Dan was building a company to help implement a ‘national water policy’.  Excess flood waters would be siphoned off into ‘over flow drains’ and transported by pipelines to rejuvenate depleted aquifers.  He hired young college graduates for their enthusiasm and fresh skills; and, he hired combat veterans for their loyalty to the team and perseverance to the mission.  They were a tight team … like family.

Suddenly, one of the college graduates came into work and announced that her sister, Jill, had been kidnapped while on church service project to Costa Rica.  The kidnappers were slow to present a ransom offer … things persisted to drag on.  It was taking too long … something was amiss.

Some of the combat veterans approached Dan asked when they were ‘going in’ to get her out.  They developed a plan to do just that, if the ransom process failed.