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Herausgeber: Stonewall Stories LLC
Kategorie: Abenteuer, Thriller, Horror
Sprache: Englisch

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Red, a somewhat troubled agent of Britain’s MI6, investigates a tribal massacre near the border of Kenya and South Sudan, and quickly discovers why the Kenyan authorities called MI6 for help: the slaughter has global implications, spanning well beyond the borders of Kenya and Africa. Red soon finds herself traveling down a rabbit hole into a perilous world created by a maniacal former KGB official whose goal is to restore the Soviet Union to its former glory. Along her investigation, she crosses paths with Jake Kessler, who is reporting on a human-interest story about the former body doubles for Saddam Hussein. The pair find their divergent investigations intersecting as they pursue the elusive Saddam double, Jabal Shamoon, whose exploits extend far beyond the Middle East. Red and Jake are forced to reconcile their past differences while investigating a two-pronged plot that, if successful, would destroy the power-center of Western civilization. But can Red and Jake learn to trust each other despite their tragic history? And will they be able to prevent the looming catastrophe?

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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

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Leseprobe

Along her investigation, she crosses paths with Jake Kessler, who is reporting on a human-interest story about the former body doubles for Saddam Hussein. The pair find their divergent investigations intersecting as they pursue the elusive Saddam double, Jabal Shamoon, whose exploits extend far beyond the Middle East. Red and Jake are forced to reconcile their past differences while investigating a two-pronged plot that, if successful, would destroy the power-center of Western civilization. But can Red and Jake learn to trust each other despite their tragic history? And will they be able to prevent the looming catastrophe?

Table of Contents

Book Description

Title Page

Acknowledgements

PART ONE

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

PART TWO

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

PART THREE

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

About the Author

DOUBLE CONUNDRUM

by Scott A. Dondershine

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents in this book are entirely the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Publisher – Stonewall Stories, LLC

Formatting by Anessa Books

Acknowledgements

I could not have written this book without the assistance of a few special people in my life. My wife Diane, children Alex and Zachary, brother Steven, and father-in-law Edward Miller provided me with a mixture of space, editing advice, encouragement, and love that helped me along the journey. I remain eternally grateful. I also want to acknowledge the help of a variety of people who provided me with technical and writing assistance: my Agent Nancy Rosenfeld, professional editors Nina Catanese (plot development) and Beth Skony (copy-editing), Tim Colwell and Michael Adelberg (early-stage plot development and editing), and Tim Bell and Gil Armendariz (technical assistance).

PART ONE

THE WHITE MAN COMETH

Chapter 1 London

Red’s ringing cell phone woke her from her sleep. She looked across her bed. Some guy was snoring, his disheveled hair flopped on the soft pillow, nose streaked with sweat. She struggled to remember his name. Mike? Or, perhaps, Charlie? Does it really matter?

Red pawed after the phone, blindly searching the wooden nightstand, hoping to avoid knocking something over. It wasn’t there. She next tried the sheets, praying it wasn’t close to the sleeping stranger. At last she found it, nestled between the sheets and the fluffy white duvet.

Her head was pounding, even though she hadn’t had that much to drink the night before. At least I’m not an alkie, she thought. She had actually stopped drinking altogether for a number of years, in part testing the idea and in part, well, for other reasons.

“Hello,” she whispered into the phone.

Monty, her boss, laughed. “Whispering? Tough night? Thought you swore off alcohol. Meet me in thirty minutes.” He hung up before Red could respond.

Red looked over at her companion and poked him in the ass. “You need to leave. Now.”

He looked up at her. “But…”

“No buts. We shagged, that’s all, now bugger off. I need to go to work. When I get out of the shower, you and your pecker better be gone.”

Red marched off to the bathroom while the nameless man pulled on his clothes. A few minutes later she heard the front door slam, to her relief. Sometimes it was hard to get rid of a man. They can act like gum stuck on one’s favorite shoe.

Red, now free, looked in the mirror. She admired her toned muscles and curves, but not the rest. Her red hair, usually shiny and groomed, looked dull and shaggy. Her eye shadow had leaked to slightly beneath her eyes, smudging her normally clear complexion.

She took a moment to reflect on her life, something she often did the morning after a long night. She had joined MI6 after reading an article about enrolling in the Security, Languages, Intelligence, and Photography College, SLIP for short. Her father wasn’t pleased when she told him. He laughed and said, “Girls in spy school? Have you gone bonkers?” His reaction hardened her resolve.

Red grew up on a farm a few hours’ drive from Gloucester. The farm had been in Pa’s family for years, and he worked on it his entire life. It defined him, and he defined it.

Red’s father was difficult – on his best days – always loaded, constantly berating the family. Life became unbearable after her brother, Jimmy, nearly lost his life, lapsing into a coma after the loft in the family barn collapsed on him.

Red was only seven at the time of Jimmy’s accident, but her father began to rely on her to replace the farm work Jimmy had performed. Red hated it, and her father resented her subpar performance, making him even more irate. He began to drink heavily, beginning a vicious cycle of more verbal abuse, causing Red to do even worse, enraging her father even more. He missed his son, and Red missed out on her childhood.

SLIP offered Red the opportunity to escape. She enjoyed being off the farm away from her dad, and she began working as an agent after graduating. Life was good. She was liberated, felt challenged and important – for the first time in her life. At least until she made a catastrophic mistake that would haunt her for years to come.

***

The flat was sparsely furnished. The living room, with its shiny wooden floor and simple furniture, was spotless – more due to lack of use and a recent cleaning by the maid than Red’s own cleanliness. Her bedroom had a blue shag carpet, a bed, and a dresser – and that was it. Red didn’t spend a lot of time there watching television or relaxing. She didn’t like to dawdle.

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