Veteran CIA operative Jack Wilder is called upon to discreetly investigate the assassination of a high level OPEC oil analyst on the verge of announcing a startling discovery. More complications arise when the body of Wilder’s best friend, also an oil analyst, is found in a field on the outskirts of Houston. More bodies begin to fall as Wilder gets closer to discovering the truth.
Addison Cooper was a highly trained operative in the CIA’s off the books Looking Glass unit. She nearly lost her life in a covert Middle East operation that went horribly wrong. After several months of reconstructive surgeries and excruciating rehabilitation she was finally able to leave the hospital and her CIA career behind. Over time she traded it all in for a beautiful quiet life becoming a homemaker and mother in a small picturesque New England town. A tragic preventable act of gun violence took the life of the one she loved shattering her perfect life. Now, using her resurrected CIA skills she is back and on a mission, a mission to make America understand that changes need to be made to curb the gun violence epidemic sweeping across the nation. With nothing left to lose she's going to make them listen or die trying.
Sergei heard a noise off to his left, it sounded like a rock hitting somewhere in the square. He stepped away from the wall and turned in the direction of the sound. The silent assailant wasted no time quickly doing a double wrap of the piano wire around the Russian’s neck, while putting her knee in the middle of his back and pulling the wooden handles attached to each end of the wire. The knee in the back gave the assassin the extra leverage she needed to easily dispatch her target. Sergei instinctively reached to his
throat trying to disengage the piano wire as he struggled to breathe. His vision began to fade. Blood oozed around the edges of the garrote. In just under a minute Sergei lay dead in a crumpled heap on the concrete next to Lenin’s tomb. A light snow began to fall as the assassin slipped away.
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