The Terminal List (Terminal List, #1)
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smartphones were “surveillance devices that also made phone calls,”
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he wasn’t dying to have this information on someone’s computer.
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Find yourself a used iPhone, maybe from Craigslist, where you have no relationship with the seller. Pay cash for it, toss the SIM card, and restore it to factory settings. You’ll need to set up a burner email to get an anonymous iTunes account. Do that from a library computer or one not associated with you.
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“Use cash to buy an iTunes gift card so you can download Signal. It’s a private messaging service from the app store.
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“It’s basically a texting app. You’ll need cell service to get Signal, so just use a prepaid SIM bought with cash. After that, don’t use cell again. Only use it over public Wi-Fi. Also download a VPN from Private Internet Access. Pay for it with a gift card you buy with cash. Keep Wi-Fi turned off when you are not actively using it. In fact, keep the phone turned off when you are not using it.
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Ka-Bar knife
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It was there that he discovered his real talent lay not in the analytics, nor the leadership of business, but rather in the art of relationships and the nurturing of those relationships until they could be monetized.
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Resco UDT dive watch
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unzipped his windbreaker, exposing a nylon Hill People Gear runner’s chest pouch that held the equipment he would need.
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He pulled on a pair of semi-clean jeans, a dark T-shirt, and his Salomon shoes.
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Glock 19 handgun.
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He secured the Glock into a BlackPoint Tactical mini-wing inside the waistband holster and slipped the holstered handgun between his boxers and jeans.
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Observe. Orient. Decide. Act.
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“Don’t shoot anybody unless you can’t drive away. Don’t forget that this truck can be a weapon. The Glock is loaded, and there’s no safety. Just point it and pull the trigger until they go down. Take a couple of deep breaths. You’re gonna be okay. Now it’s time to go. Stay alert and be safe.”
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Two is one, one is none. He favored the Glock 19 over the SIG he used at work due to its reliability, durability, and size.
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He pulled his 10.5-inch barreled M4 assault rifle from inside the hard-sided Pelican case and inserted a thirty-round PMAG into the mag well. Essentially a shorter version of the weapon that most U.S. troops used in combat,
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Reece would have loved to be running a suppressor from SilencerCo,
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Krieghoff K-80 Crown Grade Sporting model 12-gauge shotgun.
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Remington 1100
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Reece had set aside a week for surveillance, only to discover that his target readily broadcast his every movement to the world via social media. It was if he were saying, “Here I am, come and kill me.”
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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
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people in his lineage had been good at fighting to defend the tribe and at providing sustenance for their families. Killing was not so much about taking a life, it was about sustaining life: the lives of your countrymen, your unit, your family, yourself.
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Strider SMF folding knife
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We are a religion of peace that some have hijacked for their own self-serving, destructive means.
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Heckler & Koch Mk 24 Mod 0 handgun, and threaded on the long black suppressor. This .45-caliber pistol was the smaller replacement for the old Mk23,
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She flew like a man but drank like a girl.
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curved blade of his razor-sharp Half-Face karambit knife,
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Dynamis Razorback belt knife from his waistband.
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CHAPTER 63 [Redacted X X X X X X X X X X X X X X] [Redacted X X X X X X] SENIOR CHIEF FRED STRAIN had sent the
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The Glock 43 was a compact, single-stack magazine version of the larger Austrian pistol that shared its 9mm chambering. Reece’s pistol had been extensively customized by Zev Technologies in Oxnard, California,
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black Arc’teryx fleece
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The explosion from the charge in the driveway split the SUV in half, turning the Capstone Security men into human mulch.
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far?” “Yes, but why don’t we take this?” Katie asked, pointing to an exquisitely restored 1973 two-tone forest green and alpine white Toyota FJ55 Land Cruiser parked next to the shed.