Command Authority

I’ve talked to Gerry already. He found a new building in Fairfax County, and Gavin has come up with some new technology to help us move forward.”

the Delta Force operatives that Ding and his men were CIA Special Activities Division officers, which was exactly what Clark and Chavez used to be.

“I will prove that Dmitri Nesterov, the man who was funneled one-point-two billion U.S. dollars by the Russian government, is none other than a Seven Strong Men capo who operates under the alias Gleb the Scar.”

A young officer was charged with setting up and protecting the assets in the West, and he brought on board an assassin from military intelligence, a man who had a lot of experience killing from his years in Afghanistan.” Ryan said, “Roman Talanov.”

Oxley explained to Ryan, giving him some time to think about his predicament was standard operating procedure for a hostile interrogation.

Their primary weapon was the nine-millimeter H​​​​K MP5 submachine gun, a state-of-the-art weapon for close-quarters combat. On their hips they carried P7 pistols, also made by the German firm Heckler ​​​​ Koch, and various fragmentation, smoke, and concussion grenades hung from their vests.

GSG 9 became one of the preeminent tier-one units in the world.

When an eight-man cell of Black September terrorists kidnapped members of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich, the German police allowed them to fly on two Huey helicopters to nearby Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, where they would then—according to their demands, anyway—board a 727

“I’m Midas, this is Boyd, this is Greyhound, these guys in back are Arctic, Beavis, and Slammer.” Both Page and Conway thought the same thing at the same time. These dudes are fucking Delta Force!

In his nearly half-century of military and intelligence service to the United States and NATO, John Clark had climbed aboard most every aircraft, from propeller-driven airplanes, to turboprops, to jets, and he’d ridden aboard more helicopters than he cared to count.