Rolling up his left sleeve Pat saw that Deckard was using a interesting but somewhat anachronistic weapon, a garrote wire. On his left wrist Deckard wore a leather bracelet around which was wrapped some medium gauge piano wire that led to a small wooden dowel on the other end. At the moment the dowel was held in place by a rubber band on the bracelet.
Releasing the rubber band, the dowel fell away as Deckard unrolled the piano wire wrapped around the bracelet. It was a technique the Delta operator had never seen before, most garrote wires as commonly thought of were two wooden handholds attached by a few feet of wire. Deckard’s was one handhold, the other secured around the leather bracelet which would protect the wrist.
Remaining in a crouch Deckard moved heel to toe gaining ground over an immaculate Persian carpet towards his target. Only a highly skilled operator could stalk within striking distance to make a nearly silent kill with such a weapon. Pat considered the garrote obsolete; these days weapons manufacturers had entire secret divisions of their production facilities dedicated to developing proprietary weapons for Delta, DevGroup, and the CIA such as subsonic ammunition and guns with integrated sound suppressors.
In the pit of his stomach Pat knew Deckard didn’t have access to such hardware because he was simply making all this up on the fly.
Reflexive Fire 