The Hemingway Deception by Tj O'Connor

Author:Tj O'Connor [O'Connor, Tj]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political, Vigilante, Revenge, justice, Cuba, Strong Female Characters, Police Procedural
Publisher: Suspense Publishing
Published: 2023-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

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June 14, Very Early Morning—Queens, New York

Outside, Trane’s operatives were strategically posted throughout the neighborhood. They took tactical positions on both ends of the street, around the house, and near the sedan where Trane’s two agents sat dead in the front seat. Tomãs had executed them without a struggle. He’d shown no mercy.

Ana had shown him the same courtesy.

She stopped on the front stoop and surveyed the area. “I’m sorry about your men.”

“So am I.” Trane looked down the street where his team was working the sedan with the two dead operatives inside. “I’m sorry, too, Ana, for you having to send your family away and for having to involve you in all this. But you’re our best chance of stopping Hemingway.”

If Trane’s people weren’t his best chance, could she truly handle what was coming? Vergara’s Cuban operatives were pros—evidenced by Tomãs’s lethal success against Trane’s team in the sedan. Tomãs’s weakness had been overestimating himself. If he hadn’t been so overconfident, she might be dead. Yet, Trane felt she was his best chance. Was she?

“I’ll do my best. But understand, I’m in this for our deal, nothing more. Remember that.”

“Got it.”

Ana knew that if she was going to survive this dangerous game with Trane, she’d have to dig deep and employ all her skills from her past. Everyone wanted Hemingway: the CIA, the Cubans, who knew who else might be in the game. The Cubans already showed they were willing to kill in order to win. Back in the Caverns, she’d learned the stakes. What she couldn’t fathom was why and how her parents had become entwined with a Cuban assassin heading to America. Joining FARC was one thing. She’d understood, for the most part, how they could join a cause fighting a corrupt government oppressing its people. For too long, she’d believed she was a revolutionary too, fighting the good fight. Her disillusionment had come when she’d witnessed the defenders of justice become no better than their enemy.

Still, what they’d done had little direct impact on her home—on America. Hemingway was different. There was no misunderstanding what would happen if Hemingway succeeded in assassinating Washington leaders. There would be retaliation against Havana. It could escalate ferociously. There could be war, and not just with a small Caribbean island.

For her, however, the crisis was not communism vs. democracy. Not Havana vs. Washington. It was simpler than that. It was a little seven-year-old orphan. It was Mamá and Pappa. Yiayia Poppi. It was about a new life. A safe life. Family.

All that was impossible if Hemingway succeeded. If that meant traveling to Mexico and hunting Hemingway—even with the CIA—then that is what she was going to do. Her family for Hemingway.

It was no choice at all.

“Let’s go, Ana. In my Suburban.” Trane signaled his men they were ready. “I’ve got transport waiting.”

“What about McLaren?”

“Yeah, him.” He guided her toward a large black Suburban parked just outside the fence gate. “McLaren wants you at the Caverns until I have your mother. I’m to take my team to Monterrey and retrieve her.

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