Mother City by Starner Jones

Author:Starner Jones [Jones, Starner]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Ahead Press
Published: 2017-10-01T17:00:00+00:00

Interlude in Tel Aviv

Décor was lacking in the briefing room. A window spanned the height of a wall and afforded a grand view of the ancient land. Father Abraham would be proud. Tel Aviv stood as a thriving metropolis built over remnants of an abandoned port long forgotten by modern man. The old, native, and liberated race flourished once again, though it bore no resemblance to its forebears who fought and died in their beloved Gush Dan. Twin flat-screen televisions hung on the south wall. Atop a credenza were a bouquet of yellow roses, a water jug with paper cones, and a digital projector with its matching screen. A map of the world replete with topography and color schemes indicating Israeli presence in hostile domains adorned another wall. This was no place for show and tell, but rather a place for discussion and planning, a venue where intelligent men and women mulled over their homeland’s worst fears in private.

Committee participants had been chosen by the prime minister, who had not yet arrived for the briefing. Senior advisors sat at a conference table made of gopher wood. Each official was composed, subdued. Restraint is a trusted friend in the face of uncertainty.

Foster arrived in the briefing room before anyone else. Stolid and focused, he replayed the facts again in his head. It was a tale meant for primetime: a wealthy couple reported their only son missing in Bo-Kaap, a sleepy Muslim hamlet in Cape Town. The boy’s father was Jewish, a multibillionaire descendent of Lord Rothschild, no less. His mother was a secular European and erstwhile Roman Catholic. There were no leads, according to local police, but Foster knew better. The boy, Nathan, hadn’t simply disappeared. Someone had taken him.

But why?

No ransom had been solicited.

Who was behind it all? Had Islamic radicals hatched a plot more ambitious than ever before? Could a Muslim kidnapping ring have turned even bolder and graduated to the global stage?

Reuben waited for the phone to ring. More than a few times he imagined hearing those encouraging words, “Good news, sir. We’ve found the boy safe at last.” But such notice never came.

It was Monday, and the mass of papers on the director’s desk indicated the rigor of a job that seemingly had no end. Reuben reached for a memo.

December 21, 1991

United States Embassy

Nairobi, Kenya

US State Department liaison 86-012 visited Joint UNHCR/ UNICEF refugee encampment for Sudanese children in Lodwar, Kenya on December 1, 1991. Identity of 346 children registered at the camp is attached hereto. Our liaison interviewed a number of children regarding the status of refugee camps in Sudan. Reports indicate approximately 500 child refugees remained in a camp on the south side of Juba, Sudan, near the Cathedral of St. Theresa. Reports of the number of children in other refugee camps around Juba were not clear.

Nine boys reported they were kidnapped and held in a compound near a mosque in northwest Juba for two months. The kidnapping took place just after Ramadan. The children reported no abuse.

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