Mission Critical by Jamie Fredric

Author:Jamie Fredric
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Action & Adventure, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, Military, Thrillers, Men's Adventure, Genre Fiction, War, Literature & Fiction
Published: 2010-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

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Aboard the Rachinski

0930

Sergei Vernichenko stared across the bow of the trawler, his deep-set, nearly black eyes squinting, trying to see through the dense mist. He spoke under his breath and only to himself. "What are you up to my American friends? What has brought you into these waters so suddenly? Surely, not us," he laughed without any true emotion.

"Comrade Vernichenko," called Communication's Officer Mikhail Borniski, as he pointed to the microphone. "It is Comrade Pratopapov."

Sergei walked over to the communication's table and tapped Borniski on the shoulder, motioning for him to leave. When he was alone, he sat in front of the microphone, hunching his broad shoulders over the table. "Has anything changed since our last conversation?"

"No. We're still proceeding to Sado. But..."

"But? You seem agitated, Comrade."

"There are many questions being asked."

One of the most respected but feared KGB officers in Moscow, Vernichenko was the best at what he did, especially when it came to mind games. Alexei had been an easy target, but now Sergei was very intrigued, the word 'worried' not yet crossing his thoughts. "You are being asked these questions?"

"No."

"Tell me about...these questions, and who is asking them."

Alexei spoke hurriedly. "The rumors have to do with a 'Stevens', Chief Grant Stevens. He's been asking about the crewman's death and..."

Alexei's words faded into the background as the KGB officer sent his own mind back in time, trying to remember. There was an American--surely, it cannot be, he thought. "You don't recognize that name, Comrade?"

"Stevens?" As if a bolt of lightning struck him, he gasped, "My God! How couldn't I remember?" He had been aboard the destroyer Hadley, stationed off the coast of Cuba, waiting for a sub to relinquish her passengers...five Navy SEALs, who were returning from a mission that destroyed the laboratory and nearly killed Vernichenko. Although Alexei had not been in contact with any of the SEALs, the scuttlebutt about what they did was the topic of conversation. An hour after the SEALs were picked up by the destroyer, they were helo-lifted from its deck.

But it was the KGB officer whose mind was flooded with thoughts and pictures of a time when the world hung on the brink of World War III--a nuclear war.

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