To Kill Kat
Trapped in Ukraine as Anita Franco, Kat is ‘dead’, for the second time. During a midnight walk she spots a red light on the horizon, a warning that her life is in danger once more.
It is the first strike of a terrorist campaign against Americans in Europe and already innocent people are marked for death. One man is behind this, saying that the Americans in Europe are part of an Army of Occupation. His plan is as selfish as it is simple, but he has made a serious mistake. He should have left Kat alone.
While she is on the run, people are being killed. She arrives safely in Spain and calls Paul Devlyn for help to get her name and life back, but he has conditions.
Kat re-ups with M-CI and partners with Paul to stop the killing. As they search for clues, Kat feels sure that something has happened to her since she and Paul got together in Madrid.
A clue takes them to Marseilles. They wound and capture terrorist and must recruit a doctor to keep him alive. He tells them the man they are looking for is in Zurich, his name is Helmut Kroner. Suddenly the doctor rushes in, kills their witness and one of their team.
While Devlyn puts together a new team to take Kroner prisoner, Kat sees a doctor in Paris and confirms that she is pregnant with Devlyn’s child. She decides not to tell him. On her way to rejoin Paul, Kat is waylaid by an associate of Kroner’s and Kat kills him then goes to the safehouse.
Devlyn urges Kat to move on Kroner alone. She takes him alive and forces him to give up the man who employs him. His boss is Arnulf Jäger, the man who would be emperor of Europe. Jäger lives in a fortress built on an old monastery foundation on a mountain above Peredicci Italy.
While Devlyn leaves to take Kroner back to the States, Kat goes off the reservation forming a small team and a plan to finish the job.
Jäger knows she will come for him. When they arrive, the plan goes wrong, she is captured, two of her team are killed, the other two are locked in a dungeon. As he is questioning Kat, Jäger reveals that both Kroner and Devlyn are dead. Now, he wants her to kill Vladimir Mogilevski. If she returns with proof, he promises to let her and her team go. Of course, he is lying, so while she is in New York she contacts M-CI. With the permission of the Italian government, they devise a plan to take Jäger out once and for all.
She fakes Vlad’s death, then goes back to deliver the proof with a targeting device for a drone strike around her neck. Though there is a plan to save her, she is certain that she won’t survive. Two men from Special Forces find a way into the mountain using a tunnel built by monks and they pull Kat and her two team members out just as the huge bomb is dropped on the Fortress.
Unbelievably, Jäger also escapes and disappears. The terrorist campaign ends and Kat returns to Canada to prepare a home for her baby.
A year later, Jager’s henchman plants a bomb under Kat’s house, it is set to go off when Jäger calls to gloat, so he can listen to her die as the blast destroys her home. But once again she escapes with her daughter Sara. As soon as Sara is secure in her safehouse in Toronto Kat goes after Jäger. She finds him in the jungle of Guyana, fights through his defenses, and finally puts an end to the viper. On her return home to Sara, Kat has a chance meeting with Deacon Loats, the man she fell in love with years before, and as she and Sara find the normal life she has longed for, they become reacquainted. But will it last?
Table of Content
Prologue1
1
By The Sea Of Azov 5
There Are No Do-Overs 8
Policing her brass 11
On The Horizon 14
2
Berdyans’k 16
Callers From Switzerland 19
3
You Can Run 22
But Can You Hide? 23
Hotel Ibrahim Pasha 26
4
Given License 32
A Distracted Moment 33
5
Night Callers 34
The Second Wave 38
6
New York, New York 44
To Familiar Ground 44
A Call For Help 47
The Hostel Falfes 49
An Uneasy Prelude 52
7
Contact 54
The Cavalry 55
By Her Rules 61
8
A Soccer Tour 64
9
A NEW WAR 68
The Enemy Has A Name 69
Conference Room Briefing 72
Washington D. C. 77
10
The Gold Trader 82
Pan European Movement 83
11
LOURMARIN, FRANCE 86
Opportunist? 86
The Mounting Crisis 87
Jäger’s Press Conference 88
Europol HQ 89
The Unwelcome 92
Another Link 93
A Key Suspect 94
12
Laying The Foundation 95
The Silent Partner 96
13
Retribution 98
14
Behind This Door 100
Police Work 101
Docked In Odessa 101
Going To America 105
Part 2
15
An American Exodus 108
16
Under The Gun In Brussels 113
In Stunned Silence 120
17
Who Is To Blame? 122
A Face, A Name 124
Fools Rush In 124
A Floating Safehouse 125
18
To Apprehend 128
Dockside Security 133
Sailing For Monaco 139
Making Way Up The Coast 142
Rebecca In Angry Seas 144
19
Short Leave in Paris 152
Vogelgrun, France 153
Paris 153
20
Paris 155
Zürich, District 4 163
No Sacrifice Too Great 168
Casing The Glass House Security 170
21
This Is Death Calling 172
The Story Of Jäger Emerged 176
22
THE NEW MISSION 178
CIA Safehouse 179
Part 3
23
Meeting In Rome 182
Poggio Bustone 183
Back To Peredicci 184
24
Foray Into Enemy Territory 186
Establishing Her Cover 187
Lido Hotel 188
On The Mountain 189
25
Alarm Bells . 193
26
When Things Go Wrong 196
27
A Captive Now 198
28
Destination New Jersey 205
Reporting In 206
A New Plan 208
Taking Manhattan 209
29
Old Friends 211
30
Fort Meade 215
31
Pre-Show Jitters 219
Special Forces In Naples 221
32
71 Street And Central Park West 222
33
Sunrise On The Mountain 227
Teterboro Airport 229
The Tunnel Entrance 230
To Umbria 231
On The Mountain Side 233
34
Inside The Golden Fortress 235
Historical Reference 242
On The Mountainside 243
Inside The Fortress Cell 245
Heading Down The Mountain 246
At The Top 246
35
MONTE SAN GIOVANNI 251
Part 4
36
A Family Of Two 253
37
Following The Explosion 261
King St. Safehouse 262
38
Toronto 264
New York 267
Georgetown, Guyana 268
Leaving Parika, Guyana 271
Bartica, Guyana 278
Into The Jungle 286
39
From Port Of Spain
To Toronto 298
Arriving In Toronto 299
Epilogue 305
About The Author 307
About the author
Hugh Russel has always been a storyteller and it shows in everything he has done. Following graduation from a commercial arts program and a brief stint in the US Army, Hugh had his first showing of paintings in 1969, at the age of 20. Further demonstrating his artistic flexibility, at 22 he began hosting a long running and hugely popular radio program at Toronto’s top FM station while at the same time writing and illustrating children’s stories and other commercial projects. In the mid ’80s, Hugh gravitated to sculpture and his works in bronze, stories of movement and emotion caught in an instant, have been included in private, corporate and public collections around the world, including the Vatican Collection. In the ’90s he began writing adult fiction and has, over the past two decades, been developing the characters of the Kat Fernando Series. He lives and works with his wife Cheryl in the beautiful Niagara Escarpment Region of Ontario.
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