Full Blast by Jack Patterson

Author:Jack Patterson [Patterson, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
Publisher: Green E-Books
Published: 2016-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Tangier, Morocco

BLUNT SCOURED NEWS WEBSITES to see if something monumental had happened somewhere in the world, namely Prague. But there hadn’t been anything to appear online yet. If he were to believe the news sites, it was as if the entire world was living in peace and harmony.

What a joke.

Blunt checked his phone again. No messages. He wanted to speak with Hawk about the condition of the mission in Prague and hopefully urge him back to the states where there was apparently a real and credible threat, even if no one knew what it was yet. Still nothing from his top and only active operative.

Christopher Roland had been a big help to Blunt, even if he didn’t fully trust his friend who’d been a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. But Blunt needed someone else, someone active within the CIA to find out where the United States’s espionage division was actively engaged abroad.

Blunt picked up his phone and called Mark Westin, a former U.S. Army General who had strong connections at Langley.

Maybe he knows something.

“Hello,” Westin said as he answered his phone.

“General Westin, this is Senator Blunt.”

Westin broke into a soft chuck. “J.D. Blunt, why I swear I thought you’d been wiped off the face of the earth. What’s it been? Ten years? Fifteen?”

“Something like that.”

“Well, whatever the exact time, it’s been too damn long. What can I help you with?”

“I’ve run into some trouble and need your help.”

“I don’t know how much help I can be to you these days. I hardly talk to the boys over at the Pentagon, and most days I’m out fishing.”

“Must be nice.”

Westin laughed. “More than you know. But I’ll be glad to make a few phone calls on your behalf in between baiting my hooks. What’s going on?”

Blunt sighed. “I need your help in a serious way.”

“Are you in trouble?”

“I’m not sure, but it sure does feel that way,” Blunt said. “But for the record, I haven’t done anything wrong.”

“But what does everyone think you did?”

Blunt laughed nervously. “They think I’m cajoling the facts to my own benefit.”

“And?”

“Of course I didn’t do that. I was simply trying to help a friend,” he said.

“That gives me some relief. But it never seems to be enough around this town, which seems to swing between phases of reviled enemy and mighty prosperous champion.” The former general sighed. “So, what do you want me to help you do?”

“I need someone to help me figure out if I’m being played or not?”

“Played? By whom?”

Blunt chuckled. “It’s easier for me to tell you who might not be trying to have their way with me than to list all the potential suspects. It seems like I’m always inundated with people who are after me.”

“Tell me what you know.”

“I know there’s a potential terrorist strike on U.S. soil and nobody there knows a damn thing. I’m trying to decide if it’s worth me removing my top asset in the field and sending him home to stop this bombing from happening.

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