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Part of Kara continued functioning. She didn’t know how.
She fielded messages from the inserted team. Rousted Claudia from her hidey-hole two hours before sunrise.
All focus from Ramon Airbase had turned to the destruction of three aircraft in the desert: two Israeli jets in the heart of the desert and a million tiny bits of an American helicopter close outside the air base’s perimeter fence.
The eighty pounds of explosive and the eight hundred gallons of Jet A that the Chinook helo had carried—Kara could no longer stand to think of it as the Calamity Jane—burned long and hot.
Four Hellfire missiles.
Hopefully nothing identifiable would remain. She shied away from the thought.
Kara guided the Maven II in across the desert, and Claudia extracted the four-person team more quietly t
