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    Assassination in Jacksonville
    Assassination in Jacksonville
    Assassination in Jacksonville
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    Assassination in Jacksonville

    By Mike Ward

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    Stephen Haggerty used to work for the British SAS. He was trained to go into the houses of Gulf Arabs in the Middle East and kill the guards and then the occupants. One day the British government threw Haggerty on the scrap heap and he was reduced to driving trucks for $7 an hour. Three years ago Stephen Haggerty was introduced to an American from Philadelphia and now he has a completely different kind of job for a very secretive organization based in Pennsylvania.

    A multi-millionaire Jewish investor who was badly screwed by one of the major investment banks in 2008 is finally ready to take revenge on the female executive who screwed him over. The recession would have come anyway in 2008 but the timing of the recession was triggered by the bank’s decision to dump as many of its toxic assets as possible in a one day sale in October 2008. Jacob Rothstein was one of the preferential investors offered the buy of a lifetime.

    Rothstein has not forgiven and he has not forgotten. He wants photos of Woodlock’s dead body delivered to his house. Stephen Haggerty is flying into Jacksonville, Florida from Europe. There are two names on his hit file. One is Lori Woodlock and the other is Simon Haslam who is her live in lover. Simon Haslam is eleven years younger than Lori Woodlock and is built like a competitive body builder. If he is in the house when Stephen Haggerty arrives then Haggerty will break his neck but there are two possible fates for Simon Haslam. In one he dies with Lori Woodlock, in another he lives to have a wife and family. Lori Woodlock will die because she is marked for death and Stephen Haggerty never fails but that does not have to happen to Simon Haslam. Will he die or will he get to live; read on and find out. Who knows, perhaps Haslam will kill Stephen Haggerty and they will both get to live?

    Books in the Assassin Stephen Haggerty Series:

    Assassination in Washington D.C.
    Assassination in Miami
    Assassination in Alaska
    Assassination in Detroit
    Assassination in Jacksonville
    Assassination in Orlando
    Assassination in Toronto
    Assassination in Annapolis
    Assassination in Los Angeles
    Assassination in Portland

    All these books will be at your favorite ebook retailer soon

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ward
    Release dateJun 10, 2016
    ISBN9781310051463
    Assassination in Jacksonville
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    Mike Ward

    Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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      Assassination in Jacksonville - Mike Ward

      Assassination in Jacksonville

      by Mike Ward

      (Author of The Banker With a Face Full of Evil)

      Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

      Published by Mike Ward at Smashwords

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      Assassination in Jacksonville

      Excerpt from Assassination in Toronto

      About Mike Ward

      Other Books by Mike Ward

      Connect with Mike Ward

      Excerpt from The Banker With a Face Full of Evil

      Assassination in Jacksonville

      Stephen Haggerty looked out over the balcony of his house. At the back of the house Bethany Mitzmacher was laying down on a sun lounger with a book in her hands. Bethany wore only the bottom part of her bikini. She had one leg pulled up and a drink was on a small table beside the lounger. The sun was reflecting back from her flat stomach and it occurred to Haggerty that she might burn her nipples if she wasn’t careful. He doubted that she had much opportunity in America to sunbathe topless.

      Bethany had been nude in every room of his house. That was not his comment, she had actually sent an email to one of her friends with those exact words in it. For the first time in a long time Stephen Haggerty was completely relaxed and the woman sitting on his back patio had a lot to do with it. Haggerty walked back over to the center island in his kitchen and began peeling garlic. When it was done he tossed the garlic cloves into the pan on top of the meat that was sitting there and then added a string of herbs. Some of the herbs were fresh from the garden, others were dried herbs. He also added cumin, coriander and turmeric. His cooking owed allegiance not to any one country but was rather a mix of European and Indian cooking. He very rarely used a recipe book and pretty much cooked from scratch. In another life he might have had it in him to be a chef in a high end restaurant but in this life he used different tools and the woman sitting on the patio below had no idea that Haggerty had once gone into the houses of Gulf Arabs and shot them for the British government.

