The forward cabin door of the Boeing 737 was not opened by a gate agent.
It was obliterated inward by an eighty-pound linear hydraulic tactical breaching ram!
CRASH-ROAR-SHATTER.
Through the pulverized breach, moving with fluid, terrifying mechanical velocity…
Poured twelve operators from the United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU Red Squadron)!
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, they swept the forward galley!
Across their chests hung suppressed SIG Sauer MCX Rattlers, their weapon-mounted PEQ-15 infrared lasers cutting through the cabin air in twelve razor-sharp needles of incandescent crimson light!
“FEDERAL INQUEST!
CORDON ESTABLISHED!
ALL OCCUPANTS SPREAD YOUR FINGERS FLAT ON THE BULKHEADS!
DO NOT REACH FOR POCKETS!”
Two crimson laser dots locked dead-center onto Tyler Mercer’s forehead!
Two locked onto Vanessa Sterling’s five-carat diamond ring!
Two locked onto the leather flight kit sitting at Tyler’s feet!
