"Ouch," he answers in a tone just as steady as hers had been. "The last one of mine preferred needles."

But John had been trained to withstand all kinds of torture. He's never once given up any kind of information and while people don't physically get the best of him very often, it's happened once or twice. He's found himself bound and subjected to any number of methods of breaking him and not once has he broken.

"Funny, isn't it? The things people expect will get them results."