CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
The barrel of the MP5 wavered shakily in his grip. His palm was sweating and his shoulder was already aching from the chase and the bullet that had grazed him. Zero slowly lowered the gun, trying to process what Carver had told him.
“Why? How?”
“You changed the game when you went to Pierson directly,” Carver told him. “Despite everything they try to tell him about you and your intentions, you still planted a seed of doubt in his head. He refuses to openly declare war on Iran. Now they’re closing the strait. It’s a huge wrench in their plot. And this was a very expensive plot, Zero. They’re not just going to give up on it.”
“But… killing Pierson?” He shook his head. He couldn’t conceive of a higher form of treason, of betrayal, of deceit. “Did you actually hear someo
