In the only case I know about personally -- I was there -- the
guy went down shooting at us with an AK. Didn't stop firing until he ran the
clip dry. By then Cade had returned fire and put four rounds in him. It was a
clean shoot, ma'am. The guy died pulling the trigger. As far as I know, all his
kills have been like that. Nasty to the end."
"One thing, ma'am," said the woman, "Cade doesn't shoot to wound or
incapacitate. If he shoots at all, he shoots to kill. That's what some of the
flak's been about in his records, but the fact is, we all do the same thing.
This outfit doesn't deal with muggers and burglars. We mostly get the diehards
and psychos. At our end of things, if you pop a guy in the leg and yell 'drop
the gun', chances are real good he'll kill you when he goes down shooting."
The guy beside her chuckled and said, "Cade's just been in a lot of wrong
places at wrong times. Like Cindy said, he always had a real talent for that."
Mandi chatted with them about some of the things they'd been through to try
to get a perspective on Cade's agency performance, but by the time she'd been
called into John's anteroom office, she'd begun to have some misgivings about
having converted Cade.
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