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om Ellis was a former Army Staff Sergeant who left the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Fort Lewis three years earlier to hook up as a contract security man in a pool of former special operators maintained by the Pentagon. He had special FBI training in Executive Protection work to qualify him for detached duty with American Embassies in a number of worldwide hot-spots. That background was the reason Ellis and his partner with similar experience were selected to form a special security detail for Carlos Ruiz-Romero during his stay at Guantanamo Bay.
Shake knew all about that from the file Gerheim provided before they went into the interview room. According to Gerheim who had interrogated the man twice already, Ellis was cooperative at first but was now complaining that he’d
