The Sienna Sand by Jeff Siebold

Author:Jeff Siebold [Siebold, Jeff]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733638722
Publisher: Siebold Group Consulting, LLC
Published: 2019-12-02T22:00:00+00:00

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“Nice digs, Zeke,” said Kimmy, as she slid into the overstuffed corner chair. “This seems like a cool town.”

“Have you been to Savannah before?” asked Zeke, easing onto the small couch.

Kimmy shook her head. “Most of my travel has been international, except for my work with The Agency. But this town has been around for a while.”

Zeke smiled and nodded. “It has, for a U.S. city. But nothing compared with, say, Jerusalem.”

Kimmy nodded. “What’s the latest with Julia?”

“She has a plan now. Definitely. It sounds like she suddenly got direction and is about to take off with it. Like when you take a new job. That’s the feeling.”

“Then why escape on a yacht?” asked Kimmy. “That doesn’t sound like a very productive place to be.”

Zeke nodded again. “Depends on why you’re on the yacht. And what the objective is.”

“So she could be going aboard to rob the yacht.”

“Or the patrons, yes,” said Zeke.

“Like a jewelry heist. She’s pretending to be on the crew and then she robs them?”

“Or, bigger, she plans to hijack the yacht. Sell it internationally.”

“Is that really a thing?” asked Kimmy.

“Piracy? Sure,” said Zeke.

“Or?”

“Another option is that she did, in fact, get a new job,” he said.

“On the yacht?”

“Yes, but not as crew. More likely in security,” Zeke said.

“That does seems more likely,” said Kimmy. “If it were me, I’d do that.”

“Do we want to stop her before she gets to international waters?” Kimmy asked.

“Well, that’s where the Feds authority stops,” he said.

“But we have a little bit more, uh, ‘flexibility’ in our geography,” she said.

“International borders don’t mean much to you, do they,” said Zeke.

“They’re really just political lines in the sand,” said Kimmy. “Put there long ago for reasons that are mostly forgotten.” Then she said, “Julia Conners is dangerous.”

“How so?” Zeke raised his eyebrows questioningly.

“I checked on her with my Mossad connections. She’s been involved with the Provisional IRA for a long time. Lost her husband in the fight. They built car bombs and with a few other IRA-loyalists they blew up much of Belfast.”

“The Irish claim that wing of the IRA shut down around 2005,” said Zeke.

Kimmy shook her head. “No, the Brits conducted a study about it in 2015 after one of the IRA’s leaders was murdered. They said the Provisional IRA was smaller and less organized, but still a force. And they still classify it as a terrorist organization.”

“Perhaps they’re less political and more self-serving now.”

“Probably. They’re little more than a gang of criminals. There’s no chance of the Brits withdrawing from Ireland. And that was their main purpose, their rallying point,” said Kimmy.

“Were you involved in any of the troubles back then?” asked Zeke.

“I can’t say,” said Kimmy with a Mona Lisa smile. “But what we appear to have here is a woman with deadly experience and a score to settle, namely, her dead husband. I’d think she has some very specific goals in her long game.”

“I agree with you. It may be best to hang back and watch for now.

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