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With the drawing in hand, Reece returned to the couch and flipped the paper over. He took a pencil from the coffee table and began carefully writing a list of names on the back: JOSH HOLDER MARCUS BOYKIN SAUL AGNON STEVE HORN
He was unhindered by rules, regulations, laws, or societal norms. He was on the warpath, and his appetite for revenge was insatiable.
Reece was standing over Holder’s supine form to determine the best angle for his shot, considering it was supposed to look like a suicide, when Holder emitted a surprising gasp and his torso catapulted upward to a sitting position, his eyes opened wide. The man’s sudden movement startled Reece, who hesitated for a brief moment before shoving the HK’s suppressor directly into Holder’s open mouth—he could feel Holder’s teeth shatter from the violent intrusion—and quickly squeezed the trigger.
The office door opened suddenly and his assistant Kelsie burst through with a look of panic on her face. “Mr. Horn, I’m so sorry but that was Detective Weatherly on the phone. He said that Josh Holder was found dead in his apartment early this morning. They say he shot himself. He was always so sweet to me, Mr. Horn.”
On a hunch, he typed Boykin’s name into the search bar on his desktop computer. The first link sent chills down his spine. www.wyomingnews.com STAR VALLEY MAN KILLED IN HUNTING ACCIDENT Marcus Boykin, 57, of Star Valley Ranch was found dead in his vehicle…
“Hello, who is this?” Mike Tedesco closed his eyes. This was to be his penance. “This is your executioner, you fucking disgrace. You wiped out my troop and my family, and you did it all for money and a promotion. I’ll see you in hell, motherfucker.” James Reece hit SEND on a second cell phone, connecting a call to the one strapped to Mike Tedesco. The phone received the incoming call and sent a burst of electrons to a cluster of wires leading to a blasting cap loaded with PETN. The blasting cap detonated and forced a high-explosive response from the 2.5 pounds of C-4 sewn inside the suicide
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Just a few more people to kill, and, if he was right about an approaching assault force, there would be one more name to add to the list.
In this game, you lived by the sword and died by the sword.
The men 150 yards away and below him knew that well. It was their turn to die by the sword.
Only one person on earth knew he was going to the cabin. Reece now knew the final name to add to his list.
An event in Iraq years earlier had caused Raife to leave the SEAL teams under circumstances no one but Reece fully understood.
“That went well,” he said. “The good old ‘mujahideen slam.’ And, we’re even still alive.” “Will wonders never cease,” Liz replied, obviously as relieved as he was.
had to get you here, Lorraine. It is nearly impossible to hide everything in today’s age of information. Someone who knows how to dig will find it, and in this case,” he said, pausing, “someone did.”
In front of the fire, sitting with Lorraine Hartley and Steve Horn, a brandy in one hand and what appeared to be a small box in the other, was Ben Edwards.
“Reece, how did you know Ben didn’t have that detonator connected? How did you know he wouldn’t blow my head off?” Reece paused, looked Katie in the eye, and over the sound of the wind, the propeller, and the rain, replied, “I didn’t,” before shutting the door and moving off at a run toward the marina.
Reece reached into his pocket and removed a Ziploc bag. Pausing, he slowly opened it and unfolded the paper within, drawing lines through the last of the names on his list. JOSH HOLDER MARCUS BOYKIN SAUL AGNON STEVE HORN CJNG, MEXICO ADMIRAL GERALD PILSNER MIKE TEDESCO J. D. HARTLEY LORRAINE HARTLEY LEONARD HOWARD HAMMADI IZMAIL MASOOD BEN EDWARDS He looked at the list without a hint of remorse. It was done.
Your biopsy came back and, under the circumstances, it is the best news that we could expect. Your tumor is what’s called a cerebral convexity meningioma, which is a very common and slow-growing lesion. Based on the type and location of the mass, I am very confident that I can remove it surgically. We are talking a seventy-five percent or better survival rate. It could be causing you headaches, which is nothing to be alarmed about. Please call us back and my assistant will schedule you an appointment for a follow-up. We can speak in more detail at my office. Again, sorry to have to leave this
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And finally, to those who live life in the shadows, holding the line, running to the sound of the guns.
