Roy’s Independence Day (excerpt)
“Check out this. Southwest Gate.”
By the tone over his radio headset, there was no question what Roy was being asked to check out. Not some depressed loon looking for “suicide by cop” achieved by jumping the fence. Nor some a-hole who thought he could actually cover the seventy yards between the fence and the White House without tripping a dozen alarms and alerting the ground teams.
Secret Service officer Roy Beaumont swung his sniper rifle around until he could see the Southwest Gate. He had the broadest field-of-view of the grounds from his perch on the roof of the Residence. Hank lay on the East Wing roof and wouldn’t see squat, which would totally bum him out. Fernando’s post on the West Wing roof had prime sightlines to the Southwest Gate. Mike was
