Hajj Intercept (eBook)

Ken Peters (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
216 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-6678-6867-7 (ISBN)

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Two Israeli Mossad agents, Saul, and David are inseparable friends from childhood to soldiers in the IDF. Their lives change as one day a Katusha Rocket lands on David's home killing his wife and daughters. Lifelong friends are now changed as one plot's revenge for those who took his family, while the other becomes the hunter of his best friend to save the world from a nuclear catastrophe that will send the East and West into mutually assured destruction.

Dr. Ken Peters is a PhD Int'l Economist, specializing in the Healthcare & Biotechnology area and its impact on worldwide markets & companies. He has been a senior executive for several fortune 500 Healthcare companies for almost 30 years, traveling & living in Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia. His PhD as an International Economist in the Biotechnology field provided critical quantitative analysis on International trade policies in healthcare and Biotech markets. In 1997 he founded World Diagnostics Inc. (NASDAQ), a point of care diagnostic test company. Through strategic partnering, acquisitions, and cross-licensing, World Diagnostics applied technological innovation to establish footholds across markets in 55 countries before being acquired. He has assisted start-ups & existing companies in becoming successful through technological change. He has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, published in various healthcare trade journals, a recipient of Dx Health Care Awards, and noted in 'Who's Who in American Entrepreneurs'. Dr. Peters has been 3X (three times) a guest scholar, at the University of Shanghai, lecturing on International Business and is currently lecturing at the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is a senior consultant to Kinetik Corporation an open API platform health care company transforming the 'non-emergency medical transportation' industry. Dr. Peters is an author of Biotech thriller novels such as 'Off Shore', and his most recent this spring 'The Cure'. His third biotech thriller 'The Hajj Intercept' to be published by the fall of 2022.

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"e;The Hajj Intercept"e;, two Israeli Mossad agents, Saul and David, were inseparable friends from childhood to entering their national service in the IDF to eventually joining the Israeli Intelligence agency, the Mossad. They've hunted terrorists from the Urals to Zimbabwe. Trained against major threats to Israeli national security and beyond to global security. In their newest mission, they are charged with recovering a viral aerosol pathogen that was stolen by Syria from Russia. The original virus, Marberg is more deadly than Ebola. The Russians have converted the Marberg virus to a new variant called the ?-Variant, even more, deadly than Marberg. There is the specter that Syria will use this against the Israelis since their loss of the Golan Heights. now being. Between Russia and Syria, the stakes are high in retrieving this pathogen for that Israeli scientists can formulate a countermeasure. David's life changes one day as a Katusha Rocket lands on his home killing his wife and two daughters. After his initial 7-day Jewish tradition of sitting Shiva (Jewish period of mourning), he is called in a few weeks later for his annual physical only to be told he has pancreatic cancer and to get his affairs in order. Having nothing to live for currently, Saul steals the viral pathogen and sets out on a path of revenge to disperse the deadly aerosol pathogen during the coming Hajj in Mecca. Saul and David, lifelong friends have now changed as one plots revenge for those who took his family, while the other becomes the hunter of his best friend to save the world from a nuclear catastrophe that will send the East and West into mutually assured destruction.

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Chapter 1

Genesis

David and Saul were both sons of Holocaust survivor families who resettled in Israel from Germany after Israel had become a state in 1947. Both families had suffered tremendous loss of life in their respective families at the concentration camps during WWII. Both of them were the offspring of parents who both met at a Kubutz in a city called Rehovot (Hebrew: רְחוֹבוֹת‎). A town in the Central District of Israel, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Tel Aviv, Today, it has a population of approximately 1,435,000 million. Therein David and Saul’s parents met each other. They worked together at the na’an Kibutz, and it was there that these two families built a strong bond of friendship as each their families grew there respectively.

 

The Ganz, Saul’s parents were Myron and Sylva. They had met during their detention at Buchenwald Concentration camp. After the camps were liberated, they were each their sole family survivors of the Holocaust. It wasn’t unusual for only survivors to find that common bond during the first few days of liberation. When the US soldiers liberated Buchenwald, they were both lucky versus those camps liberated by Russian soldiers. The US forces were in disbelief at what they saw. General Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said, “I want all of this recorded on film because some bastard years from now will claim this never happened.” The US command policy was to keep all prisoners in their respective camps for a limited period, a few weeks. Simultaneously, the soldiers used surviving camp prisoners to help identify any Nazis who may have taken allied forces uniforms to darn upon themselves or concentration camp prisoner uniforms to blend into the surviving prisoners. US military policy provided all survivors shelter via tents, food, clothing, and medical treatment during this interim time.

 

Myron and Sylvia met on a food line and began chatting by happenstance. They both learned they had come from the same small village outside of Krakow during this time. While receiving lunch one day on the ration line, Myron stood behind Selma, and she bumped into Myron. He turned and, with a laugh, said, “excuse me, madam, but should this be the last plate, rest assured, as a gentleman, I will give you mine.” They each laughed at how incredible it was as safety was upon them for the first time in four years. Hence, both appreciated the joke with enormity. After receiving their plates, they seemed to gravitate to each other, smiling at the situation and sitting alongside broken benches. Sylvia spoke first, saying, “so where was your family from”?

