Cyberstrike: DC Cover Title Page Prologue 18 April 2010 Six miles south-west of Tikrit, Iraq 25 April 2010 Iraq Chapter 1 Ten years later Vektor, Koltsovo Naukograd, Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia Chapter 2 Six months ago Lewisham Central, 43 Lewisham High Street, London Chapter 3 Six days ago Above Oxfordshire Chapter 4 Present day Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 5 River Thames, London Chapter 6 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 7 River Thames, London Chapter 8 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 9 River Thames, London Chapter 10 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 11 North of Lambeth Bridge, London Chapter 12 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 13 North of Lambeth Bridge, London Chapter 14 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 15 North of Lambeth Bridge, London Chapter 16 Secret Intelligence Service Headquarters, Vauxhall Cross, London Chapter 17 London Chapter 18 Metropolitan Police Marine Policing Unit, Wapping High Street, London Chapter 19 Heathrow, West London Chapter 20 EDF Data Centre, London Chapter 21 Near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom Chapter 22 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 23 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Chapter 24 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 25 Heathrow Airport, London Chapter 26 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 27 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 28 Tysons, Virginia, United States of America Chapter 29 Tysons, Virginia, United States of America Chapter 30 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 31 J. Edgar Hoover Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 32 Washington D.C. and Damascus, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 33 J. Edgar Hoover Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 34 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 35 J. Edgar Hoover Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 36 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 37 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 38 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 39 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 40 J. Edgar Hoover Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 41 4 July – Independence Day Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 42 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 43 J. Edgar Hoover Building, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 44 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 45 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 46 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 47 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 48 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 49 South Capitol Street Heliport, Washington D.C., and Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 50 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 51 Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 52 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 53 Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 54 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 55 Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 56 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 57 Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 58 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 59 Forest Hill, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 60 Washington D.C., United States of America Chapter 61 Forest Hill, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 62 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 63 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 64 Fort Drum, Jefferson County, New York State, United States of America Chapter 65 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 66 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 67 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 68 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 69 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 70 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 71 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 72 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 73 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 74 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 75 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 76 Fairview, Harford County, Maryland, United States of America Chapter 77 Fort Drum, Jefferson County, New York, United States of America Chapter 78 United States of America Chapter 79 Two months later Southern Iraq Author’s Note SINCGARS Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt and the GAU-8/A Avenger Abū Omar al-Qurashi al-Baghdadi A kunya Vektor, Gosudarstvennyy Nauchnyy Tsentr Virusologii I Biotekhnologii (Vector, Russian State Centre for Research on Virology and Biotechnology) Koltsovo Naukograd, Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia Theory of flight Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing (JSFAW) Hawala Allāhu akbar The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division Task Force Black Anonymous Donald Trump and the US Federal Depository Library website Nanotechnology Panhandler/panhandling Security clearances and SCI – Special Compartmented Intelligence/Information Independence Day and the Declaration of Independence Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar Hijacking or taking over a drone Non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon (NNEMP) Acknowledgements The Ben Morgan Thrillers About the Authors Also by James Barrington and Richard Benham Copyright Cover Table of Contents Start of Content Prologue 18 April 2010 Six miles south-west of Tikrit, Iraq It’s not easy to kill a man who doesn’t exist, but Captain Nick Montana and the Allied soldiers under his command were going to try. The name Abū Omar al-Baghdadi had drifted in and
