Today’s excerpt is from Assassin
I Am, a standalone action/adventure book featuring new character Fred
Dupree and several old friends. Fred
tells Rosemary very little about his background and assignment. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
NOTE: This book is not yet up on the bellow web
site. It probably will not be until late
January as my webmaster is having health issues that will require a stay in
hospital. The book can still be found at
Amazon’s Kindle Book Store.
“Sorry, classified…except
for my Army duty. I was Special Forces.”
“Oh, that
explains a lot. As I said, just being
nosey. Classified, I can understand.”
Actually Fred
had been part of Delta Force…a key senior officer in on nearly all operations
of the group. Against the wishes of his
superiors, he led attacks on more than one occasion. When he had been a major, there had been no
problem with him leading missions. That
changed when he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. Told he could no longer go on missions, he
devised a method of doing so anyway—he simply ‘went along to view progress from
a distance’. This, of course, fooled no
one, because his idea of ‘a distance’ was often about a foot. When he was promoted to Colonel, the ‘brass’
put a stop to that. The stop lasted for
two missions, then he found one reason after another to go into the field.
Within Delta
Force he was revered as a no-nonsense, but fair, leader. In dealing with Islamists, Fred was
ruthless—bringing prisoners back was not in his makeup. But his record of obtaining valuable
intelligence and eliminating key figures in the Islamist movements caused
everyone to ignore the lack of captured foes to be brought back alive.
On several
occasions, he worked with various CIA operatives, and that led to the CIA’s
hunger to have him as one of their own.
The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Director of the CIA came up
with a plan to utilize Fred’s capabilities inside the United States. Harvey Puckett, a high-ranking Assistant Director of the National
Clandestine Service within the CIA, was approached to run the operation Fred
would undertake.
Since the CIA is forbidden from
operating within the borders of the United States, Harvey agreed to transfer to
Homeland Security. When Fred was
approached with the plan—and it was agreed he could retire a Brigadier
General—he was hired directly into Homeland Security, but with the
understanding the CIA would be unofficially involved. His job was to find and eliminate various
Islamist terrorists inside America; in short, he was to be an assassin. No records would be kept, and no credit would
be claimed for the dead terrorists—no matter their importance—by Homeland
Security or the CIA.
If any bodies
were discovered along the way and other agencies—or even Homeland Security
investigators, tried to determine who had killed the terrorist in question—so
be it. The four men who knew of the
operation were aware their actions were strictly illegal and all could be
prosecuted if it ever came to light what was actually going on. With that in mind, Harvey was very careful in
selecting any support staff (such as pilots) who would assist Fred in any
way. The cover story for him was that he
was assigned to track down terrorists and pass the information of their whereabouts
on to Harvey, who would contact agencies…such as the FBI…to either monitor or
arrest the terrorists once found. In
fact, in some cases, that actually happened when a known terrorist was allowed
to move about freely under observation of the assets assigned to do so. But most often, Fred just captured,
questioned, and killed the Islamists.
Where possible, the bodies were disposed of. Where it wasn’t convenient to do so, he
simply left them behind and let other authorities try to figure out what had
happened.
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