This is my latest book I'm working on I've uploaded the introduction and a couple of pages from Chapter one.
Hope you enjoy it , any comments welcome.
Hope you enjoy it , any comments welcome.
WHAT IF…
A novel by Stephen Atkinson
INTRODUCTION
What if….Is a novel of fiction about intrigue, espionage and
the Deep South influenced and financed by a foreign enemy.
FBI agent Sarah Sampson is given her first assignment by way
of a Frankfort police report submitted by a southern house wife Jennifer Blake.
Sarah a newbie at the Virginia office of the FBI Richmond reads the report with
a tale so outrageous and beyond belief. Sarah has skepticism but soon learns
that Jennifer’s story could hold credibility. Sarah keeps an open mind but has
to battle the male domination of her superiors within the ranks of her own
agency.
As the plot thickens Sarah realizes she has not only made
herself a target within the FBI but also with members of the CIA and the
current administration serving a country on the brink of war…with itself.
She soon comes to realize that she serves a President out of
touch with reality, a nation in turmoil and a plot that could plunge the United
States into a second civil war. Sarah has a choice to make…go with the flow and
watch her country falter or try to avert a disaster that would lead to the
deaths of everyone she knows and loves.
Friends and colleagues she thought she knew test her resolve
as she investigates the upcoming events assisted by a Detective James Cameron
the only person who has faith and believes Jennifer’s story. The two are united
in one common goal to bring down the administration and uncover a plot so anus
and hard to believe.
Hunted down by operatives of the CIA under the President’s
orders and sympathetic White supremacist Sarah and James have to survive and
get the truth out to the American people. Only a true patriot with strength and
resolve can succeed, Sarah has the resolve but does she have the strength?
FIRST ASSIGNMENT
CHAPTER ONE
Sarah a bright Harvard grad is a spontaneous petite young
woman of 24 with curly mousy hair to her shoulders and bright blue eyes. Her
colleagues look at her 5.6 frame and laugh behind her back whispering wise
cracks of how she ever became an FBI agent. Sarah’s hearing has always been
keen but she shrugs off such chauvinistic remarks and doesn’t let on she hears
them no matter how degrading. She has been in the FBI only a few months, her
daily routine seems to be no ending of paperwork flying across her desk from
agents in the field.
“So bored” She mutters to herself as she takes her reading
glasses off and leans back in her chair as another pile of papers promptly land
on her desk from Gene another newbie as he walks by.
Sarah looks up at Gene a 5.10 man of thin build with thick
black hair grinning down at her with a warm smile.
“Sorry Sarah I would have taken them but the boss said to
hand them to you” Gene said.
“It’s OK Gene the price of being a newbie I guess” Sarah
winks at Gene as he becomes flustered then walks away leaving Sarah giggling to
herself, she went through the program with Gene and graduated with him from Quantico
although she always had a knack of making Gene turn crimson.
Sarah looked at the stack of papers that had just landed on
her desk then looked at the stack of papers in front of her as she sighed with
dread. “Another boring day ahead of me, wish I could get a field assignment, if
I wanted to shuffle paperwork I would have become a librarian” She muttered in
frustration as she began to type on her keyboard the characters flashing across
her computer screen.
“I remember my first time when I first joined the agency, it
gets better trust me” A voice came from above as Sarah looked up from her
screen to see special agent Linda Garcia leaning on the partition between their
booths.
Linda a plump 38 year old with short red curly hair was smiling down at
her. “Been there done that” She said. “But you gotta ignore the bullshit honey,
male testosterone in this place is high and a lot of hot air goes with it” She
added.
“What’s that special agent Garcia?” Tom Stevens the
supervising special agent a man of 52 with graying hair silver rimmed
spectacles wearing a light gray suit and tie turned around as he was passing in
the blue carpeted corridor between the booths.
“You know what I’m talking about Tom; newbies get the shit
end of the stick for their first few months on the job but the female agents
get the bull shit of your testosterone on top for good measure” Linda replied
smirking.
Tom thought for a moment then looked at Sarah. “You want an
assignment agent Sampson?” He asked with a grin.
“YYESS SIR” Sarah cried out her eyes widened with
excitement.
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