Odessa Rising: A Bioterrorism Thriller (Gunner Fox Book 5) by Bobby Akart

Author:Bobby Akart [Akart, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.
Published: 2020-10-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

United States Embassy

Baku, Azerbaijan

Execution. A single word with varied meanings. In the time of his grandfather’s day, execution meant to take another’s life under some authority, real or perceived. In Daniel Wagner’s day, execution was required to see an operation to completion, and a goal to realization. Thus far, every aspect of this mission was going as planned. Even the weather had cooperated.

Because of its proximity to the west coast of the Caspian Sea, the normally dry, pleasant weather could change drastically if moisture was brought in from the waters. In recent years, wild swings in weather patterns in the region had been experienced as the planet had been experiencing a sudden shift in its magnetic poles. Geologists had been reporting that the magnetic north pole had wandered as far south as Central Russia toward Kazakhstan, six hundred miles north of Azerbaijan but a thousand miles south of true north.

On this day, Wagner caught a break, the first of many. The weather was gloriously warm at eighty degrees. The embassy personnel would be clamoring for their precious air-conditioning to be restored, ignoring normal security protocols in favor of securing cool air and comfort. The sunny weather would ensure the streets were filled with pedestrian traffic, all the better for his operatives to escape into obscurity after ditching their red and white coveralls emblazoned with the Euroclima Kombi Servis logos.

The three vans containing six operatives, including himself, pulled up to the entrance to the U.S. Embassy. Ostensibly, they’d been dispatched from the Euroclima operations center located on the other side of Baku. In reality, they’d exited the parking garage of a high-rise apartment building only a block away. The markings of the vans were not exactly like the Euroclima fleet, so Wagner didn’t want his operatives running the risk of being noticed by authentic service personnel of the company.

One of his top hires, an Azerbaijani native, Amir Azizov, who’d been working for Hamas within Iran, was the point man as the team cleared security. Unfortunately for him, he would also be one of the most important elements of subterfuge following the attack. After the operation concluded, Wagner planned to deliver a lethal injection of sarin into the man’s body and leave him for dead on the side of the road. When his body was discovered, all fingers of blame would point to Hamas and Iran. He’d decided to nix the initial plan of creating a celebratory video by Hamas loyalists. It would require more people to be involved in the mission. That meant more mouths outside Odessa to silence later.

The three vans pulled through the iron gates leading into the service entrances to the embassy. Hours earlier, Azizov had entered the embassy sporting a full beard, glasses, and a turban in order to secure a travel permit to the United States.

He’d intentionally feigned getting lost in the hallways while trying to find the nonimmigrant travel visa office. In just a few minutes, he’d located the storage room that contained the two air handlers for the building.

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