Assassination of an ISIS Field Commander in Washington D.C.
By Mike Ward
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Stephen Haggerty used to work for the British SAS. He was trained to go into the houses of Gulf Arabs in the Middle East and kill the guards and then the occupants. One day the British government threw Haggerty on the scrap heap and he was reduced to driving trucks for $7 an hour. Three years ago Stephen Haggerty was introduced to an American from Philadelphia and now he has a completely different kind of job for a very secretive organization based in Pennsylvania.
Haggerty lives on an island in the Mediterranean and he is used to flying to the United States and assassinating targets in different cities. When the hit file decrypts in his study Haggerty is surprised to see that the targets are both Arabs and this takes him back immediately to his time in the British SAS.
Khalfan Al Daheri and Najia Al Mamory are planning a massacre in Washington D.C. and it will happen soon. Due to the recent attacks on American and European soil the gloves are off and political correctness is out of the window. The targets will be killed ahead of time and they will be killed in a brutal fashion. Those orders come direct from Washington D.C.
The American government wants the couple taken down ahead of time but the hit cannot be done by an official agency so it must be done unofficially by the Talbot Group. Whilst Stephen Haggerty is scheduled to take out the couple in Washington D.C., another of the group's assassins, Diederik Timmermans, will target another Middle Eastern couple in a different city on the East Coast.
In a government office inside the Washington Beltway, Richard Denning is logged onto a security agency camera in the bedroom of Najia Al Mamory and Khalfan Al Daheri. Both are naked and Al Daheri lies on his back while his wife sits astride him. Denning already knows that the camera is scheduled to be blacked out for six hours sometime in the next ten days. He is also aware that something is imminent because he has been told that on no account can he leave his seat without another employee watching the camera feeds from the house. In the basement are five large boxes which almost certainly hold explosives and weapons. As Denning watches his screen the video feed is cut. In his hotel room, Stephen Haggerty has just received instructions to move. He has four different possible ways he can execute the couple – which one will he choose and will they know he's coming?
Mike Ward
Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas
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Assassination of an ISIS Field Commander in Washington D.C. - Mike Ward
Assassination of an ISIS Field Commander in Washington D.C.
by Mike Ward
(Author of The Banker With a Face Full of Evil)
Copyright 2016 Mike Ward
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Assassination of an ISIS Field Commander in Washington D.C.
Excerpt from Lisa Molin Assassin – One Hell of an Execution in Tallinn in Estonia
About Mike Ward
Other Books by Mike Ward
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Excerpt from The Banker With a Face Full of Evil
Assassination of an ISIS Field Commander in Washington D.C.
Stephen Haggerty was in his study in his house in Mallorca in the Mediterranean when the email came through from Bethany Mitzmacher. The desk in the study was one which he had built himself and it went along one entire wall of the study. There was a computer at either end of the desk. On one computer a hit file had just downloaded from the Talbot Group and a decryption file written by an Indian programmer was decrypting the file. If they so chose the NSA could have read this file because they can read everything but they were one of the few groups in the world that could have read it.
Haggerty was on the other computer and what was on the screen there was profoundly disturbing. Although Haggerty had cut off all contact with Bethany Mitzmacher more than three months ago the email had been sent from the airport at Palma, the capital of Mallorca. With a population of 870,000 people, Mallorca was an island where a man could get lost in and that was one reason Haggerty lived there. Sicily was bigger but the chance of being shot dead by your neighbor over a minor dispute was much higher there. Haggerty had chosen his home carefully and a British man living quietly in the north end of the island attracted very little attention. Haggerty was polite, well mannered and charming in his associations with the Spanish residents of Mallorca and he kept a very low profile. He had never had an argument with a Mallorcan even though there had been several occasions when a Mallorcan had profoundly annoyed him, he had always kept quiet. When he was on the island he drove sedately, was careful not to cut anyone off and he kept a low profile.
