Capital Offensive (Stony Man) by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton [Pendleton, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Firebase Omega

His eyes closed to mere slits, Hasuraya “Mongoose” Metudas closely studied the bank of sixteen video monitors forming a curved wall on the wide console. Each screen had text crawling across the bottom, detailing troops’ movements and replaying the top news reports from around the world.

A skinny, rat-faced man, Mongoose was wearing a heavy sweater and a knit cap against the cold. The computer room he nicknamed the North Pole, for obvious reasons, was sealed airtight to help the laboring air conditioners keep the temperature just below freezing. Located at the back of the room, the massive Cray SVG supercomputer worked faster in the cold. However, regularly buying liquid nitrogen was a telltale giveaway to anybody searching for an enemy hacker. And somewhere along the east coast of the Untied States was a group of fellow computer experts, probably CIA or NSA, the government electron-riders almost as good as he was. They had helped direct the destruction of the former employer, Mohad Malavade in Calcutta. But the clever bastards weren’t going to stop Forge. There was too much at stake.

And as soon as I learn their location, Mongoose added grimly. I’ll drop enough burning jetliners on them to flatten Mt. Everest!

On the run from Interpol and Indian Intelligence, Mongoose had started off working for Calvano just for the paycheck, but over time the general had convinced the hacker this was the only way to save humanity. Now he worked free of charge, bringing about the end of the old world, to help create a new world order of sanity and peace.

But like any radical surgery removing cancer, Mongoose sagely mused, using fingertips to up the rheostat of the electric jumpsuit situated under his bulky turtleneck sweater, there’s going to be some blood and pain. That couldn’t be helped. Aside from getting the nuclear war over as soon as possible.

Softly murmuring headphones dangling around his neck, Mongoose listened with an unfocused mind, absorbing the torrent of data and deciding where to have the GPS network malfunction next.

Hacking into the GPS network had been relatively simple in comparison to overriding the security codes of sixteen nations to use their own spy satellites against them. And Mongoose needed the spy satellites to orchestrate the cresting waves of destruction. Even a nuclear warhead was useless without some way to aim the thing.

And the fools constantly tell me where to strike all by themselves. The little man called “Snake Eater” by the soldiers of Forge smirked in pleasure. Keep broadcasting live news reports, and soon I will level the world!

Typing away on a silent keyboard, Mongoose transferred the last payment to a group of mercenaries in Nebraska, crashed a Cessna jet and sent French artillery shells into Germany, blowing up a fuel depot and setting a factory complex on fire.

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