Five minutes later, they heard a double squelch-break on their radios and two of the SWAT men rushed out of the trees toward a stretch of fence at the rear of the compound. The muffled cutters bit into the chain almost soundlessly and opened a vertical slit that was peeled back to allow the raid team to enter. As Shake and Mike followed Bolivar’s policemen through the gap, they saw a Zeta sentry on the ground, unconscious and gagged with his hands and feet bound by flex-cuffs. Walt was clearly a capable professional. They hadn’t heard a sound from the encounter. Walt was kneeling at the left-hand corner of the warehouse looking cool and unperturbed as he motioned for the rest of the raid team to stack up on him.
Shake and Mike followed Bolivar and his people around the north side of the b
