TERROR BLOODLINE Series Book 1
CROSSFIRE Book #1
Terror Bloodline Series
Featuring Ex-CIA Agent, Jon Bradley
5-Star Review: "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."
Read here the Preview of the CHAPTER FOUR (continuation) from this Thriller,
CROSSFIRE
CHAPTER FOUR
BEIRUT, Lebanon - 1993
American Embassy
Robert Armstrong
left Beirut two weeks later. Salim said
his final goodbye to him at a farewell dinner at the Beirut’s Strand Café. He would next rotate between Kuwait and
Dubai.
Jonathan Bradley
plunged into his work. It was April in
Lebanon, when the day was warm and dry and the evenings long and cools at
19–25°C.
Through his links
with agent Salim, they were able to prevent the kidnapping of his Station
Chief, Richard Darwin, by a last minute change of the venue of his meeting with
Wilson Macleod, the Head of the American University. Both escaped possibe
assassination by a rebel Phlangist
group.
Another
instance was that Salim’s advance intelligence information about the possible suicide
attack by two Jihadists from a Hamas group of militants on the British
Consulate building.
First, the
Jihadists plotted to fire a stinger missile blasting through the entrance checkpoint
and immediately follow up by ramming an explosive-laden vehicle deep into the
main entrance.
MI6 agents from the
British Embassy coordinated with the Lebanese Security Forces to foil the
planned attack.
On route to their
target, the Jihadists unexpectedly found the roundabout barricaded by heavy construction machinery vehicles.
As they slowed
down, two cars on either side of the road overtook them. Then two more came up from behind. Before they could judge the situation and
react, both terrorists were shot dead whilst seated inside the moving car.
There
were dangerous places to be avoided in Beirut and Lebanon, particularly by the American
and European nationals, such as the city of Tripoli and the Hezbollah
controlled Valley, parts of south Beirut and northern Lebanon, and areas
bordering Syria. There was often cross-border firing and air-strikes by the
Syrians.
Rockets continued
to be fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel increasing the conflicts
in the Gaza West Bank, between the Hamas and Israel, while the latter retaliated
by air strikes and occupying the Palestine territory.
Actually, Jonathan
Bradley found that no place was really safe in Beirut, or for that matter in Lebanon. Public demonstrations, sudden roadblocks,
kidnappings, car bombings, frequent armed clashes between militants, targeting
particular individuals or venues, settling family and sectarian disputes by violence, often at the cost of the innocent
lives of the bystanders. This had become the way of a normal life for the
people of this region.
Jonathan Bradley
lived and operated under such unpredictable conditions until his rotation to
Saudi Arabia, to complete his next tour there.
Finally back again in
Beirut, where he was put in charge of tracking down an elusive international
arms trader, an alleged undercover Hezbollah terrorist, who masterminded terror
strikes and suicide bombings both in Lebanon and abroad.
This last tour in
Beirut almost ending his active career with the CIA, would entail crossing a
deceptive path, also involving the Mossad spy network, by challenging his wits
to undo the strands woven by the femme fatale MI6 operative, Claire O’Neal, and
the deviously charming Lebanese Christian warlord.
Chapter Four Ends
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