Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
A Dreamland Thriller
Whiplash
Contents
Dreamland: Duty Roster
March 2012
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NURI ABAAJMED LUPO STEPPED OFF THE TRAIN FROM Naples and…
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AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME NURI LUPO WAS SCRAMBLING in…
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NURI’S HEART DROPPED A BEAT AS HE STARED AT THE…
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DANNY FREAH’S INITIAL REACTION TO GENERAL MAGNUS’S offer was thanks,…
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THERE WAS NO GRAND FUNERAL FOR RAFI LUO, NO FINE…
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DANNY FREAH FOUND HIS EXCITEMENT GROWING AS HE made the…
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FOR AN OFFICER WHO SPENT MOST OF HIS TIME IN…
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DANNY FREAH PULLED HIS YELLOW BASEBALL CAP LOWER as the…
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WHILE DANNY FREAH WAS DECIDING HOW TO BEST IMPRESS the…
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AFTER THEIR ADVENTURE WITH THE SUDANESE ARMY, NEITHER Danny nor…
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LISTENING TO RED HENRI PONTIFICATE ABOUT HOW HE FINANCED his…
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NURI WOKE THE NEXT MORNING WITH A KILLER HEADACHE and…
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THE JEEPS THAT DANNY HAD SEEN DID NOT BELONG TO…
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THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS FOR DANNY AND THE OTHERS…
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“TEN MINUTES UNTIL YOUR MEETING WITH THE ADMIRAL, Ms. Stockard.”
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NURI PUT HIS HAND INTO HIS POCKET, SLIPPING HIS FINGERS…
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“HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT EVOLVING INTO THE LOWEST form…
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THE TOYOTA LAND CRUISERS SHONE LIKE BLACK DIAMONDS in the…
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AS SOON AS THE ARMS DEALER WAS IN HIS TRUCK,…
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BOSTON INSISTED ON COLLECTING THE SUBMACHINE GUNS from the mercenary…
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BANI ABERHADJI WAS IN A BAD MOOD. THE COUNCIL HAD…
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FOR THE WHIPLASH TEAM, LISTENING IN ON WHAT WAS HAPPENING…
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BY THE TIME UNCLE DPAP USED THE PHONE DANNY HAD…
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COLONEL ZSAR TYPICALLY POSTED A SINGLE GUARD ON the road…
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DANNY’S BUTTERFLIES MORPHED INTO BEASTS, ROILING HIS stomach. Everyone around…
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NURI WALKED AROUND THE BACK OF THE BARN. THERE WERE…
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DANNY DOVE TO THE GROUND AS RED HENRI BEGAN FIRING.
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LEANING UP AGAINST THE WALL OF THE BARN BUILDING, just…
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BOSTON THREW THE LAND CRUISER INTO REVERSE EVEN AS Danny…
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NURI LAY ACROSS THE RAFTERS ABOVE THE SHEETROCK, waiting as…
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THE VOICE TOLD DANNY THERE WAS A ROAD TO THE…
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WITHIN HOURS OF NURI’S RETURN FROM BLEMMYES Village, his discovery…
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WHILE THE PRESIDENT WAS MEETING WITH HER ADVISORS, Danny and…
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“IF IRAN IS TRYING TO CIRCUMVENT THE AGREEMENT THEY just…
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EVEN THE DIRT IN AFRICA WAS DIFFERENT THAN IN AMERICA.
