2026-11-08 17:00:42"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
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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.
Chapter 069
The security door swung open with a heavy clunk, and the fluorescent lights came on in sequence, one bank after another, flooding the room with clean white light.The walls were covered in weapons.Long guns on horizontal mounts, arranged by type and caliber, running the full length of both sides of the room. Two rows of glass-fronted cabinets down the center held handguns, revolvers making up the majority, and the brand variety was comprehensive enough to cover most of what the legitimate market produced and a fair amount of what it didn't. If there was a manufacturer with a meaningful market share anywhere in the world, something bearing their name was probably in this room.Philip walked in ahead of Soren and seemed to recover a degree of his professional composure simply by being in the space. He turned, gestured at the inventory around him, and said, "Would you like me to walk you through what we have?"Soren scanned the room once, then handed him the list.<
Chapter 068
The blue and red lights of the police cordon threw shifting color across the facade of The Mans Bar, painting the crime scene tape and the wet pavement in alternating pulses. Officers moved in and out of the building in pairs, and the street had been closed at both ends.Ghost Wolf walked the length of the main corridor alone, stepping over the bodies without looking down at them, his attention on the walls. The blood patterns. The entry angles. The spent casings distributed across the floor in a way that told a precise story about movement and positioning. He read it the way other people read text, automatically and without effort, and by the time he reached the end of the corridor he had reconstructed the sequence of events well enough to picture it."Most of them were killed with a single headshot before they knew where the fire was coming from," he said. "Even in London, you don't find many people who shoot like that."Behind him, a MI6 field officer said, "All in
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