| I'll check that one out, thanks.
here's a small excerpt, edited for content.
Jackson looked at the screen- there was a file open in a text editor. The sergeant shoved aside Jödel’s body and let the corpse slump to the floor with a dull thud. He took the late prime minister’s office seat and laid his SOCOM on the table.
It was strange, slightly macabre, to occupy a dead man’s chair, but Paul didn’t dwell on it. The document open on the screen was a memo to a General Amadeus within the Bundeswehr, apparently a key figure in the higher echelons judging from the greetings. Nothing was unusual at face value. Jackson read on.
The first part of the memo contained little useful information- there was a reference to H&K and the Rhineland operation -word gets around fast these days; looks like Jödel’s in cahoots with Heckler and Koch in a big way- and how it would slow down production rates and cause a problem within the current supply demands. There was nothing unusual about this on the surface, just plain, simple facts, but Jackson got the feeling that there was something more, some secret urgency shared between the dead man at his feet and this General Amadeus.
Scrolling down through the document, Jackson found a large map of Russia (Russland, as the map indicated) with locations of Russian areas of interest.
That was unusual. Most of the locations were resource centers in the western Russo-Polish border. He saw the name Sigfried littered throughout the document.
Now, who the hell is this mysterious Sigfried? This is getting weirder by the second. Jackson’s mind drew a blank- Sigfried wasn’t mentioned in any documents he’d read before coming to Munich. However, he was spoken of as an “open negotiator” and “Savior” for the Russians. What was this enigmatic power player doing with Jödel? Could he have had anything to do with the PM’s body laying at the sergeant’s feet?
Foremost in his mind was the disturbing question: Does Sigfried have anything to do with Alexei Petrov?
“Othic,” breathed the sergeant, “Do you remember anything in the briefings about someone named ‘Sigfried’? He’s all over this document.”
“Nothing in the briefings, Jackson. Put it on disk and we can work with it later,” the captain replied after a moment.
Dead end- keep looking. Who the hell is this guy?
Jackson saved the file to a floppy and opened a few more at random. He stopped at another memorandum to Amadeus in case he should find the answer to the new Sigfriend mystery.
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Last edited by deerslayer; January 15th, 2006 at 23:09.
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