Wet Work by Mark A Hewitt

Wet Work by Mark A Hewitt

Author:Mark A Hewitt [Hewitt, Mark A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781684333608
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2020-01-01T16:00:00+00:00


39

November 8

Over the Atlantic

The C-17 took the great circle route over Israel and Europe, passing just south of the southern white tip of oxymoronically named Greenland. Crew and passengers moved to the starboard side of the jet to view a uniform sheet of white ice and snow jutting to the south in a “V,” like a paper snow cone cup. Blue sky above, blue ocean below, white acute triangle in the middle, stretching to the horizon, an inverse vanishing point. No icebergs anywhere.

The U.S. Air Force Globemaster aircrew were blissfully unaware of the mission into Syria, but the somber mood of the Agency personnel as they emplaned had warned them to go about their business of aviating, navigating, and communicating. The headwinds picked up significantly as the coastline of Nova Scotia came into view.

Hunter, Lynche and Nazy took in the sights from the cockpit. When Hunter decided to leave the crew alone to do their business, Lynche and Nazy followed. Hunter nibbled on the remains of cold pizza, looked at Lynche, and asked, “Are we going to have a new president?” Nazy frowned, curious about where Duncan’s mind had wandered.

Lynche said, “I don’t think it looks good for President Hernandez. The media and the Democrats are killing him on every issue. He’s down in the polls—double digits; that’s not where you want to be on Election Day. She’ll be the next president.”

Hunter said, “I think ‘dumbass’ has morphed into a species. Do you think an op like this…ah, would it make a difference? Help him?”

Lynche had been in Washington for years. He knew the pulse of the city, Virginia, and Maryland. All run by Democrats. He said, “Too timely, too cute, too much of everything. They’d find a way to drag him through the mud for that too. They’d blame him for the SEALs getting captured and for the way they were freed, if Al-Jazeera has good video.”

Hunter smiled and asked, “What if it was leaked?”

Greg Lynche got very serious. As he thought about it, he shook his head. “I don’t think so. No. Who do you have in mind?”

“Eastwood.”

The name raised Lynche’s eyebrows a foot and contorted his body and face. It was body language for Absolutely no way! Once he stopped twitching, like a whitetail buck in the last moments of its life after being hit by a truck, he said, “I don’t think it’ll make a difference. Too little, too late. And, I think if Al-Jazeera has video. they’d get it to American or British networks just to muddy the waters.”

Nazy asked, “Why is that?”

Lynche said, “The media and the Democrats are screaming at the top of their lungs trying to convince Americans that Hernandez has been guilty of a conspiracy and complicit on everything from crusading against Muslims to colluding with the Russians. A tape of children being executed would cause an international and domestic, though faux, outrage.”

“Those Russians….” Hunter added, “The left completely ignores Tussy’s obvious crimes conducting espionage.



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