A helicopter set down in the middle of the street, between the wrecked van and the other cop car. Officer Jackson watched as one of the men exited the chopper with a stretcher and ran between the houses and out of sight. He returned a moment later with another man, carrying a stretcher with a person on it. They ran to the chopper and slid the stretcher into the back. Then the man that had jumped out of the chopper ran into the house.

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Terry was sleeping when he was grabbed and dragged from his bed. Duct tape was over his mouth before he could even react. His hands were taped behind him and he was being roughly dragged by two smaller men from his room. He tried to struggle but was hit in the back of the head by something. The world faded out. There was only pain until he was unconscious. Terry was dragged down the stairs by the two men as the other two men in the house hurried around the lower floor.

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“Terry, we have an issue. We picked up the guys tasked with tracking and picking you up. They are Russian… KGB. The problem is that you are on their radar. No matter what we do, you’ll be a name known to them forever. We can divert their attention, but at some point, their attention will revert to you.”
“Is there a way to solve that?” Terry asked, a sad look in his eyes.
“We’re working on that. We have one, but it’s extreme. It would be hard on a lot of people, but it might end up as the best alternative.”
“What is it?”
“We can kill you,” Bill said… then smiled.
“Uhhh…”

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If you spend any time using WordPress, whether to blog or for ecommerce… or whatever… you likely have a few plugins that you really like. I know I do. So here they are, in no particular order.

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The casing of the door just above his head exploded as it was shot. Gino didn’t know if the shot came from the second guy or the sniper across the street, but he quickly dragged the still form of the big man further into the house and tossed a “cool pad” over him to mask his heat signature. He expected that the sniper would kill his own man to keep him from talking if he knew he was captured.

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Terry finds out that there are a lot of interested parties after he hacks a computer system belonging to the Department of Defense, and it isn’t just the US government that wants to know who he is and how he got in there.

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