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2003: The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has taken place. The hunt for Saddam Hussein and the search for his weapons of mass destruction is underway. Meanwhile in North Korea, a nuclear research scientist wants to defect. The "Org" is tasked to bring her out. .... If possible ....

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	01 janvier 2018
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781506905747
Langue	English

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SUCCUBUS

Anovel by
REGIS P. SHEEHAN
Succubus
Copyright ©2018 Regis P. Sheehan

ISBN 978-1506-905-74-7 EBOOK

February 2018

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 20217, Sarasota, FL 34276-3217
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book publicationmay be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form orby any means ─ electronic, mechanical, photo-copy, recording, or any other ─except brief quotation in reviews, without the prior permission of the authoror publisher.

This is a work of fiction in its entirety.
The opinions and characterizations in this book arethose of the author, and do not necessarily represent official positions of theUnited States Government.
DEDICATION

To the People of North Korea
The True Victims of the Kim Family Regime
Acknowledgments

With special appreciation to

Mitch Price
Special Agent (Retired), United States Secret Service

For his consultation on the issue of North Korean counterfeit Supernotes
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Jessica Rohr, RDH
Registered Dental Hygienist
For her consultation on dental procedural matters
-Also-
For background information on the North Korean prison camps:

Human Rights.gov - Web site

Kang, Chol-Hwan – “The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the NorthKorean Gulag”, Basic Books, 2005

US Congress - Hearing Before the Congressional Executive Commission onChina – 112 th Congress – Second Session – March 5, 2002

For glimpses of life in North Korea:

Demick, Barbara – “Nothing to Envy”, Spiegel and Grau, 2010

French, Paul – North Korea: State of Paranoia”, Zed Books, 2014

Kirkpatrick, Melanie - “Escape from North Korea – The Untold Story ofAsia’s Underground Railroad”, Encounter Books, 2016

Lankov, Andre – “The Real North Korea”, Oxford University Press, 2014

Lee, Jin Seo - “North Korean Political Prison Camps”, Radio Free AsiaKorean Service, 2016

NK News – “Life on the North Korean Borderlands: A Collection of Essaysand Articles by NK News Contributors”, 2015

Sweeney, John – “North Korea Undercover: Inside the World’s Most SecretState”, Pegasus, 2015

Tudor, Daniel, and Pearson, James – “North Korea Confidential”, TuttlePublishing, 2015
-And-
Hood, William - “Mole”, Ballantine Books, 1983
“Like war, spying is a dirty business. Shed of its alleged glory, asoldier’s job is to kill. Peel away the claptrap of espionage and the spy’s jobis to betray trust. The only justification a soldier or spy can have is themoral worth of the cause he represents.”

William Hood, “Mole”, 1983
Contents

ONE: JILIN
TWO: R/35/L
THREE: THE AGREED FRAMEWORK
Four: DUE DILIGENCE
FIVE: ACCOUNTABILITY REVIEW
SIX: THE FM
SEVEN: JICSA
EIGHT: ARGENT SUCCUBUS
NINE: SOTU
TEN: VIALE DELL’ESPERANTO
ELEVEN: CAFFE BAR
TWELVE: TURTLE BAY
THIRTEEN: LA BELLA
FOURTEEN: OFFICE 39
FIFTEEN: NOMENKLATURA
SIXTEEN: SHOCK AND AWE
SEVENTEEN: RYONGSONG
EIGHTEEN: OVERLOOK
NINETEEN: KILO SITE
TWENTY: WAHHABI
TWENTY-ONE: FROZEN DEAD GUY
TWENTY-TWO: LUPANARE
TWENTY-THREE: ETRURIA
TWENTY-FOUR: YODOK
TWENTY-FIVE: SURVEY GROUP
TWENTY-SIX: YONGBYON
TWENTY-SEVEN: CLOSE TARGET RECON
TWENTY-EIGHT: SANT’ANGELO
TWENTY-NINE: PROMETHEUS
THIRTY: LAUNCH
THIRTY-ONE: TUMEN
THIRTY-TWO: CONTACT
THIRTY-THREE: AURORA
THIRTY-FOUR: OPTION CALL
THIRTY-FIVE: OEJANG-DO
THIRTY-SIX: DAGGER
THIRTY-SEVEN: EXERCISING THE OPTION
THIRTY-EIGHT: ITALIAN EXTRACT
THIRTY-NINE: ERBAN
FORTY: OUTFLOW
FORTY-ONE: NAME OF THAT TUNE
FORTY-TWO: RETROSPECT
FORTY-THREE: THE ‘BURGH
POSTSCRIPT
ONE: JILIN