      His reward, when he left the elite British S.A.S unit had been a job that paid the equivalent of five dollars an hour and a life without a future. However, where the British government saw a man they had no use for anymore, an American group out of Philadelphia saw a man they could shape and use. As a result Stephen Haggerty killed targets in America for the group out of Philadelphia and he killed those targets using the same skills that had at one time made him so valuable to the British government. He had not yet worked out what he would say to Bethany Mitzmacher about what he did. When he had met her on a flight to Anchorage, Alaska on his way to kill Alex Ulyanov his cover story had been that he was consultant for a mining company. That was one of the backgrounds the group in Philadelphia had set up for him and it could hold up against some serious checking if it needed to. He also had another cover as an international art dealer which gave him a reason to travel to unusual parts of the world. He tended to mainly kill people in America although he knew that he was not the only assassin working for the group out of Philadelphia. However, in Haggerty’s world there was no Christmas party run by the executives of the company where you got to mingle with your co-workers. Haggerty wasn’t even sure if he would ever get to meet any of his co-workers and he certainly wouldn’t want to meet any of them in a back alley. He added the last of the spices to the stew and then he went downstairs to sit with Bethany.

      Bethany was Jewish and making love to her had been an exciting experience. Unlike Catholicism and other Christian religions the Jewish religion taught that sex was a gift from God and was meant to be enjoyed and not frowned upon. It had also occurred to Haggerty that there was something else missing from the Jewish religion and that was the absence of guilt. The early Roman Catholic Church had placed great stress on guilt and it had occurred to Haggerty after talking to Bethany that Rome in 300 A.D. had been a place that was probably totally lacking in guilt whereas by 400 A.D. almost everyone in the city was probably wracked by guilt as by then pretty much everyone in Rome was either a Christian or they were dead, their temples burnt to the ground.

      He walked out onto the patio and Bethany smiled up at him. Her nipples were definitely beginning to burn and he adjusted the sun umbrella so that she was in the shade. She very rarely saw the sun in Anchorage and she wanted to stay out in it until he explained exactly why he had moved the umbrella to cover her. She smiled and passed him the sun cream. He was gentle as he rubbed the cream in. When he finished she put her hand out and took hold of his jaw, gently pulling him to her and then kissing him. Haggerty was not used to this treatment. Although he had occasional girlfriends and there were women available on the island’s capital if he needed them he had not been close to anyone for a while.

      He had wondered in the past what would have happened if he had gotten a job with a decent salary when he came out of the S.A.S. He might well have been a husband and father by now with a regular job and a house in the English suburbs. But there were no jobs in England and instead he lived on an island in the Mediterranean chosen mainly for the fact that its capital city had a population of 405,000 and its airport had flights to most destinations in Europe. When he flew to America he usually went through Amsterdam, he had found KLM to be much more reliable than some of the other airlines. There was one airline in particular that never left enough time to get you through immigration when you arrived in the States and after missing two connecting flights in a row he had vowed he would never use that airline again.

      He reached over and mimed pulling the bottom part of Bethany’s swimsuit down. He expected her to put her hand out to stop him but she didn’t. Although she was covered in sun tan lotion he picked her up and carried her into his house. He was strong enough to walk upstairs with her in his arms and he stopped only long enough to pull a bath towel out of the closet to put on the bed.

      Haggerty was in his study. The door was locked and he had the hit files open on his main computer. He had two computers in his study and the one he was using was not connected to the internet. He had the other computer up as well and he was using that to look at a map of Jacksonville in Florida. His target lived in Fleming Island. Fleming Island was not an island at all although it was surrounded on two sides by water. Give a place a name that has the word island in it in Florida and the prices skyrocket and that was exactly what had happened in Fleming Island. He pulled up his target’s address on the map. He was looking at a standard Florida subdivision. The houses were mostly single story homes although there were a few two story ones. He went down into street view and saw that his target’s house was on two levels. He opened another window and looked at the house from above. The house backed onto what was essentially a retention pond although it was styled to look like a lake. Any part of Florida could receive several inches of rain in one storm and the retention ponds were there to catch rain quickly so that flooding could be avoided. Ironically, now that the jet stream had slowed down and areas of Europe and North America were receiving rainfalls of several inches at a time, Florida had exactly the right type of design for subdivisions or housing estates that should be built in the parts of the world that were now receiving heavy rainfall such as the UK. To the east of the house, about two miles away was the St. Johns River, to the west of the house several streets away was Doctor’s Lake. The report warned him that

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