Easy Day for the Dead by Stephen Templin

Author:Stephen Templin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books

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Alex woke Thursday to see the morning sun enter his room around the curtains’ edges. He checked his secure email. There was a message from JSOC. Mission approved. Phase One: rescue the scientist’s husband, Hassan Khamenei. Phase Two: locate Iranian biological weapons lab and destroy. Phase Three: capture or kill General Behrouz Tehrani. Attached are the photos of the general. Note: After Phase Two is completed, don’t worry about any scientists who might escape. We can deal with them later. Focus on the general. Alex opened the attachment and looked at the general’s photos.

Alex hurriedly made one last visit to the intel shed before gathering the Outcasts and Leila. The five of them met in one of JSOC’s secure meeting rooms, where Alex gave the mission brief. John and Leila entered the room talking and smiling. Cat and Leila avoided eye contact with each other, and Alex avoided prolonged eye contact with either of them. Pancho showed up last, hungover.

“Before I begin the mission brief, intel gave us photos of the three enemies we ran into in the Tehran hospital: Major Gholam Khan, Captain Nasser Fat’hi, and Lieutenant Saeed Saeedi,” Alex said. “Any one of them is bad news.”

Alex gave the Outcasts the mission outline JSOC gave him, including copies of the general’s photos. Then he continued with the rest of his brief.

“. . . SIGINT reports that Hezbollah terrorists and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are holding Dr. Khamenei’s husband, Hassan Khamenei, hostage in the Sheikh Abdallah Barracks in Baalbek, which is located in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, just across the border from Syria. The Activity has reported that cardboard has been used to cover up the windows of a building north of the compound. Hezbollah has used this building to hold hostages before. JSOC believes the hostage is being held there now.”

Alex showed them a digital three-dimensional building plan. “This is what JSOC’s architects and engineers generated. No one has seen the inside of that building, but JSOC used sophisticated software to generate this model.” JSOC had a computerized database of thousands of properties.

“Considering the situation in Lebanon, and considering that JSOC can’t or won’t give us additional team members, we’re going to need some help from the locals for this rescue. Of course, we won’t get help from the Shiites or Hezbollah supporters there, but Tripoli is nearby, and it’s the home of Lebanese Sunnis. JSOC has provided us with information for a Sunni contact there.

“Cat, Leila, and I will fly into Beirut on a civilian flight as the advance team of our film crew. Then we’ll check into an apartment in Tripoli and meet up with our Sunni contact. Pancho and John will travel separately, disguised as hospital corpsmen attached to a Marine unit that will launch from the USS Kearsarge, anchored off the shore of Lebanon. Pancho and John will come ashore with their unit to train with the Lebanese Army. Once on land with all our goodies, Pancho and John will change into civvies, separate from the Marines, and link up with us at the apartment in Tripoli.

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