The Agent Next Door
“John glanced down at the clock on the dashboard of his Range Rover as he finally pulled into his driveway.
6:47 A.M.
A damned long, miserable night. Maybe the most miserable of his career.
Then again, maybe not.
After all, he hadn’t spent the midnight hours hunkered down in a rocky hill cave, taking heavy artillery fire like he had in Kandahar, or wondering if every step he took brought him into the crosshairs of a sniper’s scope like in Mosul. Instead, he’d worked through the night in the rela...tive safety of a modern skyscraper, trapped in a room filled with computers and audio equipment and real-time digital displays.
Still, it hadn’t been a great night.
When the mission he was in command of had crashed and burned, he’d been no damned use to anyone. He was nothing but another suit behind a desk listening as his people put their lives on the line. It had torn him apart inside, not being able to fight alongside of his agents, to take his fair share of the risk.
Heading the mission to bring down the Mustaar, an Estonian-based gun trafficking organization, had been John’s first real assignment in his new position.MoreLess
6:47 A.M.
A damned long, miserable night. Maybe the most miserable of his career.
Then again, maybe not.
After all, he hadn’t spent the midnight hours hunkered down in a rocky hill cave, taking heavy artillery fire like he had in Kandahar, or wondering if every step he took brought him into the crosshairs of a sniper’s scope like in Mosul. Instead, he’d worked through the night in the rela...tive safety of a modern skyscraper, trapped in a room filled with computers and audio equipment and real-time digital displays.
Still, it hadn’t been a great night.
When the mission he was in command of had crashed and burned, he’d been no damned use to anyone. He was nothing but another suit behind a desk listening as his people put their lives on the line. It had torn him apart inside, not being able to fight alongside of his agents, to take his fair share of the risk.
Heading the mission to bring down the Mustaar, an Estonian-based gun trafficking organization, had been John’s first real assignment in his new position.MoreLess
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