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“A DEA undercover in Cancún just drove up to a hacienda outside Real del Monte,” Eot a hit on one of the Salvajes cell numbers we have Not only that, but the CIA just learned that the estate in question used to be owned by Perrine! Word is, they’re taking this as actionable intelligence We need to get rolling JSOC is calling aback at the base”

I left Neves with Diaz and Bassistics Airport After we badged our way through the guard booth, it was obvious some fires had been lit

It was like someone had dropped a pinball into one of those kineticin and out of the dorars Dozens of bearded Navy SEALs and Delta Force operators clustered in ss as soldiers with clipboards did flight prep on the Black Hawk and Little Bird choppers out on the tarmac

As alked into the task force’s war rooton and one of the JSOC generals was under way Beside it in the split screen was a satellite iardens

Colonel D’A at the rear of the room, cracked the door and came out when he saw us

“They sent up a drone,” he said “What your contact said is true There’s an enor on at the estate Not only that, CIA is still doing so, but they think they spotted Perrine riding a horse on one of the ht noith the president We just got word that the president wants Perrine in a body bag We’re going in tonight under cover of darkness with everything we got”

“We did it, Mike? We found Perrine?” E her eyes

“I don’t give a shit about him, Emily,” I said “We need to find my family”

CHAPTER 91

IT LOOKED LIKE THE set of a spaghetti Western, orbeneath ht Beloas a wilderness of ept desert, sh the night-vision goggles I earing

I shifted ht to wakemetal floor of the Black Hawk chopper It’d taken so by Eo on the raid on one of the supporting Black Haith the FBI’s hostage rescue team and some CIA personnel Emily had emphasized my past personal contact with Perrine and ht, and was really looking forward to some more personal contact

The dozen nap-of-the-earth airborne helicopters in our armada included Black Hawks and Little Birds, two Cobra attack helicopters, and even a twin-bladed Chinook filled with a contingent of first-reconstars, there was even an AC-130 Spectre gunship bristling with uns and mortars and Hellfire missiles to back us up

Not knohat to expect, the Pentagon had broken out the entire toolbox Which couldn’t have made me happier Perrine and his cartel were for all intents and purposes no different from an enemy army It was finally time to deal with them as such

It had been mostly flat desert, but as we flew, the terrain suddenly started to change Froetation began to rise Soon the hills turned into ed cliffs and sheer mountain-stream-filled valleys

“We are co in, in five,” a voice called over the radio A e, and Perrine’s house was there The Unaboes hadn’t done it justice The dra French Second Empire mansion looked like a block someone had airlifted from the Champs-Élyssés and plunked down in the hts was blazing on itsnight