Rising Sea: A Pat Walsh Thriller by James Lawrence

Author:James Lawrence [Lawrence, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Genesis Publishing
Published: 2019-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Eleuthera, Bahamas

Huang jumped out of the Zodiac with the other men and helped pull the heavy rubber boat across the sandy beach and into the storage area under the house. As hurricane protection, the beach house was built on eight-foot stilts which allowed for a perfect space to hide two fifteen-foot rubber boats from aerial observation. Huang led the way into the house through the back deck while two of his men carried the prisoner. The remaining six men finished stowing the two boats and took up security positions around the house.

Huang was soon walking in circles around the island in the center of the kitchen, the pacing helped him contain his anxiety. He frequently checked the settings on his radio, but he was unwilling to use it for fear of giving away his position. As per the plan, the team had gone into silent mode once they began their exfiltration from the objective.

Huang wondered about the fate of the team that had gone after Pat Walsh. He lost contact with the other team very early into the operation. As soon as the tracker he had placed on Pat Walsh’s truck indicated movement to the Trident Headquarters, he launched with the boat team. During the infiltration to Walsh’s beach house, he was able to monitor the actions of the other team on the radio. The last update he received had them taking position outside of the Trident Headquarters building. After that, the assault on the beach house had consumed all of his attention. It wasn’t until the exfiltration began and he was forced into radio silence that he realized he hadn’t received an update from the other team since the assault began. Now he had no idea if their mission was successful.

Huang accompanied the boat team because that was the main effort. Capturing Pat Walsh was secondary. The priorities changed after facial recognition software identified the photo of a woman inside the house as a former Chinese Intelligence officer. Having triumphed over the Navy in the tsunami investigation, Huang’s boss, the Minister of State Security, now saw an opportunity to earn even more favor with the President at the expense of his rival at the People’s Liberation Army. The boat team was originally positioned offshore in a cargo vessel as a contingency force. When knowledge of the female Chinese defector became known, the contingency force was activated and ordered to land in Eleuthera and plan a mission to capture the woman on the fly.

The unconscious woman lying on the living room floor had defected from a highly classified People’s Liberation Army Intelligence Agency known as Unit 83461. Unit 83461, referred to in the West simply as Chinese Intelligence, is part of the People’s Liberation Army and is the equivalent of the US CIA. It competes with the Ministry of State Security in only a few narrow areas. The MSS is much bigger and has a much broader mission than Unit 83461. MSS has over one hundred thousand employees. MSS

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