Closure (Jack Randall, #1)

by Randall Wood

There were two cell phones, both prepaid, with plenty of minutes, and untraceable.

He tried a few tricks he had learned in sniper school. Tickling the roof of his mouth with his tongue sent a shiver through him and woke his brain up.

“Homemade napalm?” Eric asked. “Yeah, it’s simple. You just mix equal parts gasoline and dish soap and stir till you get a thick, sticky mess. Put it in a glass jar with a lit fuse, and it’ll

stick and burn to whatever you throw it at.

His phone had a priority number, meaning he would not be dropped by the carrier due to call volume. It did nothing to boost signal strength, however.

It was against HRT’s policy to take non-team members on any mission without approval,

Two large diameter ropes lay coiled and ready to kick over the sides.

The state of Texas holds 166,911 inmates in its prisons. Approximately 111,830 are repeat offenders.

Center-mass, as they used to say in his army days. In war time, a soldier shot for the largest part of the enemy’s body: center of the chest. In a hostage situation, death had to be instantaneous or the hostage-taker may still have time to pull the trigger on his hostage, the brain stem at

the base of the skull then being the preferred target.

When I was training at Quantico, we were doing the driving exercises in Hoover City. You know, the surround the bank with cars thing? I always got in trouble because I forgot to leave myself a way out when I parked. I was so busy thinking secure-the-perimeter that I forgot how to leave an escape for myself. If this guy is in there, then I’ll bet good money he has a few ways out.

With her other hand placed over the victim’s vocal cords, she applied pressure to move the windpipe toward the back of his neck. This also served to cut off the esophagus, should the patient suddenly vomit.

Ron pushed the tube in until it was at the 23-centimeter mark printed on the side. He then pressed the 10cc syringe he had attached beforehand to inflate the bulb on the end of the tube, thereby securing it from anything foreign that might try to enter the lungs.

letting his jaw drop open to improve his hearing.

IV fluids, fluids that did not carry oxygen.