The Euro Option
Paul Decker assignments, #5
Reeks: Paul Decker assignments
Jeffry Weiss
- A
- few
- days
- before
- 9/11,
- a
- number
- of
- unidentified
- people
- invested
- heavily
- in
- the
- stocks
- of
- American
- and
- Untied
- Airlines
- and
- Transamerica
- Insurance.
- They
- bought
- "put
- options"
- in
- the
- belief
- that
- the
- stocks
- would
- drop
- in
- price.
- After
- the
- attack,
- those
- men
- made
- 22.7
- million
- dollars.Fast
- forward
- to
- the
- present…A
- brilliant
- economist
- has
- been
- fired
- and
- disgraced
- by
- the
- EU.
- He
- is
- planning
- his
- revenge.
- He
- will
- buy
- "put
- options"
- on
- the
- Euro
- in
- anticipation
- of
- a
- fall
- in
- the
- currency,
- which
- he
- will
- guarantee
- by
- killing
- the
- three
- individuals
- most
- responsible
- for
- holding
- the
- EU
- together.Antagonist
- Willem
- Coetzee
- has
- gathered
- the
- remnants
- of
- the
- Afrikaner
- Resistance
- Movement
- (AWB)
- to
- pull
- off
- four
- of
- the
- greatest
- heists
- in
- modern
- times,
- in
- order
- to
- fund
- his
- operation.American
- Code
- 6
- operative,
- Paul
- Decker,
- and
- the
- beautiful,
- but
- deadly,
- Mossad
- officer,
- Alex
- Stern,
- pick
- up
- the
- sent
- and
- begin
- to
- pursue
- this
- deranged
- man.The
- second
- half
- of
- the
- book
- is
- a
- pursuit
- through
- Europe
- of
- this
- madman
- by
- my
- protagonist,
- Paul
- Decker,
- and
- his
- counterpart,
- the
- beautiful
- Mossad
- agent,
- Alex
- Stern.As
- the
- story
- evolves,
- so
- does
- the
- love
- affair
- between
- Paul
- and
- Alex.Even
- with
- the
- assistance
- of
- Paul's
- brilliant
- East
- European
- hacker,
- Pavlik
- Lasky,
- they
- remain
- one
- step
- behind
- the
- fiend
- as
- he
- slices
- a
- path
- of
- death
- through
- the
- heart
- of
- Europe…a
- chase
- more
- intense
- that
- that
- of
- the
- Jackal
- stalking
- Charles
- De
- Gaulle.The
- book
- presages
- the
- precarious
- nature
- of
- the
- EU
- and
- Euro
- and
- the
- desperate
- efforts
- of
- Germany
- and
- EU
- Banker
- Mario
- Draghi
- to
- preserve
- the
- union.So
- entwined
- is
- the
- EU
- with
- other
- economies
- that
- the
- ripple
- effects
- of
- a
- crash
- would
- reverberate
- across
- the
- entire world
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