by Jeff Gulvin
Also: The people of Hailey, Idaho.
And:
Chief, for pulling me out of the fire.
GLOSSARY
AMIP area major incident pool
ARV armed-response vehicle
ASAC assistant special agent in charge
ATF Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (Bureau of)
ATO ammunitions technical officer
BLM Bureau of Land Management
Box 500 MI5
Box 850 MI6
CAD computer-aided dispatch
CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services
con-ex controlled explosion
CRO Criminal Records Office
DEROS date of estimated return from overseas
DPG Diplomatic Protection Group
DRA Defence Research Agency
DUI driving under the influence
ESLA Electro-static lifting apparatus
EOD Explosives Ordnance Disposal
Expo explosives officer
FEST Foreign Emergency Search Team
HAC Honourable Artillery Company
IED improvised explosive device
LCD liquid-crystal display
LED light-emitting diode
leg-att legal attaché (FBI).
MOE method of entry
NBC suit nuclear, biological and chemical warfare suit
NVGs night-vision glasses
OP observation point
PINS portable isotopic neutron spectroscopy
PNC Police National Computer
Prof close protection officer
RSO regional security officer
RSP render safe procedure
RVP rendezvous point
SFO specialist firearms officer
SIOC Strategic Intelligence Operations Center
SO3 Scenes of Crime
SO11 Directorate of Intelligence
SO12 Special Branch; also SB
SO13 Antiterrorist Branch
SO19 Tactical Firearms Unit
TPU timing and power unit
TSU Technical Support Unit
UCA undercover agent
About the Author
Jeff Gulvin is the author of nine novels and is currently producing a new series set in the American West. His previous titles include three books starring maverick detective Aden Vanner and another three featuring FBI agent Harrison, as well as two novels originally published under the pseudonym Adam Armstrong, his great-grandfather’s name. He received acclaim for ghostwriting Long Way Down, the prize-winning account of a motorcycle trip from Scotland to the southern tip of Africa by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. The breadth of Gulvin’s fiction is vast, and his style has been described as commercial with just the right amount of literary polish. His stories range from hard-boiled crime to big-picture thriller to sweeping romance.
Half English and half Scottish, Gulvin has always held a deep affection for the United States. He and his wife spend as much time in America as possible, particularly southern Idaho, their starting point for road-trip research missions to Nevada, Texas, or Louisiana, depending on where the next story takes them.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1998 by Jeff Gulvin
Cover design by Barbara Brown
978-1-4804-1835-6
This edition published in 2013 by Open Road Integrated Media
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