The Aegis Conspiracy by Galen Winter

Author:Galen Winter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC037000, FIC006000, FIC031000
ISBN: 9781926918976
Publisher: CCB Publishing
Published: 2011-10-06T16:00:00+00:00

In Mexico City, immigration officials didn’t raise an eyebrow when Abdul, using a Jordanian Passport, entered the country. A day later, in accordance with Jake’s instructions, he was in Monterrey. As directed, he went to the Hotel Nuevo Mundo where a room on the third floor had been reserved for him. The rooms on the first floor of that long ago constructed building catered to prostitutes. The second floor was reserved for transient guests and the top floor - the third - was high enough above the street to get away from some of the noise and smells. Its few occupants were longer-term residents, people with limited resources and no place else to go.

Abdul followed Jake’s instructions. He went to the Fed Ex office and retrieved the package that awaited him. He wondered if the package was a disguised bomb. Abdul had not dismissed the possibility of a CIA plot to kill him or perform some other act of perfidy. In the municipal park across the street from the Nuevo Mundo, he gave a boy ten Pesos and told him to open the package. Watching from a safe distance, Abdul was relieved when there was no explosion. The package contained the book entitled: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. It was bound in plastic that looked quite a bit like quality leather. Abdul’s interest in Shakespearian plays and sonnets was limited to the point of being non-existent, but he was pleased to receive the volume. Back in his room in the Nuevo Mundo, Abdul removed the one hundred dollar bills interspersed between the book’s pages. He counted them twice. As promised, there were one hundred of them.

When the Fed-X office confirmed the delivery of the package containing the book, Jake was relieved. At least, Abdul was in Mexico and hadn’t disappeared with the money given him in Damascus. Now it remained to be seen if he would run after taking the second ten thousand dollar payment.

Jake reported Abdul’s arrival in Monterrey and Teddy dampened his suspicions. He only dampened them. They remained in the back of his mind. Teddy had been comfortable with Den. He was smart and tough and capable and, equally important, he was dependable. The only knowledge Teddy had about Abdul was the sketchy information Jake provided and Teddy wasn’t sure Jake’s information was reliable. Working with an Arab terrorist didn’t inspire much confidence.

Teddy wished he could rely on the accuracy of Jake’s reports as much as he had been able to rely upon the ones he received from Den. The best way to test Abdul’s reliability was to give him a job and see how he performed. Teddy wasted no time.

He told Jake to go to Monterrey, give Abdul an assignment and stay with him until he had finished it. Then he wanted a complete report of the terrorist’s competence. As far as a target was concerned, Teddy told Jake to pick someone - a drug smuggler, a corrupt Mexican policeman, anyone. The target was not important.

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