. The team leader read it immediately: the target was in that room, using the smoke to mask his exit angle.
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