““If something went wrong out in the desolate mountains of Iran, that was the end. No one would be coming to rescue them. Their country would refuse to acknowledge that they even existed — that they ever had been her citizens, much less her warriors. That was the whole idea. Deniability. Even if the mission was a success, if they made it back to the extraction zone with the missing archaeologists, they would receive none of the credit for it. They would slip away like wraiths into the night, going back to their jobs until the call came again. Glory was dangerous””
