Black Ops: Olympics by Matt Lynn

Author:Matt Lynn [Lynn, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Endeavour Press Ltd.
Published: 2012-05-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

At least they’ve been lucky with the weather decided Alex as he looked up at the clear blue skies over London. Just a shame they’ve given an Irish Republican terror group access-all-areas passes to the Opening Ceremony.

He’d decided to get the tube up to the Stadium. The brief for the Unit Five men was to mingle with the rest of the crowd. A final pair of eyes and ears, and a last line of defence. Most people lucky enough to have tickets would be getting there by public transport, and it was a fair bet that any terror groups planning an attack would be doing so as well. You didn’t turn up with a bomb or a nerve gas in a chauffer-driven limo: you made yourself as low-key as possible. And that meant the security guys should as well. Your best chance of foiling an attack might well be on the tube. But as Alex sat amongst the excited crowd lucky enough to have tickets for what would certainly be the most spectacular show staged in Britain for a generation he couldn’t see anything that aroused any suspicion. Plenty of families, some young couples, a few tourists. Nobody who looked in the least bit nervous.

That didn’t mean an attack wasn’t coming, however.

After what had happened last night Alex felt certain something was afoot.

Greenway and Harford had gathered the men together in a security room inside the Stadium at four. All nine of them reported for duty promptly. After Jack had been stood down from the Unit, no attempt had been made to replace him. It was too late for that.

“The alert level has been raised to red,” said Greenway, glancing around at the men gathered round her. “So I know all you men were on the highest possible state of preparedness already. But I want you to take it up a notch higher.”

“We’ve been monitoring the internet traffic,” said Harford. “Some of the chat rooms known to be used by terror groups to communicate with one another have been full of speculation about the Opening Ceremony this evening. We haven’t been able to identify which group it might be, nor what form the attack might take. And of course before any major event you always get false alarms. But we’re taking this seriously…So seriously that I know the head of MI5 spoke to the Prime Minister this afternoon and the two men seriously discussed postponing the Opening Ceremony until the threat level had been better understood. We, along with the rest of the security services, decided that the situation whilst difficult was manageable. But I’m telling you that so you understand just how grave this situation might be.”

She paused, looking at each man in turn.

“The crowd are already finding their seats. So get out there, and if you see anything, anything at all, that raises your suspicions, then act immediately.”

The men nodded.

One by one, they filed out of the briefing room. The stadium was vast, and the crowd a huge one, and there was little chance that the men could cover it all.

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