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“I got the terame I’m lost about”

Aidan provided a quick explanation

“Nice,” Marc responded “Share that with Ryan, Terri He’ll love it”

“Good idea” Terri looked proud and pleased “He, of all people, will appreciate the intricacies of the app”

“Since the sky’s the liest we hire both women I’ve selected,” Simone said “One is more experienced in these types of operations, and the other speaks Albanian as well as Croatian We have no idea the exact nature of the skills that will be required, or if we’ll need one or both of these candidates I don’t want to take any chances by being short on resources in a crisis situation Given that the kidnappers’ deadline is less than a week away, I’ll hire the tomen for a full week”

“Go for it,” Aidan agreed “I need them to meet Philip and Marc in Munich ASAP” He turned to the twoto have to bring Simone’s candidates up to speed and take it from there”

“Done,” Marc replied

“One last thing about what Philip and I need in addition to rease the necessary palms,” Marc said “We need tactical support—weapons, transportation, communications The Albanians don’t play nice Neither should we”

“Good point,” Aidan responded “Philip, can you arrange the transport and the weapons? Terri ire the o”

“Not a probleet us anything ant As for transportation, I’ll get us a BMW 7 series—nothing too flashy, but it’ll handle well in a chase and move fast should we need it to”

“S,” Aidan said “Marc, what are your current weapons of choice?”

“A Glock 27 nine-un,” his brother replied

“Those are easy enough to get,” Philip assured them

“Good Last thing up: communications,” Aidan said “We need to talk once a day as a team Philip, you need to pick the best time for your European team to talk, since the rest of us have more flexibility”

Philip gave that a quick thought “Let’s go for zero seven hundred hours Central European Time, which is zero one hundred hours Eastern Standard Time and twenty-two hundred hours Pacific Standard Time”