ASIN: B00H3HHXMG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 328
Atcho peers through the sniper scope.Crosshairs neatly divide the irregular birthmark on the target’s forehead. What’s the penalty for assassinating a foreign head-of-state on US soil?He buries the thought, takes a breath, holds it, and squeezes the trigger. Another man moves in front of the target.Atcho remains steady while in his mind’s eye he re-lives the events that had brought him to this point. Graduation with honors on a military parade field. Abandoned in battle. Seventeen years in the world’s worst dungeons. Separated from his motherless child. Coerced into espionage against the adopted country he loves.He has no way out.He creates one.The target clears. He sights on the birthmark once more. A persistent thought invades his concentration. How fast does World War III start after I take the shot? As he applies pressure to the cold, curved steel against his finger, another thought ...
