The Wolves: A John Wells Novel - Softcover

Berenson, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399576916 ISBN 13: 9780399576911

Verlag: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S., 2016

Inhaltsangabe

John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of crosscurrents at work; the White House and the CIA are adding extra complications and other countries are starting to sniff around. It is when Russia and China enter the mix that the whole affair looks set to combust. With alarming speed, Wells is once again on his own?

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Prologue

WASHINGTON, D.C.

The President wanted to see John Wells.

The feeling wasn't mutual.

Wells sat in the emergency room at the Virginia Hospital Center in
Arlington, waiting for a doctor to set the foot he'd broken a day before
on another continent, when his phone buzzed. A blocked number.

"Mr. Wells?"

"If you say so."

"Steve Lipsher at the White House. The President would like to
invite you to a meeting in the Oval Office. Four p.m."

"Shafer gonna be there?" Ellis Shafer, a CIA lifer and Wells's closest
friend. Currently stuck inside a federal jail not five miles from this hospital,
his reward for helping stop a war.

"Just you, the President, and Ms. Green." Donna Green, the National
Security Advisor.

"Then no. I can't."

The silence that followed suggested that no one had ever turned
Lipsher down before.

"Someone will call you," Lipsher finally said, and hung up.

Wells was tempted to turn off the phone. Five minutes later, it
buzzed again. "John. It's Donna Green. Justice is drafting the release
order, but we have to find a judge, and it's Sunday, remember?"

"You locked him up easy enough."

"We'll get it done. Promise."

"What about the senator? He coming, too?" Wells meant Vinny
Duto, the former CIA director, now senator from Pennsylvania. For
the last month, Wells, Shafer, and Duto had secretly worked together
against a billionaire casino mogul named Aaron Duberman who'd tried
to trick the United States into invading Iran. Duberman's plan had
nearly succeeded. Shown false evidence that Iran wanted to smuggle a
nuclear weapon into the United States, the President had set a deadline
for Iran to open its borders or face invasion.

But barely twelve hours before, Wells and Duto had delivered proof
of Duberman's plot to Green, forcing the President to back down. In a
midnight speech from the Oval Office, he called off the attack.

Wells had expected that the President's next move would be to
punish Duberman for what he'd done. Expected and hoped. Green's
tone, simultaneously wary and pleading, suggested otherwise.

"No Duto," Green said now. "And that's not negotiable."

Wells wasn't surprised. Green and the President had forced Duto
out of the CIA two years before. Now Duto had the upper hand. He
could destroy the President simply by revealing the truth about the
way Duberman had suckered the United States. Though Duto had
already hinted to Wells that he had another agenda. As a price for his
silence, he would make the White House help him in the next presidential
election. A straight power play, standard operating procedure
for Duto, whom Wells imagined kept a shrine to Nixon in the basement
of his mansion.

"Fine," Wells said. If Green didn't know that Wells disliked Duto
almost as much as she did, Wells saw no reason to enlighten her. "I'll
see you at six. Give you time to get Ellis out, me to get my foot set."

"You're picking the time for a meeting with the President?"

"Come to an emergency room without hundred-dollar bills taped
to your forehead, see how long it takes them to fix you."

At 5:45 p.m., Wells offered his driver's license to the White House gate
guards and limped toward the West Wing entrance. The worst of the
winter was over. Wells wore only jeans and a bright red T-shirt that
read Chicago Homicide: Our Day Starts When Your Day Ends . Hardly appropriate
for meeting the President. But he couldn't make himself care.

As Wells passed through the metal detectors, he knew he should
feel good. He and Duto and Shafer had kept the United States out of
war. Yet Duberman was still in his fortified mansion in Tel Aviv. Meanwhile,

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Putnam Publishing Group,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0399576916
• ISBN 13: 9780399576911
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 390
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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