The Stone of Archimedes: A Jake Adams International Espionage Thriller by Trevor Scott

Author:Trevor Scott [Scott, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Calabria Publishing
Published: 2024-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Toni Contardo paced back and forth in the office of her boss, Kurt Jenkins, the Director of Central Intelligence. She had risen up the ranks with Kurt, only he had always been at least one rung above her at all times. Now, she held the position of deputy director for special projects, a position which she had designed herself. She was a fixer. And her relationship with Jake Adams, such as it was now, continued to bring her great angst. The man seemed to have a penchant for finding trouble. Only he could take on a simple missing person case and end up getting shot at by the henchmen of an international billionaire under investigation for all kinds of bad deeds—too many to innumerate to Jake in a simple data feed by e-mail. Yet, she had sent him what he asked for just moments ago without question. But now she was having second thoughts, especially since her boss had somehow found out about her lapse in protocol.

Seconds later and Kurt Jenkins rushed into his office, a concerned look on his face, and he slumped into his leather chair behind his huge mahogany desk. He simply waved for her to sit in the chair across from his desk.

She waited for him to lay out his concerns, since she wasn’t really sure why he had summoned her.

“Your communication with Jake was flagged by our internal security,” Kurt said.

It wasn’t like she had hid her contact with Jake. “I would hope so,” she said. “He needed info on a Greek billionaire named Petros Caras. Was it a problem that I gave him the quick version?”

The director leaned back in his chair and tapped on the wooden arms nervously. “No. Not really. But there could be a problem with the Greek.”

“What kind of problem?” she asked.

“Our Agency has had a. . .relationship in the past with this man.”

“So. We also had a relationship with Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden, and dozens of other terrorists and despots throughout history. Why is this Petros Caras any different?”

Kurt Jenkins closed his eyes and then let out a long breath of air.

“What the hell is going on?” she demanded.

He hesitated longer, in deep thought. “We made this man.”

“Made him?”

“Essentially. In the seventies Petros Caras was a minor businessman in Athens, working for us to obtain information on certain other interests in the country. This was way before either of us joined the Agency. Anyway, the more he helped us in that region, from Athens to Damascus, we made sure he got certain contracts for his business.”

She was dumbfounded. “So we basically turned a snitch into a billionaire.”

“Well, he was more than a snitch,” Kurt assured her. “He was an agent run by our people out of our Athens office. He quickly gained more prominence once he made contacts in Ankara, Damascus and Beirut.”

“So we let him supply guns to terrorists.”

“It’s not that simple,” Kurt said. “Yes, he did sell weapons, but he was also instrumental with inserting allies into these terrorist organizations, including those from The Mossad.

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