Angels Don't Die (Madeleine Toche Series Book 2) Read Online Free

know you’re a tough son of a bitch, so act like I’m telling you about my golf game.  I doubt they’d follow us here, but the NSA keeps track of what’s going on, especially if it concerns a hot spot like the Middle East,” Smith said, casually looking around to see if any of the patrons seemed out of place.  “Okay, here goes, I won’t say who, but a friend of ours informed me that there was an incident in Jerusalem involving your son.  Tracy's girlfriend, a Mossad agent, was killed by a suicide bomber while they were at a local market.  I was told that Tracy was abducted.  The murder of his girlfriend was just a diversion so that they could easily grab him.  It was a gruesome mess.  When the bomb went off, there were several bystanders hit with shrapnel from the suicide bomber’s explosive vest.  There was nothing Tracy or his girlfriend could have done,” Smith said with a sad shrug of his shoulders.
                  “Who was it, the Russians?” John said.
                  “No, believe it or not, they don't want any trouble there either.  They are waiting in the weeds to see what happens and then take advantage of the situation if it presents itself. But the Israelis, the Egyptians and Syrians look like they're going to have a go at it pretty soon.  Tensions are mounting and all of the countries involved remember what happened in ‘67’ during the Six Day War.  Israel is convinced they won’t be attacked, following the shellacking they gave their neighbors during that conflict.  But we’re not so sure.  The Egyptians and Syrians harbor a great deal of resentment towards Israel and want the territories back that Israel now occupies.  In reality, they want more than that.  The Arabs want the Jews pushed back into the sea.”
    “Good luck. The Israelis aren’t likely to do that voluntarily.  Their mandate is to push their enemies out of Israeli territory and fight on foreign soil.  Not only that, the Israeli people consider themselves to be front line soldiers.  Two years of compulsory military training sees to that,” John said, taking a bite of his burger.
    “All I know is that our projections lean towards lots of dead soldiers on either side.  Israel's General Sharon is one tough bastard; he was there from the beginning, the 1948 War of Independence, along with some rather unsavory characters left over from World War II.  Sharon's always in the thick of it and you know he'll be there this time,” Smith said.
                  “What about Tracy,” John said steeling himself for the worst.
                  “We think they’ll keep him alive for now.  The likelihood is that the PLO has him and it is in their best interests to keep him alive as a bargaining chip, if things don't go well for the Arab coalition.  The word from above is that the United States has to be seen as neutral, regardless of our demonstrated support of Israel.  In short, we can’t help them start a war.  The Russians are going to take the same approach.  The area is too strategically vital to choose sides.  We'll do what we can, but if they shut off our oil, that could be disastrous. The problem is if we acknowledge that we have an NSA agent on the ground there, they will assume there are more.  The PLO might not even know who or what they've got.  They’re still pretty disorganized, but they're smart enough to understand what can be accomplished without bloodshed if they use some strategy,” Smith answered.
                  “Of course nobody was crazy enough to grab any Russians, and even the score, were they?”               
    “No, the Russians and Israelis don't really tolerate one another.  The unwritten alignment is the US and Israel and the Soviets and the Arabs.  The PLO must just be following what the Syrians are telling them, in the hope that their homeland will be liberated when the war is