We're sitting in a Gulfstream II, staring at a steroid-popped musclebound ex–NATO sniper in handcuffs. He looks out the window. We lift off from Monrovia, Liberia. That look of ennui on his face decays into selfpity, because he knows he's bound for longterm incarceration in the United States. He hasn't uttered a word about the irony. He and his part ner, Tim Vamvakias, a former U.S. Army military policeman, ew from Phuket, Thailand, to murder a Libyan sea captain and drug transporter turned informant and the DEA agent for whom he worked. The “Libyan informant” has just arrested him. The targets were a setup. So were the coordinators who supplied staged surveillance photos of the targets, a daily log of their movements, the opportune kill spot, and the French mercenary in charge of their West African transportation and the sup plier of silenced .22 caliber pistols and Heckler & Koch MP7s.
On that Gulfstream, the man opposite Dennis Gögel, the hired killer, is “Taj.” Taj is a superstar undercover DEA agent, working with the agency's elite and secretive 960 Group. Taj and the group's boss, Lou Milione, staged themselves as targets. Another pair of mercenaries just as dangerous as Gögel and Vamvakias have been arrested simulta neously in Tallinn, Estonia. Yet another team of killers, including their leader, Joseph “Rambo” Hunter — a retired US Army sniper trainer — is being apprehended at this very moment in Phuket. We have been dropped inside a complex operation in which ve separate undercover stings, involving three different nations' police forces in different parts of the world, all needed to be synchronized to conclude with arrests — simultaneously. That was so that none of LeRoux's teams could alert any of the others.
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