Tom Clancy's Net Force - Night Moves
Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik

(Headline Book Publishing, a division of the Hodder Headline Group)

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This is an excellent book like the rest from these authors. They should be
read.

However, this file is an excerpt concerning Code Levels for direct physical
violence not involving guns or knives. One of the heroes allegedly learned
those Levels from a Commando in South Africa.

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Level One was the mildest, consisting mainly of threats or shoves,
intimidation, without physical injury to the subject.

Level Two was the mild to moderate damage, bruises, perhaps a broken bone or
two, equivalent to a good bar-fight thrashing. A few stitches in the local
doctor's surgery, some pain pills, and a day or two to rest up at home, and
you'd be right as rain.

Level Three was damaging enough to require a stay in hospital; you'd be weeks
or months recovering. A serious encounter.

Level Four meant you would carry reminders of the attack with you for the rest
of your life: you'd be crippled with a torn-out knee or ankle, or perhaps
crushed hands; you might lose your hearing or an eye, or be otherwise maimed.
Recovery would be slow and painful - and you'd never be as complete as you had
been before.

Level Five was terminal. A subject was to be made to suffer much pain, to know
what he had done, and to have time enough to regret having done it before
passing away.