Page 65 of Silent Target

“Yes.”

“From here?”

“Yes.”

“Caleb, that’s impossible.”

I slow my breathing.

“No. It’s difficult.”

The bunker door begins to open.

Mac takes one reluctant step.

Rook’s voice comes through the radio.

“Shadow Division…”

A pause.

“Execute.”

I squeeze the trigger.

The rifle strikes my shoulder.

Eight hundred yards away, the chain between Mac’s wrists explodes into fragments of steel.

For one stunned heartbeat, no one moves.

Not Mac.

Not his guards.

Not the men in the towers.

That heartbeat is all Shadow Division needs.

Rook, Cobra, and Fathom burst from the tree line as alarms begin screaming through the compound.

The rescue has begun.

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The compound erupts.

Rook reaches the southern fence before the guards understand they’re under attack. He takes the first man down with one brutal strike and drives the second into the fence.

The third raises his rifle.

Caleb fires.

The weapon flies from the guard’s hands as the bullet strikes its receiver.

The man stares at the twisted metal in disbelief.