“How much time do I have left to live?” asked the man.
“You are the property of Mother Russia! We’ll tell you when to die.” His handler replied.
The year is 2016. The Presidency is up for grabs, again. Once, the man had engineered the election of the first black American President. After eight years of the oblivion, they called on him to prevent losing to an outsider. Just like before, death, destruction, and a trail of assassinations follow him.
This time, it hits home. When the man learns that his KGB handlers are after an innocent young woman close to him, he sets out to save her life. Soon he finds that she too joined the assassin's trade to avenge the deaths of her own.
Russian Election Meddling is here again. There was no need for the meddling. It has been going on much longer than most people realize.
The novel is a sequel to “The American Deluge,” published in 2014.
Genre: FICTION / EspionageThe novel is widely sold through Amazon, B and N, and through major retailers where books are sold. It is made into an Audio Book.
At the moment, Joe had under his watch twenty-five billion dollars. Although it was a huge amount, it was a chump change if compared to a combined wealth of the oligarchs the Russians had installed in the West in the past ten years. The oligarchs were their doorway into the Western banking system. They were also a pipeline transferring dollars from selling Russian natural resources to whomever would pay a higher price. Through their oligarchs, the Russians had purchased a prime real estate in the most desirable locales around the world, anywhere from London to Tokyo, to Miami and New York. They had purchased Major League basketball, soccer and hockey teams. They had acquired businesses in many areas of the world economy. No one had an exact count of private jets, yachts and art they owned. Except, for their handlers at Federal Security Bureau (FSB). Joe was sure about that.
With all their ritz and glitz, Joe also knew that each one of the oligarchs was walking a fine line. They had no permanent value to the Russians. They lived and enjoyed living until they were allowed to live. They were disposable at any moment. That was the main difference between them and Joe.
How Joe could be so sure? He was a living proof of that after Leonid’s self-staged disappearance just a few months ago. Leonid managed to convince Joe that Joe had outlived his usefulness to the Russians. His bluff had worked. Joe was ready to die. And yet, to that moment, he had outlived all the Soviet Communist leaders, a dozen of US Presidents, hundreds of the KGB agents, and uncountable number of the oligarchs. That was how Joe could be so sure that he was always needed. But just in money matters.
