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Before he could leave for America, Tom had to deal with the Chechens and be assured that his family was safe. On the phone he had agreed to one more meeting with Vlad, this time at the Australian Museum.
They had shot Bell as a threat; he trusted his instincts, so he needed to plan his strategy before meeting them. As his CO at Duntroon would say, “An i***t with a plan will outwit a genius without one.”
Tom went to his gym in the garage and opened a large weights box. He lifted out the 20-kilogram dumbbells, revealing a stainless-steel lid with a keyhole. He unscrewed one dumbbell, took a small key from the hollow of the bar, and then inserted the key inside the stainless-steel cover and twisted left, then right, then left. The open box revealed an assortment of pistols, explosives,
