A fair advice

An excerpt of my 23rd book and thriller, a unfinished manuscript in fact. I hope you’ll enjoy it dear colleagues and friends, and Happy New Year.

A Pincer Movement

An excerpt

He made his way through the

East Colonnade as an ordinary visitor in a slow gait, up to the East Garden room; he crossed it and turned right to the library, where he hoped to find one of the house staff. He knew that the presidnet is on leave with his family, and there is just one person that can reach him; who that person is he had no idea, it could be the chief of staff or one of his loyal advisers… It could be that cheeky young man that the president trusts more than anyone else, the one that serves as the deputy national security adviser. The secretary of defense thought and started to regret his exalted idea of doing his duties up to the last moment.

I should have stayed home up to my last day in office. He scolded himself as he entered the library. But to his surprise he saw the White House chief of staff sitting in a corner with a book in his hands.

‘Oh hello Jack I was sure you’re on leave, up to our last day.’ He added with a wry smile. But he stood up and shook the secretary of defense hand.

‘How can I get in touch with the president’

‘You can’t, there’s just one person that communicates with him, it’s... Well do I’ve to tell you who she’s?’ In any case she isn’t in, I’d lunch with her and she’d to hope home, and she won’t be back till tomorrow/ What's your   problem Jack?’

‘I wish to report my last trip to Iraq, and warn the president on the mess that we might encounter after Mosul’s conquest; I believe it should be discussed urgently at the forum of the national security council and the president’s advisers.’

‘The battle on Mosul might last several months or even a year, and you know it better than me Jack, so why bother when we’ve a few more days left till we’re history?’

‘It’s our duty to leave the next administration a well prepared plan of action, to prevent the outbreak of a civil war between the Iraqi government and the Kurdish autonomy.’

‘I’m not familiar with what is going on over there, it’s your domain Jack; but the president doesn’t think that we should help his replacement to run smoothly the country’s business, on the contrary the president is doing whatever he can to hamper the house new resident; to make him fail and establish a basis for an impeachment...’

‘But they’ve the majority in the congress, they won’t impeach him even if he’ll fail drastically.’

‘You’re wrong Jack they hate him not less than we do.’

‘So you recommend me to drop that issue, and leave it to the next administration as it is?’

‘Yes that’s exactly what the president wants.’

‘Even if it will harm critically our country’s interests?’

‘I don’t think it might harm us that much, but when we’ll regain power we’ll repair with ease the very few things, which will need to be repaired.’

‘Okay Dave I’ll take your advice.’ The secretary of defense declared and left his seat.

On coming back to the hotel he met his wife in the lobby.

‘You’re early dearest is everything okay?’

‘Yes honey I’ve settled successfully all I’d to do, and as I’m free we’ll do some sightseeing up to the fifth, and return home to spend Silvester with our kids.’

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