The Jerusalem Assassin by Joel C. Rosenberg

Author:Joel C. Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Military
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2020-03-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Marcus glanced at his watch as thunder boomed and it began to pour.

It was six minutes past closing time. He was the last customer sitting in the Starbucks near the corner of Pennsylvania and Seventeenth Street, a stone’s throw from the White House complex. The staff were wiping down counters and mopping floors, but the manager told him as long as he kept buying, she’d let him stay.

Then she told him why.

She remembered him from his days with the Secret Service. He’d been a regular, after all. Moreover, she told him that she remembered the day he’d been awarded the Medal of Valor for defending the president and the White House staff through a terror attack she otherwise had chosen to forget. She’d watched the whole ceremony on TV, as had everyone in the store that day. If he wanted to sit in her coffeehouse after hours all alone, then so be it. He was always welcome.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Three men stood outside.

“Those your friends?” the manager asked.

Marcus nodded, and she unlocked the door and let them in.

“You gentlemen want anything?” she asked.

The two large men with earpieces said, “No thank you, ma’am.”

Bill McDermott, on the other hand, asked for a cup of “something strong, as big as you’ve got.” She obliged him, then gave them their space. One agent took up a position by the front door. The other checked to make sure no one was in either of the bathrooms before taking a post by the back door.

“What’s this all about, Marcus?” McDermott asked.

“I need to see the president.”

“What for?”

Marcus explained his lunchtime conversation. The acting national security advisor was as stunned as Marcus had been. He asked a flurry of questions. But in the end, intrigued if not entirely satisfied by Marcus’s answers, he pulled out his government-issued BlackBerry and hit the first number on his speed dial.

“Maggie, I need fifteen minutes with POTUS—no, right now—and give the Secret Service a heads-up. I’m bringing in an old friend.”

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