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Being the son of a psychotically paranoid former CIA officer came with a few drawbacks.
Mom deserved to be recognized for her entire life’s accomplishments,
In fact, no contact between operatives outside of a CONTROL-assigned mission was permitted for any reason.
“True to form, your mother left instructions,” said Berg, tapping the notepad.
His mother had identified seventy additional sleeper couples that fit the same profile as the Kelleys, Holmans, and Wilsons. Materialized out of thin air in the early seventies. Regular jobs.
One moment they didn’t exist. The next—they were college freshmen.
A few semiautomatic pistols. A decked-out, short-barrel AR-15 that he suspected hadn’t been properly licensed. One of those new Scorpion EVO nine-millimeter carbines. Plenty of ammunition. Two sets of body armor and night vision gear. A nice array of person-to-person communications equipment, along with dozens of burner phones and a few more touch screen satellite phones. GPS tracking devices. Knives. Flash-bang grenades. Ketamine vials. Syringes. The usual stuff you’d find in your mom’s hidden safe.
They planned to use the network to reshape the geopolitical world in their favor, by flatlining US global influence.
Napoleon in 1812. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Betrayed and invaded by Hitler’s armies in 1941. One of Stalin’s main objectives in the aftermath of World War II was to create a buffer from future European and Middle Eastern invaders, which he did by creating the Eastern Bloc. This need for geographical security is ingrained in their DNA.”
So he could thank her for protecting them and tell her she’d made the right decision. That he was proud to be her son, not embarrassed.
Was it possible to have it both ways if they took the fight against the Russians to the next level?
He couldn’t shake the distinct feeling that they wouldn’t all be alive for the next one.
