Bureaucratic sled dog that he was, Cox spent quite a lot of effort every day just trying to keep his job; he wasn’t the brightest pup in the litter. He ended up being used by smarter people with agendas, as I had seen with the NSA and bank adventure. Somewhere along the way, Shadow and her brother glommed on to him through the terrorist connection. They started feeding him information, which helped him look good. I’m not precisely sure how that got started—not even Karen could find out, and if she can’t find something out, it can’t be found—but they must have supplied him with something related to a drug deal in the City of Sin, and I suspect that at that point he reacted with so much enthusiasm about screwing Las Vegas that they knew they had their man. They just had to reel him in.
Was he dirty? Or just a dupe?
Can’t tell you. I think he probably thought he could play both ends against the middle. I think he honestly wanted me at the port because he didn’t want the place blown up. I think he hated Las Vegas, but I don’t know that he hated it enough to fall in line with a terrorist plot to blow it up. I think he did realize that the terrorists were running drugs and smuggling all sorts of things like weapons in and out of the country, and I think he wanted to do something about it. He just wasn’t smart enough to do the right thing about it.
But that’s my opinion; you’ll have to form your own on that.
This much I know, because they told me: one of the du Bocs, or maybe both, killed him in Vegas. And the whole story of what happened between him and them died that night as well.
The FBI shut down the Bosnian company after the dust settled in Vegas. That’s the Fucked-up Bureau of Incompetents for you; they spring into action once it’s safely too late. Any day now they’ll be telling us that Abe Lincoln’s been shot and they think they know who did it.
The French were right about how the cells worked. What the French didn’t understand was how long these people had been working on this. Nearly a ton of Semtex had been installed in Starship Vegas, apparently by cells completely unrelated to the ones that tried to detonate it. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the du Bocs infiltrating the system and trying to use it for their own personal vengeance, it’s likely the radical ragheads would have succeeded. There would have been no dramatics on the top of the tower, no hesitation pushing the button. Two of the drivers of the gas-rigged trucks blew themselves up rather than let themselves be captured. Another gave it a good try, but the asshole hadn’t wired himself properly. I promise to do it for him as soon as he returns from whatever rock they’re going to hide him under for the next fifty or sixty years.
All of the cells that were involved were rounded up. That wasn’t a huge accomplishment: a good portion, including everyone who’d infiltrated the hotel’s security staff, were already dead, killed either by me or during the assault or in a last suicide pact in the bunker. Not one of the people who took over the hotel had been on any sort of watch list at all.
The funding network, the infrastructure that made this all possible—was still there, untouched. Inconvenienced a bit, with the import-export business down and the agency that doesn’t exist now wise to their methods, but the bottom line is: they’re still there. Osama, or whichever crazy asshole beyond him is calling the shots…still there.
In my view, their big mistake was importing the old gas. Tests the Army conducted on the canisters after the fact found that the stuff, though still nasty, had lost a good portion of its potency. There’s a lot worse stuff in train yards and truck depots and nuke plants all across America. Nobody wants to hear about it, though.
“It’s too damn depressing, Dick.”
“You’re becoming a pessimist.”
Let me be optimistic for a second; let me put on my positive-thinking hat: I am a mean, wrathful son of a bitch, and I am sure that’s the way the world really works.
Doom on us if we don’t get wise to it. Ah, for the peace and quiet of a small war!!!
Index
Air America
Air Force Air Command and Staff College
Air Force One
AK-47
Alexander, Brandy
Alexander, Tiffany “Tiff”
Barrett andon French missionon Las Vegas missionMarcinko onTrace onTremblay on al Qaeda
Alston, Horace S.
American Furniture Hauling
Americans Against Casino Gambling
Antiterrorist Awareness Task Force (ATATF)
Armstead, Rich
ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms). See also Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, and Firearms
*Bambi Killer
Barr, Julie
Barrett, Danny
at bank bombingon Blanchardon Borelandcell phone ofon container port missiondaughter ofon freight train missionon French missionon Homeland Securityon hospital missionon Las Vegas missionon LNG tankerson mall missionMarcinko andnuggets screened byon *Shadowon terrorist cellson *Topless Tangoon truck depot missionin Violence of Action Barrett, Ev
Beretta 92F
bin Laden, Osama
Blanchard, Max
Bluetooth
Boehm, Roy
Boomerang
Boreland, George
Brod Prevoz
*Brush Face
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. See also ATF
*Bureau Without a Clue
C-3, C-4 explosives
Capel, Dan
on bank robbery missionon container port missionon Las Vegas missionon LNG tankerson mall missionas Marcinko’s protectoron nuclear power plant missionoffice of Chlorcyan
chloride
CIA (Christians in Action)
Comte de Saxe, Maurice
Con Edison (Con Ed)
container ports
Cooper, Jeff
Coulson, Danny O.
