The Brexit Affair by Mark McKay

Author:Mark McKay [McKay, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mark McKay
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

After exiting the Underground the previous evening, Nick had walked for twenty minutes to get to Charing Cross station, only to find that all rail services out of the capital were cancelled. The CDS kept an apartment in Kensington and he decided to spend the night there. There was so much traffic congestion along the embankment that the only way to get across town was to either use a bicycle or walk. The idea of using a bike was attractive and there were numerous docking stations around London with bikes for hire, but the nearest one to the station had been cleaned out by the time he found it. So he walked. An hour and a half later, he arrived. The apartment wasn’t used on a regular basis, so there was nothing to eat or drink in the place. He filled a glass with tap water and went straight to the living room and turned on the television.

The live news coverage was centred around the two Underground stations hit by the bombers. Their entrances had been taped off and there were plenty of flashing lights on ambulances and police vehicles to be seen, but not much else. The reporter outside Oxford Circus was telling the viewers that at the moment, there were no estimates for the number of people injured or dead. The police had set up a hotline for anyone concerned about their loved ones, and the number for that was scrolling along the bottom of the screen. Then they cut back to the studio, where the presenter announced that an organisation calling itself the New Millennium Mujahideen were claiming responsibility, the same group that had taken credit for the Stock Exchange bomb. As nothing much was known about them, they were being tentatively labelled as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda until further information came to light.

Power had been fully restored by now, all done manually from the affected substation. By morning, Central London would be up and running again and the terror threat level would be raised to ‘critical’. There would be an increase in the number of armed police and army personnel on the streets. There was a clip of the prime minister making a statement condemning the actions of ‘these cowardly, callous murderers’. Then, they cut to other news.

Nick turned the TV off. He called Mariko, to let her know he’d arrived safely.

‘Are you watching the news?’ he asked her.

‘Yes. They aren’t saying that the power cut was a cyber-attack. But it’s too much of a co-incidence not to be.’

‘What we weren’t expecting were the terror attacks. Now they know that the computer program works, they’ll be confident enough to do it again. And they might arrange another bombing, too.’

‘I agree. But you know, Nick, it takes a long time to plan a bombing. So many things can go wrong and it’s easy to draw attention to yourself. This must have been planned months in advance. But the USB stick only came to the attention of MI6 in January.

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