The Nuremberg Puzzle by Laurence O'Bryan

Author:Laurence O'Bryan [O'Bryan, Laurence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, International Mystery & Crime, Thriller
Amazon: B01D2RBMUE
Publisher: Ardua
Published: 2016-04-14T05:00:00+00:00

26

Henry Mowlam, duty officer for MI5’s central London monitoring desk, was on weekend duty. It was a full working day for him that Sunday. There had been a number of incidents. An ISIS-affiliated terror suspect, who had been questioned the previous day, had given details of a plot to attack a night club in central London. He had only cooperated after his decrypted online messages had been shown to him. Arrests were taking place as a result.

But something else had caught Henry’s attention in the last few minutes. A demonstration had begun in front of the German embassy in Belgrave Square in the city centre.

He logged on to the live link with the MI5 video link screen. He could see and hear what was going on, as if he was standing over the crowd. Many demonstrators carried placards in Arabic and English saying WHO IS KILLING US? There were other messages too. A woman in a hijab, which covered her hair, was carrying a black flag. She was shouting something in Arabic. He clicked a key to take a picture of her, then fed it into the database. She came up as a Syrian refugee seeking long-term residency in the United Kingdom, because a sibling had already been granted it. She was also associated with a mosque on his watch list.

“Foolish,” he murmured. He gathered still images of several other demonstrators and got similar results.

He ran a wider network search. All the people he’d selected were also family members of people who had died in the German virus outbreak.

He lifted the phone. “Take a look at the Belgrave Square news feed. Translate audio please.”

“Okay.”

The translator did her job quickly. Text came up at the bottom of the video. What sounded like shouted slogans in English and Arabic were mostly the same message: “Get our families out of Germany. God is great.”

The question all this raised was: why were so many people of a similar origin dying in Germany? And if, as MI6 had suggested, there was an infection loose among the refugee community there, what would be the impact on the United Kingdom, with its large refugee population, particularly in London?

Henry leaned towards the screen. He read a briefing note from an MI6 officer in Munich. It had popped into a corner.

The situation in Bavaria is of serious concern at this time. A move by the Bundespolizei to place the city of Nürenberg under quarantine will be passed to the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) for an emergency session, late today, Sunday. Of immediate UK concern, is the escalating number of casualties (43 at this time), the number of victims hospitalised, and the likelihood that infected individuals may have already boarded flights to the United Kingdom. ID/passport numbers of all those infected are provided in the attached list.

Henry scanned the list, then emailed it to the Border Agency duty officer. He would have to make the decision to escalate and request that the United Kingdom Health Defence Committee be convened.

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