That was the last op Rory and Bond worked on together. Eventually, he heard Bond had been injured on a mission and had received a Purple Heart, but was back with his team. The Army’s Delta Force and the Navy SEALs had been well kept secrets, but after they’d captured bin Laden, the SEALs were suddenly in the news, to the chagrin of the members of those units who now felt vulnerable.
And they were right…they were vulnerable. An entire SEAL team was killed when the Taliban shot down a helicopter carrying over twenty of them, and suddenly news about them disappeared, like a submarine running silent, running deep.
Yet this man was still so memorable and important to Rory that he’d frantically searched the names of the dead with his throat tight and a pain in his chest. Weak with relief, he c
