Chapter Nine
Rafe was intrigued to notice that his mind had flashed back to the Iraq experience that had formed part of the basis for his plan to rescue Nicole from the grips of her addictions. He also realized that in the heat of the moment of his punishment of her for running away the previous night, he had enacted a fair portion of the torture that his friend had employed so effectively all those years ago. The information that the young bomber had given up during her switching guided a series of raids that put an early serious dent in the intifada and began turning around the cluster-f**k that the war had degenerated into by that date in 2007. If it had not been wholly off the books, that incident could have been the evidence to support the use of such measures when necessary. But ins
