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A MYSTERIOUS KILL

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A Mysterious Kill

Hedge Fund Manager, John Billington, is assassinated in New York with a high-powered rifle. Jake Tyler a NYPD Detective gets the case. They find a high-level conspiracy at play. Jean Billington the wife of the deceased isn’t upset. She is part of a secret group called ‘the organisation’. Jean Billington carries out tasks for the organisation and is kidnapped by the Russian Mob who suspect her husband swindled them out of funds. Tyler witnesses Jean being taken.
The F.B.I assist NYPD in the investigation. An F.B.I agent passing information to Jean Billington is murdered as the investigation escalates.
Tyler fails to find Jean Billington. He links the dead F.B.I agent to Jean Billington as a search for her ensues.
‘The organisation’ plans to collapse the N.Y. Stock Market and kidnap of the President. John Billington was buying stock and devaluing them on the world markets.
Several attempts on Tyler’s life are made but fail.
The Director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, General Ridley, is visited in Washington by the President’s wife. Both are members of ‘the organisation’. He is too unreliable and the First Lady orders his elimination.
The vice-president is killed in a drone attack so the Speaker of the House will become President. The Speaker, John Vickers, is a member of ‘the organisation’.
The kidnapping the President proceeds during a G7 summit in New York. Lucas Madero, a former member of the Tupamaro Street Gang in Venezuela is tasked by ‘the organisation’ with the job. Madero handler is Jean Billington, two bombs go off at the hotel and Madero, neutralises the Secret Service team, kidnapping the President.
Madero escapes Manhattan to Long Island, Tyler locates the house. The President is wounded. Madero is shot, a car chase ends up at a pier on Long Island Sound. Tyler frees the President, Madero dies.
Tyler hears that Madero revealed that Jean Billington was behind the kidnapping. Tyler had spotted Jean Billington and FLOTUS at the hotel.
An attempt on Tyler’s life is made at the Gowanus Batcave, N.Y. where he went for information on Jean Billington but fails, aided by John Baker, an ex-Special Forces friend. Tyler finds Billington and negotiations begins with Billington giving up the First Lady for immunity and is put in Witness Protection.
An armed force attacks the safehouse. The house is overrun with most US Marshals killed. Tyler, O’Reilly and Billington narrowly escape.
The First Lady knows the game is up, pens a letter to her husband, puts it in a safe in the White House and leaves. She drives across the centre line of a busy road deliberately colliding with an oncoming mobile crane. Despite efforts to save her fail, she dies from catastrophic blood loss.
The President reads the letter which discloses John Vickers (Speaker) as her handler in ‘the organisation’.
Tyler on entering his apartment is jumped, drugged only to find his captor is Agent Gill of the Def. Intell. Agency, they agree to collaborate to find Jean Billington.
Jean Billington enters N.Y. District Courthouse, a sniper fires a shot to kill her. The sniper misses but is killed by John Baker who John Vickers paid to kill the shooter and Jean Billington. Baker aims at Billington but misses, Tyler spots him. Tyler rushes to the roof and shoots his friend. John Baker dies but revealed that John Vickers ordered the hit.
John Vickers’ Speaker of the House, is exposed in the First Lady’s letter to her husband along with Baker’s Dying Declaration.
The President meets at Vickers’s house , conversation is taped. Vickers incriminates himself.

323 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 11, 2022

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A great read. Really enjoyed this book. Looking forward to more from the Author.
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