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Failure to Fire
When Na’il Miraj arrives at an al Qaeda recruiting station in Paris, he is seen by the organization’s leaders as a gift from Allah. Their hope is that the former U.S. Army missile repair technician could turn their horde of out-of-date Stinger missiles into functioning weapons.
The discovery of Stinger missiles that failed to fire in a farmer’s field in North Texas in the fall of 2016 should have set off alarm bells within the last few months of a lame duck administration. But they didn’t.
There were those in the CIA who thought differently. Derek Almer is encouraged to start a small think tank by a friend in the CIA to research the threat of man portable, shoulder mounted surface-to-air missiles known by the acronym MANPADS. Helped by a little luck and intelligence from his contacts within the Mossad, Derek’s firms learns that the terrorist group has smuggled Russian-made Igla-S’s, as well as Stingers, into the U.S. Miraj’s plan—shoot down enough airliners to kill thousands and shut down the world’s air transportation system.
The question Derek Almer has to answer is when and where will the missiles be used?
The discovery of Stinger missiles that failed to fire in a farmer’s field in North Texas in the fall of 2016 should have set off alarm bells within the last few months of a lame duck administration. But they didn’t.
There were those in the CIA who thought differently. Derek Almer is encouraged to start a small think tank by a friend in the CIA to research the threat of man portable, shoulder mounted surface-to-air missiles known by the acronym MANPADS. Helped by a little luck and intelligence from his contacts within the Mossad, Derek’s firms learns that the terrorist group has smuggled Russian-made Igla-S’s, as well as Stingers, into the U.S. Miraj’s plan—shoot down enough airliners to kill thousands and shut down the world’s air transportation system.
The question Derek Almer has to answer is when and where will the missiles be used?
421 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 22, 2022
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Marc Liebman
24 books47 followersMarc Liebman is an experienced writer as well as a Naval Aviator combat veteran of both Vietnam and Desert Shield/Desert Storm. He retired as a Captain after twenty-four years in the Navy and a career that took him all over the world. Marc has worked with the armed forces of Australia, Canada, Japan, Thailand, Republic of Korea, the Philippines and the U.K.
He has just under 6,,000 hours of pilot-in-command/co-pilot flight time in a variety of tactical military, civilian fixed and rotary wing aircraft. In the business world, he has been the CEO of an aerospace and defense manufacturing firm, an associate editor of a national magazine and a copywriter for a advertising agency. Marc lives in North Texas with his wife of 50+ years and Standard Poodle and spends a lot of time visiting his seven grand-children.
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