Today’s excerpt is from Back
to Iraq, Book #2 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Recently married, Tom Wilson has to explain
to his new wife about the Janitors in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic
terrorist 9/11 attack on America. Enjoy
and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
In
short, every one of Tom’s friends had impressed her. There was one thing, however, she did not
know, and that, she was about to find out.
Like a vast majority of Americans, Tom and Jessica were watching
television, with tears rolling down Jessica’s face, Tom clenching and
unclenching his fists and swearing quite often.
After news came in about the plane going down in Pennsylvania, Tom
reached over and turned off the small office TV set. “Jessie, there’s something we must discuss.”
Jessica
pointed at the TV. “But, Tom...”
“Sorry,
honey, that will have to wait. Sometime
soon, I’m going to be getting a phone call.
Not much after that—my guess would be a day or two—I’ll be going to
Washington and probably will be gone for an extended period of time.”
Jessica
Wilson was not a naive little girl. From
the time she had known Tom, about every six to eight weeks he would announce he
was going away on business and always left her in charge of the business for
the ten or so days he was gone. Now she shook
her head. “Those ten-day trips you’ve
been taking every two months didn’t have a damn thing to do with
‘business.’ I knew something was up with
that, but didn’t know what. I like all
your friends, but they all seem to have a certain edge to them. Now that I think about it, so do you. Are you CIA or something?”
“Or
something. Jim Scott heads up a group of
‘advisors’ to the President. I’m part of
that group. The ‘business’ trips were
for training. Jim wants all of us to be
able to mesh as a unit, if and when we go into the field.”
“Wait
a minute! Advisors to the President…the
President of the United States? The guy
in the Oval Office?”
“The
same.”
“Just
what do you advise him on, and what does that have to do with going into
the field? Field as in going out
and getting shot at? Like some Army guys
or something?”
“Or
something.”
“You
say that again and I’m going to punch you.”
“Jessie,
simmer down. Let me explain the whole
thing,” which he did.
When
Tom was finished, Jessie took his face in her hands and kissed him. “Wow!
I’m scared for you, but proud of you, too. And if you go after the guys responsible for
this…this abomination, kill a couple of them for me! When you go to Washington, I know I’ll have
to stay here and keep the business running, but will you be able to stay in
touch and let me know what’s up?”
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