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pocket then leaned back and closed his
eyes to enjoy the rush of the takeoff.
     
    * * * *
     
    Montreal, Canada,
morning
     
    “Dave!” cried
Leslie Robb as she rushed into the conference room and hugged the ex-police
captain. “I’m so pleased you’ve joined the team.”
    “I’m happy to be
here,” Dave replied, standing to greet the attractive, thirty-one year old
operative. “I was starting to think you were avoiding me. I’ve been here almost
a week and it’s the first time I see you.”
    “Dominique and I
were on vacation, silly,” Leslie replied, slapping his arm. “Now, I’m back and
you’re going to get to see a lot of me in the coming days.”
    “You’ll get no
complaints from me about that,” said Dave. “I’ve been spending most of my time
with Chris and his evil computer wizardry so I’ll welcome the change.”
    From the table,
Chris laughed and said, “You may live to regret those words. I guess Jon didn’t
tell you Leslie will be giving you the intense version of her martial arts
crash course.”
    “Aw, crap,” Dave
replied before winking at Leslie. “Promise you’ll be gentle, okay?”
    “Not on your life,
mister,” said Leslie as she settled into chair. “So, do you guys know what this
briefing is about?”
    Chris shook his
head. “Nope. Only that Nick Sharp contacted Jon with something yesterday and he
ended up spending the rest of the day in a number of telephone and online
meetings.”
    “We’ll find out
soon enough,” said Leslie.
    “You will indeed,”
said Jonathan as he entered the room and closed the door behind him. “Good
morning, folks. I’ll start by welcoming Dave to his first briefing with us and,
let me tell you, he’s starting his new career with a bang because this is
something huge. In fact, it’s likely the biggest project we’ve ever been
involved with. Does anyone care to venture a guess?”
    “Let’s see,” said
Chris, stroking his chin in thought. “By process of elimination, it has nothing
to do with Hitler, Hussein, bin Laden or Gaddafi so, nope, I don’t have a
clue.”
    Jonathan smiled as
he slid three file folders to the centre of the table toward them. “That’s the
detailed report for your reading pleasure later but I’ll give you a quick
summary to start. I’m not sure about Leslie but I know you two gentlemen are
familiar with the Devil’s Delight.”
    “Damn, I haven’t
heard that name in a long time,” said Chris, his expression turning serious.
    “Aren’t the
Devil’s Delight a defunct biker gang from the late nineties?” asked Leslie.
“The name was always popping up in the papers in relation to the biker wars
back then.”
    “Same gang
indeed,” Jonathan confirmed, “Except defunct only applies to the biker
reference. The Devil’s Delight never ceased to exist and is now believed to be
one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world, definitely the biggest
in terms of drug distribution. They left the biker scene rather suddenly in
1998 and have only been rumoured of since, until recently.”
    “What happened
recently?” asked Dave.
    “A couple of
things, one being a fellow by the name of Pablo Martinez getting arrested for
capital murder in Houston,” Jonathan replied. “Rock solid case guaranteeing him
the needle. However, it so happens that the DEA had been keeping a close eye on
Martinez for several years, looking for the slightest shred of evidence to
confirm he was a top man with the Devil’s Delight.
    “He was offered a
deal in exchange for information and he had quite a story to tell. Players,
locations, routes, records, the works. The DEA and FBI are currently
coordinating with state and local police across the U.S. in preparation of what
promises to be the most important series of simultaneous raids in history. The
RCMP is organizing similar raids at a variety of locations across Canada.”
    “That is huge,” said Chris. “When is all of this going to happen?”
    “I don’t have