Double Tap

The body of water twisted its way through the city, forming a natural boundary that could only be crossed at one of the bridges. The victim was forced to confront their own mortality and acknowledge that their ability to draw another breath was now in someone else’s hands. Coleman’s conversation was forcing him to confront an uncomfortable truth: in his eagerness to assure his superiors that SEAL Team 6 was ready to deliver on an operation that required such audacity, he may have inadvertently signed his men up for the impossible. As with radio communications, the Israeli aircraft’s radar emissions had been kept to a minimum to facilitate their stealthy passage through first Jordanian, then Saudi, and finally Iraqi airspace.