The Third Target by Joel C. Rosenberg

Author:Joel C. Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Christian, Fiction, FICTION / Christian / Suspense, Suspense, Thrillers, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense
ISBN: 9781496403674
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2015-01-06T06:00:00+00:00

34

The next twenty-four hours were a whirlwind.

Yael and Ari were true to their word. They gave me everything I needed and then some.

As I was preparing to leave, Ari explained why he hadn’t personally come to meet me in Turkey. He told me —completely off the record, of course —that the prime minister had sent him on a secret mission to Jordan.

“Lavi is determined to be remembered by history as the leader who nailed down a final peace accord with the Palestinians,” he whispered. “I told him the timing was wrong. I’m not opposed to a two-state solution. Not at all. But to make a deal right when ISIS is about to hit us with chemical weapons? It’s foolish. But he doesn’t agree, and he’s the boss. So I went. I’m sorry I wasn’t with you.”

I thanked him for his candor and all his help and Yael’s. I apologized for putting Yael in harm’s way, but he wouldn’t hear of it.

“That’s what I pay her for,” the Mossad chief said.

“It can’t possibly be enough,” I said.

Yael sighed. “You’ve got that right.”

Ari and I shook hands. Then Yael drove me to a private airfield. On the way, she gave me her real mobile number and asked me to call her when I arrived in Amman. Then she put me on a Learjet and instructed the pilot to fly me to Cairo. She said I could write my story there in peace and quiet and have it datelined from an Arab capital, not from Israel.

It was a good idea, and I was grateful. I would be safe there. No one would suspect me of being in Egypt. I didn’t want to leave Tel Aviv. I wanted to spend more time with Yael. But the clock was ticking. She wished me well, shook my hand, and said good-bye, and with that, she was gone.

Once on the ground in Cairo, I took a cab downtown. I used the phone Khachigian had given me to scan through the headlines back in the States. The nation was riveted on the events at Union Station. The president had called it a tragedy. The mayor of D.C. called it another senseless slaughter. The head of the FBI called it a cold-blooded homicide without rhyme or reason. But that was all spin. The FBI knew there was a reason for the attack. They knew it was terrorism, and they had to suspect it was either al Qaeda or ISIS. But they were still treating the case like another Columbine massacre or the shootings at Sandy Hook, not like a national security emergency.

What’s more, the bureau was keeping what cards it had closer than usual. They still weren’t releasing the names of any of those who had been killed. Nor were they releasing the name of the female shooter who had been pronounced dead at the scene. At least they were no longer sticking to the “right-wing white supremacist” nonsense.

The Feds had now confirmed there had been a second shooter.

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