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    For the Queen and England
    For the Queen and England
    For the Queen and England
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    For the Queen and England

    By Lon Maisttison

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    This story is about a terrorist group attempting to detonate an Atomic Bomb in London. Air Rescue uses its very sophisticated monitoring equipment to help British Intelligence locate and stop the terrorist group from detonating the bomb. The theme of the book is clandestine / covert ops.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLon Maisttison
    Release dateJan 7, 2019
    ISBN9780463887745
    For the Queen and England
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    Lon Maisttison

    Lon Maisttison is a retired Southern Indiana boy who enjoyed a 43-year career in Electronics Engineering with 20 years spent in England working on Government contracts.It was during his last assignment in England (1993 to 2003),that the idea for Air Rescue Stories was conceived from day-dreams formulated in the imaginative mind of author Lon Maisttison. The author visualized these day-dream stories based against real life events happening throughout the world and injecting his own 20th century Ninja action hero. A Ninja that was not based on Western Movie type of fighters, but the original fifteenth century Japanese stealth warrior, who specialized in covert assassinations for a paid fee for services. These fifteenth century Ninja’s utilized stealth; the art of being undetected, invisible to their target, which became the basis for the Air Rescue Stories.This theme created the action hero Jimmy West – The Stealth Warrior. An action hero who is paid a million dollars a mission to infiltrate a location, knocks off all the guards with a blowgun and tranquilizer darts, secure the kidnapped person and leave silently.During the late 1990‘s, the author started compiling stores on his home computer into a written outline format about the visualized day-dream stories of that day. For years the day-dreamed stories remained dormant on his home computer until 2003 when the author came back to the United States and contracted a virus that attacked his heart that developed into congestive heart failure (CHF). During that year of recovery from a heart function of 10%, the author started researching the Mediterranean Diet to survive CHF. This research work lead to the book titled: “The Kissed of Death – Congestive Heart Failure.” So, the author made himself a promise to continue writing about CHF and in addition, started a new hobby, writing books about Air Rescue. This lead to the first book titled: “The Two Sisters of Kuwait,” written from stories developed in England.Since 2003, new day-dreamed stories began about Air Rescue with the creation of Global Rescuer, a helicopter support ship, which used hologram displays to disguise its identity i.e. stealth. In addition, four robot based fast attack gunships was created, which use voice commands, supercomputers to fly the gunship. Later, Skyspy and Gunrunner was created, both are robot aircraft. The ship/gunship creation opened an endless avenue of new stories based on Strike Force Rescues i.e. attack gunships and rescue helicopters.For the past seventeen years, these simple ideas and dreams have created fourteen books composed of one short story, six novelettes, three novellas, four novels and four novel versions of “Kissed by Death.”

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      For the Queen and England - Lon Maisttison

      Preface: The Suitcase Atomic Bomb

      During the Cold War Years from 1947 – 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union manufactured several types of small-scale atomic bombs.

      The United States manufactured two types of small-scale atomic bombs. The first one was the W54, known as the Davy Crocket, an atomic shell for the 120-mm recoilless rifle. The second one was the backpack version known as the (MK-54) which was 11 inches by 16 inches and weighed 51 pounds with an explosive capability of between 10 to 20 tons of TNT or around 0.19 kilotons. This device was a linear implosion type or the fission method using either U-235 or PU-239, surrounded by high explosive material that compresses the mass to reach critical.

      The Soviet Union manufactured the RA-115 small atomic bombs, known as the suitcase nukes for the KGB and sleeper agents. Each bomb was 24 by 16 by 8 inches and weighed 50 to 60 pounds with an explosive capability of 1 kiloton. This device used the Gun Method with one piece of fissile uranium being fired down a gun barrel to another uranium target to achieve critical mass.

      Currently, the Russian Government says NO suitcase nukes were ever manufactured. But Russian Scientists who made the bombs, said 132 suitcase atomic bombs were manufactured and currently 82 bombs are unaccounted for or have disappeared.

