He was still looking at Nicole walking toward him when the chopper lifted off behind her and accelerated back to the north again. Nobody stopped her as she walked right up to him. She didn’t know he was live.
“Hi Mike,” Nicole said, very relaxed.
“Whose chopper?” Mike said.

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“Geez, girl, that thing is sharp,” Nicole told her sister-in-law, “I thought I was gonna slice my wrist open,”
“Sorry. Your brother is a little obsessive when it comes to knife blades. I’ve never used it for more than opening mail.”
A few minutes later and both women were free from the zip ties on their wrists and ankles. But they were still trapped inside the back of the van. They couldn’t hear anyone outside, though, and felt like they’d been left alone.

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Gunny and Bobby were still sixty seconds out when Bill sent a rocket propelled grenade into the gate of the villa. He followed that with a second RPG that flew through the destroyed gate and impacted the front doors of the villa, leaving splinters, dust and a gaping maw where the door had been.

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The girl was almost in hysterics.  She’d been kidnapped two days before in Chicago.  Her father was a prominent politician, and wealthy.  They’d called and demanded a five-hundred-thousand-dollar ransom.  Gunny’s team had been called in after the ransom demand.  When the kidnappers called again to tell them where to drop the money, which was supposed […]

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As Bobby approached the end of the hall, the last door was wide open and even before he got there, he could see the kidnapper holding the teenage girl in front of him as a human shield, holding his revolver to her head.

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“Looky here, Hoss. I don’t care if you are FBI, you don’t talk…”
A moment later, Officer Allen found himself face down with his hands cuffed behind his back and both ankles zip-tied to the cuffs. It happened so fast he didn’t even realize how it happened.

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