PART ONE: THE POSITION
6:47 AM — Abandoned Building, Manhattan Skyline View
Ghost adjusted the scope on his rifle for the seventh time that morning.
The adjustment wasn’t necessary. He’d already calculated the distance seventeen times. 847 meters from the abandoned office building to the Moretti Foundation’s main entrance. Wind speed: 3.2 miles per hour from the northeast. Temperature: 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity factoring in at approximately 67 percent. All variables accounted for. All calculations verified.
But he adjusted anyway because the repetition kept his mind from circling.
His left eye socket ached. It always did in the mornings, when the weather was cool and the muscles around the scarred tissue were tight. He pressed his palm against the patch he wore and felt the fami
