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people are born with, not that he hadn't maintained it over ous assignments
up until his last one, which had not turned
the years with a constant physical regime. His skin was out well in his
view. Now he had been handpicked to be
dark, natural for his half-Canuck, half-Indian background assigned to this
unit, of which he knew nothing except it
He'd grown up in the forests of northern Maine, where the was highly classified
and went by the designation of Delta
major industries were lumber and hard drinking. His shot Operations, which
made Turcotte wonder if the name had
out of town had been a football scholarship to the Univer- been deliberately
chosen to be confused with Delta Force,


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the elite counterterrorist force at Fort Bragg with whom he of work in Special
Operations had cultivated, wondered if
had worked occasionally when stationed with Detachment Lisa Duncan was
who she said she was, regardless of her
A in Berlin--a classified Special Forces unit responsible fancy ID card.
This might be some sort of test of his loyalty
for terrorism control in Europe. set up by Delta
Operations itself.
There wasn't even any scuttlebutt about Delta Opera- Duncan had told
him he was not to inform anyone of his
tions, which was rather amazing among the close-knit Spe- meeting with her,
but that had immediately put him in a
cial Operations community. It meant one of two things: bind the minute
he had met Prague at the Las Vegas air-
Either no one was ever reassigned out of Delta Operations port. Withholding
that information meant he was already
and therefore no stories could be told, or those reassigned in subtle conflict
with his new organization, not a good way
out of it kept their mouths completely sealed, which was to start an assignment.
What was real and what wasn't,
more likely. Turcotte knew civilians found it difficult to Turcotte didn't
know. He'd decided on the plane from
credit, but most military men he had worked with believed Washington to Las
Vegas to do what Duncan had said,
in the oaths of secrecy they swore. keep his eyes and
ears open, his mouth shut, and ride what-
But the thing that concerned Turcotte was that there ever roller coaster
he had been put onto until he could