Seeds of War by Jack Patterson

Author:Jack Patterson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Conspiracy, espionage, thriller, mystery
Publisher: Green E-Books
Published: 2016-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

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YOLKOV’S ALARM ON HIS WATCH beeped and he awoke quickly. At 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, he had thirty minutes to assemble the team and get going if he hoped to arrive at the drop point at 7:00 a.m. He dished out food for the dogs and quickly repacked. Once he finished packing, he looked outside to check the weather. It was near-perfect conditions, standing in stark contrast to the seemingly endless parade of storms that pounded Svalbard for the previous few days.

Scanning the area before embarking on the short thirty-kilometer journey ahead, Yolkov seemed satisfied that they could travel the necessary distance without getting caught by anyone.

As long as the Sysselmannen doesn’t fly over in her helicopter.

If the Sysselmannen had indeed returned to Longyearbyen, he doubted she would make the long journey down the southern point after turning back the day before.

For the next hour and a half, Yolkov mushed ahead. With each passing minute, his anticipation grew stronger. He looked forward to seeing his family. He looked forward to the reward. He looked forward to a new life. In the days since he first started, he’d come to realize that he didn’t want his old job with the Spetsnaz back. It was the end of the line; one final mission for the motherland.

With reality settling in for Yolkov, a man whose identity had been immersed in his role with the Spetsnaz, he couldn’t help but reflect how his time serving with the Russian special forces had changed him. Carrying out atrocities in the name of direct orders expedited the removal of all such compassion from his life. He killed defenseless farmers because they proved to be stubborn roadblocks to achieving Spetsnaz missions. He hung thieves in the forest and planted explosives in separatists’ camps. The taking of another person’s life had become rote. Yet a full extraction hadn’t occurred. A modicum of compassion remained, one that ultimately led to his dismissal. He’d never forget it—or regret it, no matter how disappointing the outcome.

Yolkov had been assigned to secure a small building in a remote location of the Black Forest for the Russian trade minister. Highly regarded and respected as a family man, the trade minister was anything but that, as Yolkov quickly learned. On that particular detail, he discovered that the location was used as a place to conceal the trade minister’s extracurricular sexual exploits.

That evening while the trade minister was finishing his final engagement, Yolkov found a Chinese woman lurking in the bushes. She was dressed up and appeared as though she might have been a guest who escaped from the party. He radioed to the guard at the entrance to find out if she was on any guest lists. She wasn’t. Despite the appearances, he knew the truth: none of those women were there on their own accord. Many of them were married and taken there against their will, forced to commit a litany of unmentionable acts.

Yolkov was under strict orders to shoot on sight anyone perceived to be a threat—and she fit the profile.

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