      During my research into suitcase atomic bombs, several articles appeared to indicate that various terrorist related countries have tried to purchase or did purchase suitcase nukes. In addition, several articles allege that Usama Bin Laden tried to purchase a suitcase nuke by paying 2 million British Pounds in one case and another, through the Chechnya Organized Crime Group, where he supposedly paid 30 million in cash for 20 suitcase nukes.

      I have been interested in small atomic bombs for years and authored a published eBook titled: Flight of the Gunships, several years ago. The story was based on a terrorist group coming to the United States with three homemade atomic bombs. Yet, again, the small atomic bomb has appeared again in this book titled: For the Queen and England.

      Enjoy reading… Lon Maisttison

      *****

      For the Queen and England

      It all began on an August summer afternoon when a British Navy ship pulled alongside a yacht in the British Channel to investigate why it had just attempted to dock along the Thames without proper paperwork. "Prepare to be boarded," yells the Navy seaman to the ship's captain standing on the flying bridge.

      The captain just smiled and disappeared out of sight on the yacht's flying bridge… Then Boom as the small atomic bomb explodes. The yacht and the Navy ship vaporized in seconds from the million-degree hot fireball from a one kiloton atomic explosion, instantly killing everyone on both ships. A mushroom cloud raised 10,000 feet over the area where the two ships were previously located, and a shock wave spread in all directions away from the explosion. Twenty-five miles away in London, the mushroom cloud could be visually seen in the distance. At the speed of sound, the shock wave reached areas of the East End of London in seconds via the open water of the Thames. Buildings swayed from the shock wave, breaking windows, and caused major damage. People on the streets were knocked down and some injured from breaking glass falling from the buildings.

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      To say the least, the British Government went crazy about the atomic explosion, that close to England. It brought home the realization that a terrorist group wanted to attack England and kill a hundred thousand people. This thought drove the British into a full state of emergency. They activated the military to guard all shipping ports, airports, and ferry craft services entering Britain and began searching every yacht nationwide for atomic bombs.

      During the state of emergency, the BBC started receiving secret phone messages from the terrorist group, including a film in the mail, showing a second atomic explosion. Secretly, the BBC contacted British intelligence, especially since; the terrorist group indicated a possible second atomic bomb attack on London.

      The phone messages the BBC were receiving interested British Intelligence the most, because it enabled them to trace the calls to an area of Southern France. But the calls were being alt-routed through a phone switching center to disguise the true location of the sender which wasn’t Southern France. In the end, British Intelligence was able to trace the alt-routes through cell phone routing codes in the cell phone caller ID to a phone tower around Tripoli, Libya. This enabled them to triangulate the calls to local cell phone towers to determine where the cell phone was located i.e. their terrorist base. Based on this information, British Intelligence sent one of their agents to investigate the Mediterranean villa near Tripoli.

      The villa sets along the rocky cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean, just off the coast of Tripoli, Libya. It’s a two story, sand color property with white trim all around the building which includes eight-foot-tall windows. The second floor has a balcony / terrace with iron balustrade around the villa. The front yard is a stone patio, with a walkway down the rocky walls to the Mediterranean. The back of the house has a landscaped garden with bushes, large green trees hanging over the back of the villa.

      It was early in the week when Agent John Morrison arrived in Tripoli. He spent a considerable amount of time going around all the hotel bars near the villa, asking if anyone new the owner of the property. It was at the Hotel Tripoli that the barman new the owner and told John that he comes in on Friday night to play blackjack in the Casino. So, that Friday night, John was in the Casino setting at the Bar waiting for the owner to arrive. John had tipped the barman to identify the owner when he arrived. It was around 8:00 PM when the owner of the villa arrived, and the barman identified him sitting at the blackjack table. John made sure he went around all the other tables before he sat down at the owners’ blackjack table as he didn't want to look suspicious. John got lucky that night and won quite a few hands of blackjack, enough that he got the attention of the owner and they struck up a conversation. They

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