Rescuing You: Secrets and Spies in Shadow Cove (The Wright Heroes of Maine Book 2) by Robin Patchen

Author:Robin Patchen [Patchen, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JDO Publishing
Published: 2024-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

Michael purchased an inflatable raft, a motor, a motor mount, a fuel container, and three life jackets. The items barely fit in the back of the rented hatchback.

Finally finished gathering all they’d need, Michael navigated to the hotel a little more than an hour after he’d left.

Because Michael had spoken to the station chief in Baghdad, Brock would know to look for him in Turkey. The longer Michael kept up radio silence with his team leader, the worse things would go for him once he was back in the States. If he reached out now, maybe Brock would listen to reason.

Deciding it was worth a try, he dialed.

“Brock here.”

The only member of their team without a call sign—because the man rarely left the safety of his office.

“It’s Wrong.”

“Where are you?” The words were terse and angry.

“Trying to get out of Turkey.”

“March yourself to the nearest consulate, and I’ll get you out.”

“I don’t think so.” Michael was careful to keep sarcasm out of his voice. “I rescued Leila and her sister, and I’ll be bringing them to the US as soon as possible.”

“Where they’ll promptly be taken into custody.”

“For what? Being kidnapped? Held against their will? That’s against the law now?”

“Do you know who her father is?” Michael didn’t, but Brock’s tone told him he did, giving him an advantage.

“I know who Leila is, and I know she is not her father, or her family.”

“You don’t know anything,” Brock snapped. “Her father is Saad Farad Fayad.”

The name floated only a moment before landing on the proper peg in Michael’s mind.

Fayad had worked for Saddam and then the new government.

Which tracked with what Leila had told him. He was the fence-sitter. But now that Michael had a name, he could picture the face. And remember what the Agency knew about him, along with what they’d suspected.

A man who looked like Fayad had been seen with top Al Qaida leaders—including bin Laden—in the years leading up to the attacks on September 11. After that, the same person had been seen with other terrorist leaders.

But that person couldn’t have been Fayad because those sightings had occurred when Fayad was in Baghdad.

The counterterrorist experts had assumed it was a brother or a close relative, but Saad Fayad was an only child, and though he had cousins, none looked enough like him to be mistaken for him.

Agents in Baghdad had tested Fayad’s loyalty, letting slip information to see if it was passed along.

Those secrets never got back to Al Qaida or, years later, to ISIL, the terrorist organization that had grown after the fall of Al Qaida in Iraq.

The powers-that-be in the Agency and in Baghdad had decided the man they’d seen through grainy satellite images had been Fayad’s doppelgänger.

Even so, the Iraqi man had never been trusted, which had stunted his career with the new government—and maybe led to his early retirement. Based on Leila’s description of her father, the Agency had been right to mistrust him.

Was Leila’s father a terrorist?

And then an inconsistency rose to the top.

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