by Greg Rucka
FSB
Forward Support Base (U.K. Military)
FSO
Foreign Service Officer (also FO); indicates a career State Department Officer (U.S. State Department)
GSPC
Groupe Salafiste pour la Predication et la Combat (The Salafist Group for Call and Combat); violent religious extremist group based in Algeria
GWOT
Global War on Terror
Hizb-ut-Tahir
The Islamic Party of Liberation, a banned Uzbek opposition party seeking greater religious freedom in Uzbekistan
HOS
Head of Station; also Station Number One (SIS)
IMU
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; terrorist organization with ties to al-Qaeda, responsible for terror attacks in Uzbekistan. Often confused with Hizb-ut-Tahir
JI
Jemaah Islamiyah (Islamic Community); extremist terror organization operating in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Has ties to al-Qaeda.
JIC
Joint Intelligence Committee (U.K.)
LNG
Liquefied Natural Gas
LS
Landing site
MANPAD
Man-portable air defense system; a surface-to-air missile capable of being launched by a lone individual
MCO
Mission Control Officer (SIS); Ops Room post responsible for oversight of actual mission execution; also Main Communications Officer (SIS); responsible for recording and coordinating communications between the Ops Room and the field
Mission
Generic term used interchangeably with “post” or “embassy,” referring to the entirety of the official representation made to a host country (U.S. State Department)
MOD
Ministry of Defense (U.K.)
NCTC
National Center for Counterterrorism (U.S.)
NVG
Night-vision goggles
PA
Personal Assistant
PRC
People’s Republic of China
PUS
Permanent Undersecretary
RSO
Regional Security Officer (U.S. State Department)
RV
Rendezvous
S
Office of Secretary, Department of State; Secretary of State (U.S.)
SAS
Special Air Service (U.K.)
SIS
Secret Intelligence Service (U.K.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GREG RUCKA has worked at a variety of jobs, from theatrical fight choreographer to emergency medical technician. The author of A Gentleman’s Game, A Fistful of Rain, and five previous thrillers, he resides with his family in Portland, Oregon. He is currently working on the next Atticus Kodiak crime novel, Patriot Acts, which Bantam will publish in fall 2006.
ALSO BY GREG RUCKA
Keeper
Finder
Smoker
Shooting at Midnight
Critical Space
A Fistful of Rain
A Gentleman’s Game
PRIVATE WARS
A Bantam Book / November 2005
Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York
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, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2005 by Greg Rucka
Map by Robert Bull
Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rucka, Greg.
Private wars / Greg Rucka.
p. cm.
1. Women spies—Fiction. 2. Americans—Uzbekistan—Fiction. 3. Illegal arms transfers—Fiction. 4. Uzbekistan—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.U2968P75 2005
813'.54—dc22
2005050115
Published simultaneously in Canada
www.bantamdell.com
eISBN: 978-0-553-90209-9
v3.0
