Before his head could rebound off the mat, the heavy glass double doors of the gym entrance were not opened with a handle.
They were blown completely inward by an eighty-pound linear hydraulic tactical breaching ram!
KABOOOOM.
CRASH-ROAR-SHATTER.
Reinforced glass, rubber door gaskets, and structural aluminum frames disintegrated inward in an explosive blizzard of diamond shards and freezing autumn rain!
Pouring through the demolished threshold in fluid, terrifying, synchronized mechanical velocity came twelve operators from the United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU Red Squadron)!
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They were dressed in sterile dark-charcoal Nomex cold-weather drysuits, Level IV boron-carbide plate carriers, and Ops-Core ballistic helmets with four-tube panoramic night-vision brackets folded onto their foreheads!
Across their chests hung suppressed SIG Sauer MCX Rattlers, their PEQ-15 infrared lasers cutting through the drifting chalk dust in twelve razor-sharp needles of incandescent crimson light!
“FEDERAL INQUEST! CORDON ESTABLISHED! DROP TO THE DECK! SPREAD YOUR FINGERS BEHIND YOUR HEADS!”
