Target Two by Jack Mars

Author:Jack Mars [Mars, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jack Mars
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“The mercenary got killed.”

Alpha One looked up from his communique.

Gamma Two stood before him in the plain concrete room of the bunker, a burly man in his younger years, in contrast to Alpha One’s graying hair and compact, pantherish body. Gamma Two was head of external communications, brains as well as brawn. Enough to be trusted with The Order’s contacts with the outside world, but no match for Alpha One. An endless succession of operations and chess and sparring matches in between those operations, had shown the older man to be the better in all ways.

“Who killed him?”

“Unclear. Our contacts in the police say he died from multiple gunshot wounds and grenade shrapnel, apparently from his own grenade.”

“Jacob Snow?”

“He was last seen in Marrakesh, so it’s possible, and he hasn’t been spotted in Marrakesh since the mercenary failed. Jana has also disappeared.”

Alpha One sat back and considered. The Order frequently employed freelancers to mask its own identity and intentions. While it was better to handle things yourself, secrecy was of paramount importance. The Tunisian had been a good choice, a true professional. He should have been able to handle a woman with only informal training, even if that training had come from Aaron Peters.

So, he had been intercepted, most likely by Jacob. Although he couldn’t discount the possibility that another CIA agent had been involved. Jana was getting close to that organization, far too close. She had helped out on the Suez Canal operation, an operation that ironically helped The Order too since they smuggled so much of their material through that maritime channel. It was not beyond the realm of possibility that she was helping out the CIA again.

“We’re trying to track them,” Gamma Two said. “There’s some indication that they’ve left Morocco together.”

“Where to?”

“We’re not sure yet.”

Alpha One tapped his finger on his desk, lost in thought for a moment.

“Another mission? That’s a bad development. She’ll gain more experience in the field. She might even be taken on as a full-time civilian assistant. We can’t have that. We need to grab her while she’s still vulnerable.”

“I still think we should go straight for Jacob, instead of pussyfooting around with secondary targets,” Gamma Two growled.

Alpha One smiled. While his word was law, he encouraged subordinates to speak their mind. It provided smoother operations and was good for morale.

“And where should we go for him? We only hear about him after he’s been and gone. He’s like a phantom.”

“Post a watchman outside the Athens field office and wait until he shows up. Yes, it could take days. Weeks. Months even. But then we could tail him to his house.”

They knew that Jacob had a house somewhere on the outskirts of Athens, but they had not been able to determine where.

“That won’t work. The agents at the field office would spot a watchman.”

“A shopfront has just come up for rent on that street.”

“Where is it in relation to the Chinese restaurant and the fruit seller?”

Both of those businesses were run by people on the CIA payroll.

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