Holy Island Trilogy 03 - The Final Countdown by Sheila Quigley Page B
Authors: Sheila Quigley
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and said, ‘Oh. One of them. I think you better go to sleep, son. Don’t worry, I’ll keep me eye out for the frenemy.’
‘Will you?’
‘Oh, aye.’
Danny heaved a sigh of relief. At long last, a friend.
As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was fast asleep, to dreams of them. Whichever way he turned, they were there.
He did not hear the old man nearly choke with laughing.
NORWICH
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
‘So tell me,’ Agent Josh Millar said to Tony Driver, ’what the fuck do the elite bastards want us to do for them now?’
Millar was tall, dark-skinned and handsome, and he knew it. He had a fancy for black suits and crisp white shirts. Vain though he was, he was a good man. Tonight he had been on the door and, feet apart with his hands behind his back, he had watched as, the meeting finally over, most of the families were either wandering into the bar to continue whatever petty grievances they had, or storming up the stairs to bed.
He’d been recruited into the agency seven years ago by Tony, and spent the first six months in permanent shock as things were slowly revealed to him. Five weeks ago, he’d found the agency within the agency, and thank God for that. He didn’t know that Tony had been watching him for years, and had told him about the inner agency just before he reached melting point. It was what had saved his life.
Tony knew a good man when he saw one. He had also decided it was time that Josh was brought fully into the loop. They needed all the good men fully on board. Unknown to Josh though, that was the real reason for this conversation.
‘Shall we have a stroll round the garden?’ Without waiting for Josh to say yes or no, Tony headed towards the French doors. Knowing an order when he got one, Josh followed him and stood discreetly by when Tony spoke to a few family members on the way.
‘Basically, what it boils down to is...’ Tony shrugged. They reached the rose garden. ’As you heard in there…cutting the world population down. They’ve actually bought into their own hype about global warming.’
‘But they started the rumour themselves.’
‘Yep just one of their many ploys, that wasn’t really thought out back then. Something for them to fall back on, and boy, have they fallen back on it big time.’
‘Haven’t the people suffered enough? Generations of secret family rule, and what do we have? Starving people and kids living in squalor all over the world, mostly in countries that have their own wealth but are ruled by a family member. Surely it would have been easier to stop all this centuries ago.’
‘Think about it Josh. Realise just how easy it was to not stop it. Countries were separated from each other for a long, long time. Your ordinary man in the street didn’t know what was going on half a mile away, never mind across the world.’
Josh nodded. ‘I suppose.’
‘They had plenty of time to dig their feet in and carve their ways on the rest of us. What do you think was the real reason behind the Roman push around the world? The families were behind it - that, and just about every invasion since. And a few before then. Ordinary people, or 'peasants', as they like to call them...us...have no desires on anyone’s property in the next county, never mind country. Why would they? Too busy feeding their own flaming family. But they are, and always have been, made to go to war, time and time again. All in the name of greed and power. Think how much the arms dealers make, all of them family owned. And there are wars going on in corners of the world most of the people haven’t even heard of. Think about the pharmaceutical companies, inventing drug after drug, one to make you better from some unknown disease and yet another to make you better from the first drug. Again, all family owned, and on and on. As well as the street drugs, let's not forget them, mostly spin offs from the pharmaceutical companies.’
Josh blinked. This was a long speech from Tony, but as
‘Will you?’
‘Oh, aye.’
Danny heaved a sigh of relief. At long last, a friend.
As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was fast asleep, to dreams of them. Whichever way he turned, they were there.
He did not hear the old man nearly choke with laughing.
NORWICH
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
‘So tell me,’ Agent Josh Millar said to Tony Driver, ’what the fuck do the elite bastards want us to do for them now?’
Millar was tall, dark-skinned and handsome, and he knew it. He had a fancy for black suits and crisp white shirts. Vain though he was, he was a good man. Tonight he had been on the door and, feet apart with his hands behind his back, he had watched as, the meeting finally over, most of the families were either wandering into the bar to continue whatever petty grievances they had, or storming up the stairs to bed.
He’d been recruited into the agency seven years ago by Tony, and spent the first six months in permanent shock as things were slowly revealed to him. Five weeks ago, he’d found the agency within the agency, and thank God for that. He didn’t know that Tony had been watching him for years, and had told him about the inner agency just before he reached melting point. It was what had saved his life.
Tony knew a good man when he saw one. He had also decided it was time that Josh was brought fully into the loop. They needed all the good men fully on board. Unknown to Josh though, that was the real reason for this conversation.
‘Shall we have a stroll round the garden?’ Without waiting for Josh to say yes or no, Tony headed towards the French doors. Knowing an order when he got one, Josh followed him and stood discreetly by when Tony spoke to a few family members on the way.
‘Basically, what it boils down to is...’ Tony shrugged. They reached the rose garden. ’As you heard in there…cutting the world population down. They’ve actually bought into their own hype about global warming.’
‘But they started the rumour themselves.’
‘Yep just one of their many ploys, that wasn’t really thought out back then. Something for them to fall back on, and boy, have they fallen back on it big time.’
‘Haven’t the people suffered enough? Generations of secret family rule, and what do we have? Starving people and kids living in squalor all over the world, mostly in countries that have their own wealth but are ruled by a family member. Surely it would have been easier to stop all this centuries ago.’
‘Think about it Josh. Realise just how easy it was to not stop it. Countries were separated from each other for a long, long time. Your ordinary man in the street didn’t know what was going on half a mile away, never mind across the world.’
Josh nodded. ‘I suppose.’
‘They had plenty of time to dig their feet in and carve their ways on the rest of us. What do you think was the real reason behind the Roman push around the world? The families were behind it - that, and just about every invasion since. And a few before then. Ordinary people, or 'peasants', as they like to call them...us...have no desires on anyone’s property in the next county, never mind country. Why would they? Too busy feeding their own flaming family. But they are, and always have been, made to go to war, time and time again. All in the name of greed and power. Think how much the arms dealers make, all of them family owned. And there are wars going on in corners of the world most of the people haven’t even heard of. Think about the pharmaceutical companies, inventing drug after drug, one to make you better from some unknown disease and yet another to make you better from the first drug. Again, all family owned, and on and on. As well as the street drugs, let's not forget them, mostly spin offs from the pharmaceutical companies.’
Josh blinked. This was a long speech from Tony, but as
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