Fear the Survivors by Stephen Moss

Author:Stephen Moss [Moss, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: SciFi
Published: 2014-08-28T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24: Vendetta

Lana reveled in the rioters’ fury. The police and National Guard were mobilized in most of the major metropolises of the country, most notably in New York, Chicago, LA, and DC, where protests had turned violent. Many less politically motivated participants had started taking the opportunity to engage in some old-fashioned capitalism, looting the contents from any home or store they could violate.

But this unrest was spreading, onto streets, into homes, into suburbs, and the overflow of angst and fury was spilling into the markets and drowning them. With even Park Avenue’s residents affected, a wholly different resistance movement had been mobilized, with the wealthy and formerly wealthy starting to vocally support a forceful crackdown on the protests.

But that was not all Lana had to smile about, for amidst the violence and political rhetoric, Lana’s tap into Saul Moskowitz’s life had suddenly struck gold, proving more profitable than she had dared hope, and now she faced the very real possibility of bringing one of her intended targets to his knees.

Upon reflection, the attack on the White House had been ill conceived, she knew that. But she had nearly succeeded in spite of her overzealousness. If only she had spent longer assessing her target, or pursued some of the other movement she had tracked in the building, rather than focusing solely on the president’s party. But she could not have known that Neal would not stick with the president, and any additional time spent in the capital surveying the area would have brought with it ever-greater risk of discovery.

No, she had seen an opportunity, and she had taken it. And despite her failure to achieve her target, she had still survived the encounter and managed to strike at the very heart of the nation she had been sent to emasculate. She was not sure which of her fellow Agents were still alive, or what they were doing if they were, but surely they weren’t proving as successful as she was. Certainly there had been no news from Europe or Asia to indicate anything as spectacular as her reign of terror in the United States, except maybe that gruesome night in Gaza City several months ago.

In fact, Lana thought, there were many powerful nations still relatively untouched by the efforts of Lana and her cohorts. The most notable example of this was the wealthy countries of Western Europe, which, aside from the economic backlash from the various military and societal tremors resonating around the earth, had escaped the current crises relatively unscathed. As she contemplated this, Lana felt a deep-seated desire to redress that imbalance. Maybe once she had dispensed with Neal, and hopefully Madeline (if she could find her), she would head to Europe.

She sat in a new Ford sedan, moving slowly in the evening rush-hour traffic. Her face was heavily painted with makeup, and covered by a baseball cap and sunglasses. Thick black hair hung down about her neck. Not a wig. Real hair. The hair belonged to

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