TERROR BLOODLINE Series Book 1
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CROSSFIRE Book #1
Terror Bloodline Series
Featuring Ex-CIA Agent, Jon Bradley
By Paul Rodricks
International fast-paced Action #Thriller
# Suspense #Adventure
#Crime #Mystery
Reviews:
"A Contemporary Masterwork of Mystery, Thriller & Suspense!" The author has the ability to lure the reader into this dark and murky world - kicking and screaming if need be!"
"The novel is multidimensional. There are several plot elements working simultaneously that the author handles with skill. The murder of his friend and the personal relationship between Jon and his lady friend, a rape victim, add depth to the novel. The story shifts between the current investigation and his previous, very dangerous, actions in Lebanon as a CIA operative."
"The fact that it is the first of three books makes Crossfire all that more compelling plus it's a fun to read. Paul POV shifts from telling a story to the illusion of real time which creates a healthy tension throughout. One of the finer elements in the book that helps make it authentic is the authors knowledge of the geo areas where the story takes place."
Read here the Preview of the CHAPTER ONE from this book, CROSSFIRE:
CHAPTER ONE
New York City - 2006
FBI Counterterrorism Division
Saturday - 2.30 AM
The striking urgency of their mission was the reason for their meeting in the early hours of the morning.
Ex-CIA, Jonathan Bradley, aged 44 years, an FBI appointee in the capacity of Supervisory Special Agent, was the last person to enter the room.
He noticed the look of impatience on the face of Steve Turner - SAC, the Special Agent-in-Charge, who surpassed him both in authority and rank. Turner was a couple of years older to him and with a prepossessing appearance. He was good-looking, intelligent and well-built like someone who exercised frequently, and carried himself with an air of authority.
The other two FBI agents, SSA - Senior Special Agent, Allan Banks, and SA - Special Agent, William King, in their late and early thirties respectively, also looking physically fit and alert to their tasks, seemed unconcerned. They were close working associates of Jon in this particular operation.
All present were mindful of Bradley's recent personal calamity following the recent brutal assault and rape of his long-standing lady friend, Samantha Clarke – one of the Assistant District Attorneys in the NYPD’s Justice Department. Her alleged abuser was still at large.
All, however, realized the importance of this meeting despite deprivation of sleep and personal problems.
Bradley and his FBI team had been in the midst of closing down on a recently detected Islamist-Jihadist terrorist cell of suicide-bombers, clandestinely operating from the New York City suburbs.
FBI’s investigations revealed that the Jihadists belonged to the feared Shi’ite extremist Hezbollah group.
Four radicalized Arab-Americans; three Lebanese and one Saudi formed the terror-cell, supposedly of suicide bombers.
Hezbollah Islamic militants forcibly occupied southern Lebanon, and were exporting foreign terrorism against the Western, Asian and African countries via the active sponsorship of the Shia’ Iranian and Syrian governments, and other rogue mid-eastern countries, whilst purportedly fighting the Palestinian cause.
An elusive former Lebanese diplomat turned Hezbollah protagonist, under the façade of many businesses-fronts, one of which was an international arms trade, was suspected to be the mastermind behind the sleeper Islamic-Jihadist cells operating in a number of countries.
He was allegedly responsible for arming the extremists to carry out terror acts in Indonesia, Philippines and Africa against American and Western people, and their interests there.
Jon had vague suspicions about who, this particular rogue arms trader overseeing the New York Jihadist cell, might be. He was beginning to believe that they might have crossed paths during his CIA tenure in Beirut.
FBI’s investigations so far had revealed that the terror-cell clandestinely operating from Yonkers in the New City suburbs had plans to carry out two simultaneous, spectacular suicide missions.
They would first seize the two Jewish synagogues in the Manhattan and Bronx districts on the same day and at the same time, then create a hostage-like situation, blockading the two premises.
Their modus operandi was to draw public attention by initially killing a couple of hostages, provoking an encounter with the law-enforcement authorities, finally murdering the hostages and suffering martyrdom. Despite efforts by the Jihadist’s cell to maintain extreme secrecy, it was not to be so.
To be continued...