Kit: Gear.
Klick: Kilometer.
MI6: The United Kingdom’s equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency.
MNS: Ministry of National Security, Azerbaijan’s intelligence agency, similar to America’s CIA.
NOC: Stands for Non-Official Cover. An illegal resident spy. Rather than work as an official spy with diplomatic cover in an embassy, a NOC works away from embassies and trade missions. If captured, a NOC doesn’t have diplomatic immunity, but he does have more independence and can mingle more easily in the target country in deep cover. Even if the embassy or trade mission in the target country is dissolved, the NOC can remain to continue conducting intelligence operations.
PC: Precious Cargo, such as a hostage being rescued.
Resident spy: An intelligence officer who operates in a foreign country for an extended period of time.
RHIB: Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat. A boat with a solid, V-shaped hull and large inflatable collar at the gunwale, often used by SEALs and other military personnel.
RSO: Regional Security Officer, who works for the State Department overseas and is in charge of law enforcement at US embassies.
SDR: Surveillance Detection Route. A tactical route taken to notice surveillance, which can also be used to lose surveillance, making oneself clean.
SEAL: US Navy commandos who operate in the environments of SEa, Air, and Land. The odd-numbered SEAL Teams (One, Three, Five, and Seven) are based in Coronado, California, and the even-numbered Teams (Two, Four, Six, Eight, and Ten) are based at Little Creek, Virginia. (If the Teams expanded, Team Nine would probably be created next.)
SEAL Team Six: Team Six selects from the best SEALs to serve in its Tier One unit, also known as DEVGRU. Team Six SEALs conduct counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations. For the most sensitive operations, they work under the CIA’s umbrella of Special Operations Group (SOG).
Selection: The course for weeding out who would become a Delta operator and who wouldn’t.
SIGINT: Signal Intelligence. SIGINT collects electronic signals and can break encryptions and analyze who is sending/receiving signals and the quantities of signaling.
Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki: Abbreviated as SVR. Russia’s foreign intelligence service, successor of the KGB after the dissolution of the USSR.
SOG: Special Operations Group conducts high-threat military and intelligence operations that the US government may deny knowledge of, such as SEAL Team Six’s raid of bin Laden’s headquarters—each Team Six SEAL signed a contract temporarily placing him under SOG’s command. SOG also utilizes Army Delta Force operators and others.
SOP: Standard Operating Procedure.
Southern Gas Corridor: A plan by the European Commission for Caspian and Middle Eastern countries (Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and Syria, and possibly Uzbekistan and Iran) to supply Europe with natural gas. The plan includes a network of pipelines, part of which consists of SCP, TANAP, and TAP.
SCP: South Caucasus Pipeline. The pipeline that carries natural gas from the Caspian Sea, through Azerbaijan, and to Turkey.
Spook: Slang for CIA officer.
TANAP: Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline, which would cross Turkey. Construction was estimated to be completed by 2018.
TAP: Trans-Adriatic Pipeline. A pipeline to carry natural gas from the Turkish border, through Greece, Albania, and the Adriatic Sea, to Italy. The route (with originating pipelines in parentheses) would be from the Shah Deniz gas field in Caspian Sea (SCP) Azerbaijan Georgia Turkey (TANAP) Greece (TAP) Albania Italy.
TECHINT: Technical Intelligence. The use of technology and gizmos to gather intelligence, as opposed to HUMINT, human intelligence.
UKP: United Kingdom Petroleum.
The Unit: See Delta Force.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’d like to thank SEAL sniper veteran Kyle Defoor for training me in assault rifle and pistol to help me prepare for this novel. In Afghanistan, Kyle was part of Operation Anaconda, where he fought in the Battle of Takur Ghar and was awarded a Bronze Star for valor. The operation succeeded in killing hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists, taking away their control of the Shahi-Kot Valley.
I greatly appreciate Carol Scarr and Danielle Poiesz for their editorial advice on early drafts of this book.
Most of all, I am thankful for the support of my wife, Reiko, and children, Kent and Maria.
Since elementary school, STEPHEN TEMPLIN felt a need to write, dreaming of becoming a novelist. Now he is a New York Times and international bestselling author with the movie rights to one of his movies purchased by Vin Diesel. Steve’s books have been translated into thirteen languages. He is a “hybrid” author who maintains active book contracts with top publishers such as Simon and Schuster and St. Martin’s Press while also publishing independently.
After high school, he completed Hell Week, qualified as a pistol and rifle expert, blew up things, and practiced small unit tactics during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training. Later, Steve left the Navy and became a missionary. Then, for fourteen years, he lectured as a tenured professor at Meio University in Japan, where he also practiced the martial art aikido. Currently, he lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chris, Hannah, & Sonny will return
Glossary
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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