Myron explained he was from a small village in Poland outside of Krakow called Rzaska. Sylvia exclaimed, “amazing, how can that be”? She continued, “my family was also from Rzaska.” Myron responded, “well, the Nazis seemed to have done some homework to have been polite enough to keep the people from the same towns together”! Sylvia smirked and said,” I doubt they were so concerned, but perhaps that we meet as such is undoubtedly a sign it was Kismet”? Myron replied, “not likely but simple happenstance; however, I am pleased I bumped your arm on the ration line.”. They continued to see where or how it was possible they were both from Rzaska, yet they had not known each other. As they continued, they each knew some of the same families. Sylvia explained her father was a butcher. Myron explained that his father was a leather tanner, so perhaps through their family’s merchant businesses, there was ample reason for each to be familiar with many of the same families from the village. As the banter continued, the discussion naturally being recently liberated to a more somber tone as they asked each other about their respective families. Myron said first, “I’m the sole survivor of my family. I was taken away from my mother and father to Auschwitz as the Nazis deemed them too old to work in the camps. I never saw them again. My brother came with me to Lutsk. We were rounded up by the Nazis and taken to Buchenwald.

 

While Myron’s family were leather tanners, seeing that their respective parents dealt with livestock, a butcher processing meat, and a tanner who processed the skins, it wasn’t a surprise they would be familiar with some of the same families. However, they had never crossed paths as teenagers. After three weeks of the two of them assisting the allied forces in emptying the camp, both Myron and Sylvia developed a strong bond. They discovered each of their family lives was much more religious and observant. Consequently, they found an even strong bond in their view of God’s purpose to have permitted such an atrocity as they experienced. Their bond seemed immediate with the horror they had both lived through. Their love had sprung out of loneliness and their connection from their former home villages. Seeing they came from the same foundations, their affections for each other multiplied within the few weeks of working for the Americans. Their Judaism and faith further deepened their relationship together. Perhaps not quite family, but this seemed as close as a family could feel as sole survivors given their past.

Over the weeks spent together, Sylvia and Myron realized that they both came from deeply religious families. They had discussed the idea of emigration to Israel. Considering that both lost their entire families, God must have indeed meant for them to meet in this way and head for Palestine to build a new life together. While neither of them was ready for commitments, Myron and Sylvia agreed to make their way to Palestine to seek a new life once freed from the camp. It seemed it was God’s will.

 

David’s family, Irving and Selma Catz shared a similar story. They met after the camp’s liberation, but they shared medical duties as Selma was a nurse and Irving was a doctor in their professions. Once the military command identified their previous occupations. Irving and Selma were tasked to work together to screen survivors who were fit to leave from those in critical condition and needed urgent acute treatment at a local hospital. Unlike Myron and Sylvia’s departure after a week, Irving and Selma were there together for more than three weeks until all camp survivors were gone. Different from Myron and Sylvia, Irving and Selma were educated. They had medical degrees, and God had a different definition for them. Yes, they were proud of their Jewish heritage but could not accept that God created Hitler to test the Jews.

Irving was the son of a doctor, and from his early years, he excelled in biology and other sciences while going to school. His father often spoke at the dinner table of the patients he had treated that day. There was a humanity Irving found during these dinners listening to his father. He felt great pride in what his father was doing in helping humankind, people! It was inspiring for Irving. Between his seemingly natural abilities in his study of Biology, it was a natural fit after university to move on to medical school. He had graduated in the early 1930s before the fundamental transformation of Nazi Germany, and he began a practice in Dusseldorf. Selma was the daughter of two educators. Her father was a secondary school chancellor, while her mother was a university professor of philosophy. Selma was raised with an extreme socialist and secular foundation. Her parents were not atheists and did believe life was more than what they could perceive in the world around them however the idea of the almighty God rising above and predetermining all destinies they found difficult to hold to as educated individuals. Irving and Sylvia truly fell into the class agnostics. They believed in a higher sense of life, but they were not enticed to religion per se other than their strong sense of the values that have been handed down through the generations and the history of Jewish thought. They profoundly and sincerely thought education was the solution to a better society, which only bore fruits to enlightened humanity. They understood that lesser educated people were often easily led down a dark path when poverty needed a scapegoat. It was sadly part of human nature but nevertheless ingrained and clearly, they saw this was the path Hitler used to gain the support of the masses in Germany by the mid-30s as he gained momentum.

 

While Selma was at university, her parents suggested she go into nursing as a stable skill, with different societal needs than being an educator offered. Her parents, by 1934, were visibly concerned that Hitler was using Jews as his scapegoat for all of Germany’s economic woes. As well-read and highly educated, Selma’s parents understood that the depravation Germans had been experiencing after their defeat in WWI with the imposed constraints by the Treaty of Versailles, their country was in a controlled vise-grip by the victors of WWI war. The Treaty’s brutality starved the German people of any economic means to revitalize the country during the 1920s. By the 1930s, Adolph Hitler’s calls to blame the Jews had little or no resistance to his speeches making the Jews scapegoats and his delusions that the Germans were the Aryan race that would rule the world. So, as educated persons, Selma’s parents directed her to complete her university studies with a four-year degree in nursing. Selma had certain freedoms and privileges and after graduating in 1936 as a Jew and a nurse, Selma owned a status that made her more valuable to the Third Reich than an ordinary Jewish citizen. She worked at the largest hospital in Marien Hospital in Dusseldorf. She had long reasoned before she had even conceived, she would be in the camps or have met Irving that...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror
• ISBN-10: 1-6678-6867-5 / 1667868675
• ISBN-13: 978-1-6678-6867-7 / 9781667868677