Other People’s Mail
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It was very dark that night. Pug was driving carefully, running the tractor up through the gears. A tan Land Rover pulled around and sped away. Ben noted that the vehicle took the turnoff to Piraeus ahead of them, but nothing seemed out of place. As they came around a slight curve, the Land Rover was sitting across the road. Two men had gotten out of the vehicle. One of the men had something that looked liked four or five feet of tubing with a bulb on the end. They realized, at the same time, that it was a Soviet RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade). Pug turned the big tractor to the right, just as the weapon was fired. The RPG hit the front of the tractor about a foot off the center of the grill. The world exploded in front of them.
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Intelligence work is a great deal like flying. While flying is hours of sheer boredom with moments of stark terror, intelligence work is weeks of sheer boredom with moments of stark panic. Ben Jourdon works an analyst at the National Security Agency, specializing in the Middle East. He hadn't sought the job, and he isn’t sure he even wants it. As with many of the things in life, though, Ben has little choice—the job is an excellent cover. The only thing he ever really wanted was to be a career Air Force flying officer, but that was not to be. After six years of flying, he had been medically grounded, courtesy of a bullet in Vietnam, and had to seek a new direction. The next six years saw him working as a Signals Intelligence Officer, but that came to an end on a dark street in Athens some eight years before. As for his true avocation, though, he was a professional assassin. What a surprise it would be for the security people at the NSA to find out about this other job …
About the Author
M. James Terrell was an Air Force officer, a navigator/radar operator, and a Signals Intelligence Officer with the Air Force Security Service. Academic credentials include three degrees with a Master of Science. Presently he resides in the southwestern U.S. with his wife.