Ultimate Firepower

Joelson used a process of elimination.

He treated everyone entering the embassy as a suspect and eliminated them one by one. If they truly could be cleared of suspicion, he’d abandon surveillance. But as long as he couldn’t completely rule out doubt, he’d monitor them closely.

Especially those whose suspicions grew the more he investigated—Joelson was just short of taking matters into his own hands.

Alas, the CIA was currently divided into two factions internally bickering, not yet at the point of civil war. Joelson had been granted more authority than before, but he still didn’t have absolute control.

Moreover, the embassy didn’t only house a CIA intelligence unit—there were offices for the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA, and even Grasse had his own office within the embassy.

The largest embassy in the Middle East was also the largest intelligence center, and that was no joke.

The most Joelson could do was to locate Burning Wind; the idea of relying on him to eliminate Burning Wind was out of the question.

Now, Joelson’s two suspects included one who had entered through the staff passage before the embassy doors opened that morning, secretly ushered in by the CIA.

Everything seemed right—it should be Burning Wind. However, having seen Burning Wind once in Libya, Joelson judged that this person, who clearly resembled Burning Wind, had a different body type from the one he’d seen, which meant this person was an impostor.

Another was a diplomatic advisor who had just entered the embassy, unrelated to the CIA. This person’s profile showed no signs of suspicion, but Joelson couldn’t observe him because he simply couldn’t see him.