Along the China/North Korean Border
October 16, 2003

October in China could becold. October in far northeastern China, astride the border of North Korea,could be damned cold. And so it was.
Night had just fallen,bringing with it the sharp winds that were just now beginning to whip acrossthe flats. They sailed effortlessly up the slope and into the Westerner’s face.It didn’t help that he had just wedged himself into a break in the lightlysnow-encrusted trees. The position, wet and frigid, was an uncomfortable butrather well chosen vantage point for the job at hand.
Reaching back to hisdaypack, the Westerner withdrew a small, encrypted mil-spec radio. He ensuredit was turned on and was properly tuned. That done, he rested it against thedampened base of a tree. Next xxx out of the daypack came a pair of binoculars,which he gently perched atop a dry patch of ground. Finally came an Infraredpenlight which found its place next to the binoculars.
Preparations done, hepaused briefly to listen for movement – human or animal – in the environment.Agreeably, all was quiet.
The man was commonlyknown to his colleagues and friends, the latter now ever fewer in number, as“Bear”. His Christian name was Michael Paul Medved. He had been in this line of work, in one form or another, for avery long time.
Bearslipped off his gloves and placed them carefully on the ground at eye levelwhere he could quickly find them again. After rubbing his hands together togenerate a bit of heat, he grasped the rubberized binoculars and trained thelenses on the near distance below.
Adark strip of frozen terrain extended away just below his lair. Patiently, hetwisted the focus rings as he adapted his night vision to the view.
Andthere it was.
Beforehim was a very narrow strip of water called the Tumen. Largely unheard of inthe West, it served as the border area of the region encompassing North Korea,China and Russia.
Tothe south of his position in Jilin Province, China, was the better known,though now largely forgotten, stretch of the Yalu River.
TheYalu, or Amnok, was the waterway that was more familiar to Americans – or atleast to those of certain age – thanks to its 1950’s Korean War fame. TheYalu was the geographic boundary most often cited as the demarcation linebetween a police action and a serious land war engagement.
On June 25, 1950, theforces of North Korea crossed the 38 th Parallel that divided theircountry from South Korea, thereby initiating the Korean War. Seoul, the SouthKorean capital, collapsed a few days later. The United Nations quicklydispatched forces, primarily in the form of American troops, to combat theCommunist incursion.
By the autumn of 1950 thewar was not going well for the North Koreans. General Douglas MacArthur hadlanded at Inchon, recaptured Seoul and chased the North Koreans back to theYalu.
In response, 300,000Chinese alleged volunteers swarmed across the Yalu in mass formations. ByNovember of 1950 American and Chinese troops were in direct combat with eachother.
More than one US militaryleader wanted to strike the enemy north of the Yalu, that is to say, in China. Theywere deterred from this action by their political leadership. The latter fearedsuch action would cause the Chinese – and maybe the Soviets as well – to dropthe pretense of volunteer action and result in a full-scale war. Maybe evenWorld War III.
American fighter pilotsin particular were often warned not to go “north of the Yalu”. But go theyfrequently did, and in so doing won air superiority for the UN troops fightingbelow.
Now Bear was north ofthe Yalu. This was not his first time in Asia. His initial visit to the regionwas in the mid-1960’s as a US Army Special Forces soldier and a member of theMACV-SOG recon teams. Although the authorities would never admit to it, he had neverstepped foot into China way back then. At the time, the clandestine mission hadbeen to assist in the insertion of a road watch team into the People’s Republicwho doubled as telephone tappers.
Bear was a good bitheftier now than he had been in his MACV-SOG days. He was pushing sixty in notso many more years. His longish blond hair was thinning and streaming to gray.
Nevertheless, the formercommando turned undercover narc knew he could more than hold his own when thesituation required him to do so. He just hoped that the need would not arisethat night.
Lowering the binoculars,he peeled back the Velcro cover of his tactical watch and briefly studied theluminous dial. He had been in position now for close to an hour. They wererunning late. Verging on being uncomfortably late.
Being off schedule didnot necessarily mean disaster. As he knew, there were a number of reasonsthat...
The noise of a thicklymuffled explosion caught his attention. Off to his right, far to the southalong the river, a yellowish-red fireball flamed briefly above the trees.
Bear keyed the mic on theradio, sending a pre-programmed burst transmission out into the atmosphere.Seconds later he was rewarded with an acknowledging response from histeammates.
Nodding to himself, helifted the binocs back to eye level. “Okay,” he breathed to himself. “And herewe go.”
TWO: R/35/L

Leesburg
Loudoun County, Virginia
October 25, 2002

A three story,whitewashed brick building sat in the pleasant, far outskirts of Leesburg,Virginia. It shamelessly proclaimed itself to be the offices of the KovachGroup Insurance Brokerage. It was a title that was sufficiently dull so as todeter the idly curious. For those who persevered, however, Kovach offeredenough legitimate business activity to accommodate them.
The true nature of theKovach Group’s activities had less to do with reinsurance business coverage andmore to do with the coverage of developments in the foreign news media.
The Kovach Group was whatthe CIA called an “off-site location”. It housed a dozen or so employees whoworked in their comfortable quarters under conditions of a fairly loose coverarrangement. They were part of the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, or theDI.
Erik was one of theanalysts who worked on the second floor of the building. A relative newbie tothe Agency, he was a member of the branch that covered the Western and CentralEuropean open media sources.
It was a Friday and hewas looking forward