Arctic Fire

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Author: Stephen Frey
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CHAPTER 5

    S HANE M ADDUX had been living in the darkest shadows of the global intelligence world for so long he’d almost forgotten how lonely and terrifying most people would find his existence. How it would probably send most nine-to-fivers head-on into a brick wall of hysteria to have to worry about assassins lurking around every corner and behind every door.
    But he’d gotten over the mortal fears of the masses long ago because his love of country superseded his concern for self. Not many individuals could say that and honestly mean it, and he was quietly but intensely proud of how unselfishly dedicated he was to protecting the United States of America.
    At any cost and any sacrifice.
    That was his personal mantra, and he lived it every day.
    Maddux glanced up in his naturally guarded way as Roger Carlson limped into the small, plainly decorated living room andeased onto the sofa on the other side of the dusty coffee table. It was the first time Maddux had
ever
felt uncomfortable about one of these meetings, and they’d been meeting like this for two decades. For twenty years Shane Maddux had run the Falcon division of Red Cell Seven for Roger Carlson.
    “Hello, Shane.” Carlson spoke up first as he usually did.
    “Hello, Roger. It’s good to see you.”
    Carlson was the only person in the world Maddux ever met with regularly, but that was fine. In fact, it was perfect. The deal he and Carlson had forged over the past two decades enabled Maddux to take what he wanted from the world with no strings attached and little risk of reprisal. It made him the ferocious apex predator he’d always dreamed of being as a kid when the bullies had kicked his ass around the playground like a soccer ball—and laughed at him while they were doing it. The apex predator he’d always dreamed of being as the priest had forced him into that dark, tiny closet and attacked him after he was too scared and paralyzed from his claustrophobia to even scream.
    “It’s good to see you too, Shane,” Carlson said in his gravelly Georgia drawl. “Congratulations on nailing that situation headed for Boston Harbor. The
Olympian
is now in the capable hands of our Navy SEALs. Your Falcons came through again.” Carlson’s eyes lit up. “They’re amazing.”
    “They are good,” Maddux agreed, careful to show no emotion. Sometimes his Falcons were too good. Sometimes they needed to better understand the rules and their orders—one of them in particular. But he was taking care of that. “When did it happen?”
    “Thirty minutes ago.”
    “Did we get the plane too?”
    Carlson nodded. “It was a civilian G5. The guy ran for Europe, but one of our aviators from the
Reagan
intercepted him and shot him down in the North Atlantic. Played a little cat-and-mouse with him for practice and then took him out,” Carlson explained.“There’s a recon team heading for the crash site now. Our pilot used a new laser technology to shoot the G5 down so there was no fireball. If there were helpful documents on that plane, the recon guys will find them.”
    “Good,” Maddux said quietly. Once again he was careful to show no emotion. There might have been documents aboard the G5 that could pose a problem for him.
    “It is good,” Carlson agreed. “It’s damn good, and President Dorn sends along his heartfelt congratulations. He’s more impressed every day with how valuable you and your Falcons are. He’s amazed at how you can find a needle in a haystack in the middle of a field at night when no one else can find the haystack. When some of our people can’t even find the damn
field
, for Christ’s sake.” Carlson shook his head. “My God,” he said quietly, “can you imagine if your guys hadn’t gotten you the word on that ship? It would have been a nightmare for the president to handle an attack of that magnitude in his first year of office.”
    “It would have been
hell
for him,” Maddux said fiercely, as Carlson rested his
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