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BANI ABERHADJI COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT HE WAS HEARING. The president…
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OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING, THE GOAL OF THE OPERATION against the Sudan…
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BREANNA WAS JUST SECURING HER GEAR IN HER OFFICE ON…
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FOR NEARLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS AZERBAIJAN IN THE southern Caucasus…
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BREANNA PICKED UP THE PHONE A SPLIT SECOND AFTER IT…
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IT WAS A LITTLE OVER 250 MILES FROM BAKU TO…
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DANNY HAD LEFT BOSTON AND SUGAR TO PAY OFF THE…
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WHILE THE VEHICLES THEMSELVES WERE MOSTLY A DECADE or two…
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TEHRAN HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE A FOREIGN PLACE TO ARASH…
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“AT LEAST FORTY MEN THERE, CHIEF.” SUGAR HANDED BACK the…
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HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD IN ROOM 4 ON THE CIA’S…
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AS SOON AS THEY HEARD THE SIREN, THE MEN WHO…
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GREASY HANDS PARSONS WAS ABOUT TO GRAB HIMSELF A beer…
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AS TARID HAD FEARED, HE DID NOT SLEEP AT ALL…
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BANI ABERHADJI HAD SCHEDULED HIS MEETING WITH TARID for the…
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DANNY’S INTERVENTION AS KIRK MEANT HE WASN’T AVAILABLE to fix…
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BREANNA HAD FLOWN C-17S OFF AND ON FOR YEARS AS…
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FLASH PICKED UP THE OTHERS IN THE VAN HE’D RENTED…
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BOSTON, SUGAR, AND ABUL SPENT A DIFFICULT NIGHT SLEEPING in…
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JONATHON REID HAD JUST BEGUN TO PORE OVER THE LATEST…
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CHRISTINE MARY TODD HAD BEEN A NIGHT OWL FOR MUCH…
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“THEY’RE GETTING READY FOR SOMETHING,” SAID SUGAR, standing on top…
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LANDING THE MC-17 AT DIRE DAWA WAS EASY ENOUGH. The…
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SUGAR TRACKED THE PICKUP TRUCKS AS THEY CROSSED off the…
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THE PERIMETER OF THE FIELDS BEHIND THE BUILDING WHERE Tarid…
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BREANNA HADN’T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE REFUGEES, BUT they were pushed…
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IT WAS COMPLETELY DARK BY THE TIME DANNY AND HERA…
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BY THE TIME BREANNA GOT BACK TO THE OSPREY, THE…
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“WE HAVE TO GET OUT NOW,” DANNY TOLD HERA, MOVING…
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PRESIDENT TODD HAD JUST FINISHED SHAKING HANDS WITH the National…
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TARID SPENT A MISERABLE AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN Tehran. While…
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BREANNA REALIZED THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE SUDAN weapons material…
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DANNY WATCHED THE SMALL SCREEN AS THREE MEN LEFT the…
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THE CAB DRIVER WAS A TALKATIVE SORT, BABBLING ON TO…
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THE VOICE DIRECTED DANNY AND HERA TO AN ABANDONED farm…
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FROM THE LAYOUT OF THE AIRPORT GROUNDS, NURI THOUGHT it…
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PRESIDENT TODD STUDIED THE VIDEO IMAGE ON THE SCREEN at…
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TARID’S HEAD CLEARED AS THE CAB TOOK HIM BACK TO…
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BREANNA LEANED BACK IN THE COPILOT’S SEAT AND PULLED off…
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“SO WE’RE SUPPOSED TO SIT HERE AND WATCH THEM launch…
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THE PRESIDENT HAD JUST REACHED THE OVAL OFFICE WHEN her…
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BREANNA AND THE C-17 PILOT, CAPTAIN FREDERICK, HAD just settled…
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DANNY PUSHED DOWN THE RAVINE, CUTTING TOWARD THE rear of…
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SOME SIXTY MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST, NURI AND FLASH had…
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DANNY DIDN’T REALIZE THE WIRES TO THE MY-PID CONTROL unit…
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THE ABORTED ATTEMPT ON THE PRESIDENT OF IRAN HAD sent…
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SEVERAL ARMY VEHICLES PASSED NURI AND FLASH AS THEY made…
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SENATOR JEFFREY “ZEN” STOCKARD ROLLED HIS WHEELCHAIR forward as the…
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Dreamland: Duty Roster
Lieutenant General (Ret.) Harold Magnus
Magnus once supervised Dreamland from afar. With Colonel Tecumseh “Dog” Bastian as its on-the-scene commander, the organization succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. Now as Deputy Secretary of Defense, Magnus hopes to repeat those successes with Whiplash. His hand-picked commander: Bastian’s daughter, Breanna Stockard.
Breanna Stockard
After retiring from the U.S. Air Force to raise her daughter and help her husband’s political career, Breanna found herself bored with home life. She was lured back to a job supervising the development of high-tech wizardry under a combined CIA and Pentagon program. But will she be happy behind a desk when her agents are in trouble?
Jonathon Reid
Reid’s official title is Special Assistant to the Deputy Director Operations, CIA. Unofficially, he’s the go-to guy for all black projects, the dirtier the better. He knows how to get around agency politics. More important, he knows where all the agency’s bodies are buried—he buried half of them himself.