Absolute Force (A Jake Mercer Political Thriller—Book 3) by Jack Mars

Author:Jack Mars [Mars, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2024-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

As he and Jess rode through Jerusalem, the crowds and traffic grated on him. “How far away are we?” he asked.

Before the driver could respond, Jess said, “about a mile and a half.”

“Stop the car,” Jake said. The driver looked confused but obeyed. Jake jumped out.

"Hang on!" Jess called. "I'm coming!" He didn't slow down, but soon she was next to him as he walked at a very fast pace.

He felt almost disappointed in Hadad. It was a foolish way to feel, he knew. Still, the idea that he wanted to kill the President as part of a business strategy made no sense. It seemed like something out of a comic book villain’s playbook. Kill the President. Wait for the resulting instability and wars that result. Provide the warring parties with guns.

It was all so damned banal.

When Jess first told him that the files he had recovered from Hadad’s underground facility were plans to profit off of the President’s assassination, he assumed that it was a joke or some sort of pathetic attempt at misdirection again. The more they looked at the plans, the more that he realized it wasn’t a joke but actually the terrorist’s strategy.

God, what an idiot. People like Hadad didn’t do well in times of instability. Their bread and butter was slipping through the cracks of a structure. If the structure collapsed, there would be no cracks, just rubble. When there were cracks, rats like Hadad slipped through them easily. When the cracks were gone, rats fared very poorly against the much larger predators who were no longer held outside the walls.

Speaking of walls, or rather one Wall in particular, what in God’s name possessed Bryan to come back here? For God’s sake, what point did he think he was making?

It occurred to Jake bitterly that it was pointless to keep asking this question, pointless to expect the President to ever think logically about the situation. He was convinced that he had to be Napoleon or Churchill or Lincoln or God knows who and demonstrate the strength of the United States by demonstrating the stubbornness of its president.

Instead of flying home, the President had flown to Germany. Instead of prioritizing his safety, he had prioritized the need to bite his thumb at the terrorists.

So he was coming back to the Wall, this time to give another speech and make a big show about how the free world would no longer hide in fear from terrorists but would fight back and prevail due to morality or some bullshit. Jake didn’t understand why the President couldn’t make that point from the Oval Office the way every other President had made since the damned White House was constructed.

Well, it wasn’t as though Jake’s opinion ever mattered. He was just the person who had to clear the way for His Royal Idiocy.

He had to exercise a great deal of self-restraint to keep from pushing people out of the way as he and Jess weaved through dense foot traffic. The

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