Black Ops Bundle: Volume One by Allan Leverone & Ian Graham & Steven Konkoly

Author:Allan Leverone & Ian Graham & Steven Konkoly
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Conspiracies, Political, Thriller & Suspense, Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue, Thrillers, Military, Terrorism, Assassinations, Espionage, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Stribling Media
Published: 2013-11-13T07:00:00+00:00

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May 30, 1987

10:30 p.m. EST

Somewhere over the North Atlantic

The B-52 floated across the sky nearly five miles above the vast, empty expanse of the Atlantic Ocean. The air was smooth, with only the occasional light bump of turbulence—like a city bus driving over a pothole—and the roar of the eight jet engines had been muted in level flight to a steady thrumming that was felt more than heard inside the cabin.

At the controls, Tom Mitchell felt as though his stomach might launch its contents all over the instruments at any moment. The gentle rocking of a large aircraft in flight had never affected him in this way before. But then he had never been about to murder four people—including himself—before, either.

He could barely think straight. He was a traitor, although no one would ever discover that devastating fact. Crashing the BUFF into the Atlantic after killing everyone aboard would eliminate any evidence of foul play, satisfying the Russians and sparing his family. There was no radar coverage hundreds of miles off the United States’ coast, so by the time air traffic controllers realized the B-52 was missing, most of the aircraft and debris would already be beneath the water’s surface, well on their way to the ocean floor.

Add to that the fact that the area to be searched would be massive, thousands of square miles of uninterrupted watery desolation, and Tom Mitchell knew the odds of his treachery being discovered were astronomically long.

So that was the plan. Crash the airplane into the ocean.

The problem was that Tom was having a hard time executing the plan, not to mention everyone aboard the aircraft. It wasn’t that he was afraid of dying—not exactly. Anyone making a career out of military service eventually found a way to reconcile the possibility of sudden violent death. Not to do so was to risk a mental breakdown. Tom had long ago made peace with that concept.

Murdering three innocent people, though, had never been part of those calculations. There was a world of difference between being blown out of the sky by an enemy missile during a bombing run and placing his service weapon inside his mouth and pulling the trigger after first shooting everyone else aboard an airplane. So he delayed the inevitable, stomach jumping and rolling while he desperately searched for another way out.

Working with the KGB had been simple at first. A Godsend. He had raked in some serious cash—two grand a month was a lot of money for a United States Air Force officer—in return for passing along what often seemed like relatively harmless minutia: aircraft specs or division personnel rosters or armament information.

Tom wasn’t stupid—he had known he was crossing a line from which he could never return when he relayed that first bit of intel to the Russians, but keeping a German mistress was damned expensive. Besides, serving in the USAF was boring as hell. Acting as a go-between—he refused to consider himself a spy, although late at night, unable to

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