Cox, Harold
Cox, Luke
on container port missiondeath ofdescription ofFairfield onon French missionon *His Swarthinessat Homeland Securityin Las Vegason LNG tankersMarcinko andNSA andTadpole andyouth of cyanide
Dahlgren, Trace
Apache heritage ofon bank robbery missionBarrett andon container port missionon freight train missionon *His Swarthinesson Homeland Securityon hospital missionon Las Vegas missionMarcinko andon nuclear power plant missionat Rogue Manoron Tiffanyon truck depot mission Danbury Federal Prison
DCPJ (Central Directorate Judicial Police)
Degtyarev RPD
Delta team
Detachment Bravo (Marcinko)
DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure)
DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency)
*Diem D’Luc, Pierre. See also du Boc, Luc
Dog Day Afternoon (film)
Dogglebash, Seriv
*Doom Dude
Dragon
du Boc, Lili
du Boc, Luc. See also *Diem D’Luc, Pierre; *Frenchie
du Boc, Yi Chi
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
EPROM reader
Eurocorps
Fairfield, Karen
on Armsteadon container port missionon Coxon freight train missionon Las Vegas missionon LNG tankerson mall missionMarcinko andon Red Cell IIon Tellyon *Topless Tango Falcone, Paul Guido. See also *Shunt
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). See also *Bureau Without a Clue
on container port missionon Coxon freight train missionHunt withon motorcycliston terrorist cellson *Topless Tango Ferro, Jimmy
flash-bangs
*Frenchie. See also du Boc, Luc
Furness, Jack
*George. See also *His Swarthiness
Geronimo
Glock
Goddard, Fred “Hulk,”
at Boreland meetingon container port missionon freight train missionon hospital missionon Las Vegas missionMarcinko onon nuclear power plant missionat Rogue Manorat SciClubon *Shadowon truck depot mission Goodman, Oscar
Good Morning America (TV program)
*Grundle, Nicky
Guantanamo, prison at
H&K P7
HAZMAT team
*His Swarthiness
Homeland Security
alert system ofArmstead atat bank bombingBarrett onCox atFairfield aton freight train missionon Guantanamoon hospital mission*Junior atMarcinko freelancing forNSA andOffice of Internal Security Affairs (OSIA)on ship transportTelly at Hometown, USA
HRT (Hostage Rescue Team). See also FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Hunt, Cordella
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Internet
Iowa Department of Public Safety
IRA (Irish Republican Army)
*Jankolunitz. See also *Shunt
Jimmy (float driver)
Jitters (Joint Tactical Radio System)
*Junior
Kernan, Irish
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Krav Maga
Law Enforcement Technologies Inc.
Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior (Marcinko)
LNG port
M16s
M249 SAW machine gun
M-809
M9
MAC
Mako, Sean
background ofon bank robbery missionon Borelandon container port missionon freight train missionon *His Swarthinesson Homeland Securityon hospital missionKernan onon Las Vegas missionon LNG tankerson mall missionMarcinko onon nuclear power plant missionat Rogue Manorat SciClubon Tiffanyon truck depot mission McVeigh, Tim
Melanie (Danny’s daughter)
Men in Black
Methane Duke (ship)
mines, Claymore
MK3A2 grenade
MP5
MP9
MSD (microwave scan device)
NASA
National Enquirer
National Guard
NATO
NBC gear
New York Times
No Heroes (Coulson)
NSA (No Such Agency)
Boreland atcomputer virus ofCox anddescription ofMarcinko onSheila at*Shunt atweapons from NYPD (New York Police Department)
P5 Compact
P7M8
pepper gas
pepper spray
Point Ricardo (patrol boat)
*Popeye Arms
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Prescott, Pinckney “Pinky,”
PRUs (Phoenix Program and Provincial Reconnaissance Units)
Quantico
Queens Savings Association
Real Team, The (Marcinko)
Red Cell I
Red Cell II
Remington
Rogue Warrior (Marcinko)
Schumer, Chuck
Schwarzkopf, H. Norman
Scott Air Force Base
SEALs
SEAL Team Six
SEAL Team Two
Semtex
*Shadow
Capel onCox onon freight trainFrench authorities and*His Swarthiness andin Las VegasMarcinko onat nuclear power plantTremblay on Sheila (*Shunt’s cousin)
Shitheads for Allah
*Shorty
*Shunt
on bank robbery missionon Barretton cell phoneson container port missionCox ondescription ofon Las Vegas missionas pilotat Rogue Manor Simms, Pete
Sky Acres
SoldierVision
SpecWar
Star Trek (TV program)
Stockholm Syndrome
Storey, Jeff
SueLi (Danny’s girlfriend)
Suvorov, Aleksandr V.
SWAT team
Tadpole (Threat Data, Polling and Logging)
Tangos
Telly, Richard “Dick”
on bank bombingon freight train missionLas Vegas mission andMarcinko andon truck depot mission *Topless Tango
Transportation, U.S. Department of
Tremblay, Al “Doc”
at bank bombingon computerson container port missionat Cove Pointon freight train missionon French missionon Homeland Securityon hospital missionon Las Vegas missionon LNG tankerson Red Cell screeningat SciClubon *Shadowon *Topless Tangoon truck depot mission Tremblay, Donna
trucking industry, vulnerability of
*Twenty Questions
USS Cole (ship)
Vehicle Enhancement Systems
Vietcong (VC)
Violence of Action (Marcinko)
*Wannabee
*Wappino nuclear power plant
Washington Post
Watson, Jim “Patches,”
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