Danny Reyes arrived at the compound within thirty-six hours of Cruz's call, his expression carrying the particular gravity of a man who understood exactly how dangerous the task ahead had become.
"I made some calls," he said, spreading a set of documents across the conference table — photographs, service records, the careful reconstruction of a man's professional life assembled through channels that existed, Wren understood, in the careful gray space between official cooperation and old-boy military networking. "Kane's Ranger record checks out exactly as Vasquez's team found it — twenty years of exemplary service, several classified deployments that even I couldn't get full details on, an early retirement that officially reads as voluntary but that two of my old contacts describe very dif
