He grins, and again I think the big runner’s reading me like a fragging trideo listing. "It’s the military connection, Wolf," he explains. "Full-on military, and that’s the big difference. You take a good shadow team—like my old squad, the Wrecking Crew. We’d be like a Special Forces fire team. Tough as snot for infiltration, sabotage, and hit-and-run actions. But pin us down in a toe-to-toe, stand-up fight with a single squad of army regulars, and we’re fragging rat-bait, and that’s all she wrote."