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“…no,” he finally answered.
“Good,” she snapped, then continued the briefing.
As far as the men in that room were concerned, Rachel Bauer had passed the test.
But she’d made an enemy in doing so.
“Wow, hon är något annat,” Gunnar whispered.
Wow, she’s something else.
“Ja det är hon,” I murmured back.
Yes, she is.
17
The briefing lasted another 10 minutes. After Rachel gave some more info on Massoud, one of the American Special Forces guys took over and ran through the details.
We would leave for Kabul at 1600 (4PM local time, seven hours from now) with a convoy of regular soldiers as camouflage. It was pretty routine for a bunch of Humvees to drive through Kabul on patrol. Nobody would suspect there were a bunch of Special Forces operatives with them.
Once we reached the target, Special Forces would detach from the regular troops. I would set up shop on a nearby rooftop and act as overwatch to guard everybody’s backs. Gunnar would be my spotter, the guy entrusted with making sure no hostiles snuck up behind me to take me out.
The Special Forces guys on the ground would breach Massoud’s safe house and either capture or kill him.
After the briefing was over, everyone started filing out… except for me.
“Aren’t you coming?” Gunnar asked me in Swedish.
“Go on, I’ll catch up.”
He glanced over at Rachel, who was still speaking with the head of the American Special Forces unit, then looked back at me.
“Aha,” he said with a big grin like he had me all figured out. “Good luck, brother.”
“Get out of here,” I said affectionately.
Gunnar laughed and left with the others.
I waited until Rachel ended her conversation with the American. As soon as he left, I walked over. She was still packing up some files in a briefcase when I said, “Hello.”
She looked up at me as though trying to place me, like she’d read about me in her files. “Henriksson, right?”
“Call me Lars.”
She didn’t give me even a hint of a smile. “What can I do for you, Henriksson?”
Okay, so it was going to be purely professional.
Not a problem.
“You might want to take Delgado off the team.”
“And why is that?”
“One of the guys in Delgado’s unit warned me that if you get on his bad side, you don’t want him backing you up in the field.”
“…because…?”