Having Bethany Mitzmacher turn up like this could blow that well cultivated image apart in less than a day. Had it been Diederik Timmermans who had received the email then he would probably have met Bethany Mitzmacher halfway at a scenic viewpoint and just thrown her off a cliff but Haggerty could not do that. Although he had killed more people than he could count, underneath he was a decent man who had been shaped by circumstances. In another life he might have been a university professor, a man liked and respected by his students who was looked up to and admired. However, the world had changed since Haggerty was a boy and now such opportunities were gone. The world had been reshaped by those in power and normal people had been made to fight each other for jobs, and for pay rises. Confrontation was the name of the game and only the ruthless could survive in that world. Although the meek might one day inherit the world they were being crushed under the new rules and the world was much worse for it. There had been a time when those who were ruthless were taken down for the common good but now those people got on and they could make life hell for those under them.
Haggerty had spent too much of his life under the control of ruthless people until he had become an assassin and gotten out from under
as he sometimes put it. Haggerty went to church on the island and he often prayed. Sometimes he prayed for himself, more often he prayed for others. Sometimes he prayed for wisdom to be given to the leaders in the West although he knew he was fighting a losing battle with that request. Wisdom would only come to the leaders in the West when war came and those who were selfish and spineless were shunted aside for men like Winston Churchill who led by example, and who did the right thing when it was needed. The church Haggerty went to was a Protestant Church, had he gone to the local Catholic Church then he would have made the hair of the local priest stand on end when it was time for confession.
When Haggerty had joined the S.A.S. he had expected to be given orders by ruthless people and he would have been surprised if that had not been the case. What had surprised him was when he found himself back on Main Street working as a temporary driver being given orders by mindless idiots who would have lasted less than ten seconds if they had to go into the world Haggerty had just left. The rules had been rewritten and some of these minor people had incredible power over the people who had to line up and beg for jobs. In the 1960s such people would have been told to go and screw themselves by any self-respecting British worker but those days were gone now. Haggerty occasionally dreamed of walking back into the temporary driver office and beating his former employer to death in front of the other people in the office but he knew that could never happen. Haggerty wondered where people had gotten the idea that anything they did at work didn't count when it was time to go on to the next world.
Haggerty came out of thoughts and read the email from Bethany Mitzmacher. Although Bethany's world had taken a big hit when her father had died it appeared from her email that this had only been the tip of the iceberg. Haggerty read further and found out that Bethany's mother and her brother were in jail, and the reason they were in jail was that Bethany's father had been running an investment scam and some very rich people had lost a lot of money. That was a dangerous thing to do. If you scammed the poor or the middle class you could often get away with it but if you scammed the rich then you better have a good exit strategy. It appeared that Manfred Mitzmacher had had a lot of balls in the air at once and with his death many of them had come tumbling down. Bethany didn't know the full details but the cold hard fact was that there was a lot of money missing and nobody knew where it was, not even Bethany's mother or brother.
Another email came through from Bethany saying that she had just hired a car and would be at Haggerty's house in just over an hour. Although Haggerty was fine with going into somebody's house and killing them, this was a situation he could not easily handle. Did he stand at the door, coldly refuse entry to Bethany and tell her he would not see her anymore? Although there were men around who could do that, Haggerty knew he was not one of them. He glanced over at the hit file that was decrypting on the other computer. The file would be decrypted soon. Bethany had never been in his study and she never would be allowed access. It was the one room in his house that was off limits to any visitor. He always used the mining company cover story when he needed secrecy and although Bethany would want to get into that room he knew that she would not be able to. Haggerty actually had another room in his house that was also a study and that was his official study. It had a computer in it too and that was where he paid all his bills from, it was where he kept most of his records and it was where he kept his official tax statements. Had the Inland Revenue, which was the British version of the IRS, had access to Haggerty's other records, the ones which showed the balance in his Swiss bank account then he would have a very large tax demand in the mail.
Although Haggerty kept his house clean he went downstairs and tidied up. Nothing he could do or say would stop Bethany turning up at his house. Harold Pendleton had known this could happen and he had taken Haggerty aside at the group's Philadelphia offices and talked to him. Pendleton had told him that if it were Diederik Timmermans then he would not even be having this conversation. Pendleton had told Haggerty that if Bethany ever did show up then he could have her quietly and quickly disposed of by making just one phone call to Pendleton. "We don't