Chapter SeventeenBeat: 1989Half a step before storming into the conference room at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas, Beat stopped herself.
Secret Service liaison office to U.S. Southern Command regarding the Panama situation.
This was Frank’s first assignment, a huge feather in his cap to be assigned the project straight out of training. She’d gotten some of the history on it. The whole thing was tiny when it started, so they sent down a senior agent and three rookies, one of which was Frank. Two months in, the senior guy got offered a cherry assignment. He’d insisted that one of the rookies had it in hand, so rather than send a new lead, they’d sent the new leader a mid-level guy to help.
So what had she done?
She’d gone from six months in Africa to being assigned to the Panama
