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Chapters (74)
  1. Cover
  2. TITLES BY STEPHEN HUNTER
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. PART 1
  6. 1
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  8. 3
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  20. PART 2
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  33. PART 3
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  54. PART 4
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  69. PART 5
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  72. Acknowledgments
  73. About the Author
  74. What’s next onyour reading list?

“The only thing that comes back is that fire is hot, and you don’t want to die that way.”

“An excellent lesson,” said Cohen.

“Cohen might know a bit about this one subject,” said Gold. “He was shot down four times.”

Cohen held up his left hand. It was plastic.

“Okay,” said Bob. “I’m impressed.”

“He shot down fifteen of theirs. Net gain for our side: eleven aircraft.”

“Triple ace,” said Swagger. “Again, I’m impressed.”

“Odd that he turned out so annoying,” said Gold.

Bob nodded. “Anyway, that thing looks pretty well shot to hell to me.”

“Forensic computer science is quite advanced,” said Gold, “and we have people who are practiced at it.”

“You got something?”

“There was an undamaged sector header on the otherwise quite useless hard drive. The process is called file carving. Our people were able to extract bits of information from the header, including IP addresses recorded on the data sector. The data sector was gone, the data, therefore, was gone, but not the Internet Protocol addresses. They came from a server in Manila, in the Philippines. We’ve just penetrated it remotely, located the origin of the IPs, and learned that many were created in Dearborn, Michigan.”

A silence settled into the room.

Finally, it was the Director who spoke.

“That is why, Sergeant Swagger, in one hour you and Mr. Gold are taking off for Washington. Your FBI shares our concern. The evidence is irrefutable. Juba the Sniper is headed to America. He is going to shoot a high-value target from a long way away. And probably quite soon.”

PART 2

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