Sam Fisher- Hostage Taker Headshot

  Briggs lifted his rifle.

  As did Fisher.

  Freeing the hostages would require three perfectly timed and placed shots. Even the slightest miscalculation might allow one of Chern’s men to reflexively pull his trigger and kill his hostage.

  Fisher hoped that any lingering doubts Briggs might’ve had were already put to bed—because he was taking two shots while Fisher took one, focusing all of his attention on the dark-haired Russian clutching the cowboy.
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  “Come on, Sam, I got a bead,” said Briggs.

  “On three,” answered Fisher. He counted down while staring through his night-vision scope, the reticle centered over the Russian’s head as the man walked toward the plane.

  Fisher took a deep breath.

  Exhaled halfway.

  And slowly squeezed the trigger. The hammer strike was, indeed, a surprise, and before the round even left his muzzle, he could tell this was a good shot.

  The round struck the Russian’s head, knocking him forward, onto his stomach.

  Briggs’s rifle cracked a nanosecond after Fisher’s, and another of Chern’s men took a round just left of his ear and tumbled sideways, away from the mechanic he’d been escorting.

  Then, with remarkable precision, Briggs got on his second target as the man was attempting to hit the deck. Chern’s last associate was a handsome blond man with the trendy hairstyle of a Calvin Klein model. Briggs’s round removed a section of the man’s head before he reached the ground.

- Blacklist Aftermath, Chapter 29