INFLIGHT - Book #2

About the Book Series, INFLIGHTBook #2Ex-CIA Jon Bradley 3-Series Thriller INFLIGHT, Book #2, continues with the action-oriented plot of dangerous and intriguing, multi-dimensional characters, revolving around a family sharing a terrorist bloodline, including their agenda of personal vendetta. Ex-CIA operative, Jon Bradley, is swept into investigating the sudden, brutal homicide of his mentor and friend, Eugene Lewek, the former Vietnam, CIA agent, suspected of being the local Mossad's Sayan asset, which leads him to question Joanne Ross, one of Lewek's last contacts. The latter, abandoned and abused as a child, grows up to be a narcissist psychopath, who is obsessed with discovering the identity and whereabouts of her elusive parents, both of whom have a shady past. Enters the scene, Khaleed al Abbasi, alias Pierre al-Khoury, the spurned son of the fugitive Hezbollah's mastermind, set forth on his agenda of family revenge. On the personal front, Jon Bradley assists the NYPD Sex Crime Division in the investigation and the arrest of the NBA celebrity, James Wainsford, the alleged rapist of his lady friend, Samantha Clarke, an attorney in the D.
A.'s office. On the last day before exiting his FBI's Counterterrorism posting after being re-assigned to the CIA's Middle-East Division, Jonathan Bradley is drawn into a hostage crisis created by the homegrown terrorist cell led by Youssef Hariri, who is determined to avenge his father's death at the hands of the Mossad. Mohammed al Abbasi, in reality, Imad Darwish, a former powerful Lebanese Christian politician, and businessman, known by his infamous name of "Surq" - the Falcon, is presently active, moving from Iran to far-off African regions of Sudan-Uganda-Kenya-Somalia, inciting the tribes to sectarian infighting and revolts against the governments, facilitated by his illegal weapons and drugs trafficking. Jonathan resolves his true identity and plans to hunt down the mastermind.
This, in turn, leads him to investigate the disappearance of the femme fatale MI6 field agent, Claire O'Neal - Jon's one-time lover - during his last operation, Mermaid, in Beirut, Lebanon. To summarize, the 3-part series of the Terror Bloodline abounds with terror-cell plots, personal conflicts, rape, vengeance, pedophilia, betrayals, murders, and illegal arms & drug trafficking, mingled with deceit and dangerous interplay by the FBI, CIA, Mossad, and MI6. Fields of Action: Beirut, Lebanon - New York City - London - Jerusalem.