Trevelyan #2 Nimrod David S. Jones Copyright © 2020 David S. Jones All rights reserved. The right of David S. Jones to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with Sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author. Any person who commits any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental apart from the obvious historical references. ISBN-989-99416-4-8. email: [email protected] This novel is the sequel to Trevelyan #1 and Halo around the moon. Trevelyan #2 – Nimrod ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Peter Cain and Lena Strang (editing, read-through and critique). iii CONTENTS Foreword i 1 Nimrod Pg 1 2 Into the Lion’s Den Pg 19 3 The Honey Trap Pg 34 4 Deadly Revenge Pg 54 5 Porton Down Pg 64 6 Virus Pg 71 7 Hammerfield House Pg 84 8 Geoffrey Haversham-Tring Pg 96 9 Sniper Pg 103 10 The Attack Pg 107 11 Abduction Pg 112 12 Radicalised Pg 125 13 Prince Charles Pg 130 14 Royal Protection Duty Pg 132 15 The Last Supper Pg 136 16 Snow Leopard Pg 143 References #1,2,3,4 Pg 148 #5 Germany 1941 Pg 157 #6 Doctor Oatley + Da Vinci Papers Pg 166 # 7 Romanian Mafia Pg 173 #8-#14 + Caveat Pg 175 Trevelyan #2 – Nimrod The style which I have chosen to write this novel has two perspectives The reader can choose to follow the main storyline continuously or when they came to a hash tag, go to the back of the book and check out the insert. There are sections from Trevelyan 1 and also some general research. vi Foreword Nick Trevelyan is an extraordinary ex-soldier let loose with a lethal weapon as part of his personal arsenal. After unfairly being forced to #17 resign his commission in the British Army, he sinks into the depths of depression, but picks himself up and goes on to reinvent himself and commit the perfect crime, the proceeds of which make him extremely rich. Hunted, captured, and finally recruited into MI6 by the Home Secretary in a no option deal, the British Government has a deadly recruit in agent Nick Trevelyan, who goes on to fight as only he knows how. He has in his possession valuable documents that are coveted by an Italian super villain Caesar Palestroni. An agent is sent to lure Nick to Italy, where Palestroni plans to acquire the documents and dispose of Nick. Trevelyan #2 Nimrod is the third novel in the Halo Trilogy. Trevelyan #1 and Halo around the Moon are the first and second novels in the series. I am delighted that you have taken possession of a copy of my novel. It is my paramount desire that you will enjoy the story and the underlying message that it conveys. This work can be described as a book based upon facts, into which is woven a fabric of fiction, or alternatively, a work of fiction that is studded with fact. It is for you to decide which is which. As a novelist and modern fiction writer, I am intrigued by the possibilities of parallel worlds. Universes, running alongside or in tandem with our own, sharing the same or comparable characters and locations, but with marginally different and distorted events and consequences, which I assume is the fundamental framework for fiction. The barrier between our world and the world that I have described may be, just a thin veil and the events that I have depicted could easily transcend that veneer and breach the barrier. The what if? (WI?) syndrome. i Trevelyan #2 – Nimrod There can be none of us who haven’t experienced the ‘What if?’ syndrome frequently in our lives. It is a fundamental driving force of the human psyche. It can occur at a moment's notice, hourly, daily, and weekly. One unexpected action that triggers events either marginally or enormously makes deviations from the path through life that we are following. The consequence of these lateral conduits can be positive or negative. It would sometimes feel that we do have the ability to make these choices and bring about the changes. In others it is out of our control, simply fate or destiny: Kismet, one door opens, another closes. In Trevelyan #2 I have altered the series of events, giving Cassandra Richards a 'What if?' event in her life. The seemingly insignificant action that she took in Halo around the Moon was a minor decision that led to cataclysmic consequences which contaminated the global fuel distribution network causing its collapse thereby altering the history of the planet. Trevelyan #2 erases that event, although the disastrous consequence of the virus she was working with still has the potential of causing catastrophic repercussions, unleashing its evils on an alternative trajectory. Looking at the same scenario, but from a different perspective. Life is an unpredictable game of Snakes and Ladders, a capricious demanding, uphill journey in which we struggle to climb the steep ladders of our destiny only to slide back down the slippery snakes of our personal adversities. My profound hope is that by publishing this work it might cause society to take stock of my predictions, take a step back, and take time to stop this lemming-like race to the edge of the abyss. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” Shakespeare. Trevelyan #1 and Halo around the Moon are available in paperback and also eBooks with Amazon and Kindle David S. Jones ii Trevelyan #2 – Nimrod Once Upon a Time iii 1. NIMROD As a new operative in MI6 Intelligence, agent Nick Trevelyan had been assigned to Juliet Section, which consisted of himself and twelve other agents. His first impressions were that his new colleagues were less than obvious 'spooks'. There were four operatives who more or less fitted the bill, i.e. Two women and two men, fit, active, and more than capable of looking after themselves in a tight spot. The others were quite ordinary-looking people who would fit into any situation without drawing attention to themselves, apart from one. Nick couldn’t help but notice that one member of the section was very far indeed from being in the style of James Bond. Orville Skipping was downright scruffy, which was a conservative description. Indeed, Orville was bordering on rancid which was particularly evident towards the end of the week leading Nick to the conclusion that Saturday or Sunday must have been his bath night. This seemed to be inconsequential to the Section, for Orville was a genius. He epitomised the absent-minded professor in every detail, but none of this mattered when he got behind a computer. It was a joy to watch him practically make the computer sing and dance. Orville could hack into a cuckoo clock and make it bark. This man was a rare asset in the modern world of digitalised espionage. He could break codes and hack into anything and everything in seconds. Steve Heligan was a long-term colleague from way back on his and Nick’s initiation into the army at Sandhurst and had gone on to be a lifelong friend. It was he who had orchestrated Nick’s recruitment into the agency. He had carved out for himself an 1 Trevelyan #2 – Nimrod exemplary military career, in later years serving in the renowned SAS #3. Now he had been inducted into MI6 as a bridge between the military and the armed forces. Tommo was an altogether different case. Predominately a nonconformist, but brilliant soldier, he had risen through the ranks to Warrant Officer which for a man of Caribbean ancestry was no mean feat. He was on secondment from the army for his formidable all- round strength and calmness under extreme duress. Sergeant Major Kane was well known for not mincing his words and did not suffer fools. He was held in high respect in his regiment The Grenadier Guards. Juliet Section was led by an Irishman by the name of Edward Fitzpatrick. His role involved liaising with the Home Office and heads of security organizations on a global level, choosing the right agents with the skill set for each particular assignment. Nick estimated that he was in his early sixties, which meant that his service had spanned decades of world conflict, in particular, the final phase of the Cold War period. All of this made his knowledge base remarkable. The overall head of MI6 was Hanna Steel, an elusive character whose office suite was at the top of the SIS Building#1, she was known to all as The Snow Leopard. So, this was Nick's new group of workmates. Steve was based in the same building, but his remit was more at Cabinet-level attending all Cobra meetings. When the really nasty stuff happened, it was Steve who was called for; he dealt with the heavy, grittier details and the SAS teams that he coordinated were regularly in action.