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Seeking the Sun God
In 1532 Francisco Pizarro the leader of the Spanish Conquistadors arrived by sea in the land of the Inca’s with a small army to subjugate the region and send what riches he found there back to Spain. Pizarro and his two brothers were fearsome warriors and his first act was to capture the Inca Emperor Atahuallpa and demand a ransom of twenty four tons of gold. The ransom was paid, but Pizarro strangled the Emperor anyway. The most prized and revered object the Inca’s had was a solid gold statue of Inti the Sun god seen by the Inca people as the giver and supporter of all life.
It had to be protected from the Spanish looters and so twenty young men and two High Priests from the temple in Cuzco spirited away the one ton solid gold statue to a place of safety later one of the surviving High Priest’s left a series of clues and it is here almost five hundred years later that our story begins.
Call for Duty
In ‘The Call for Duty’ we follow the adventures of an MI6 agent in Afghanistan, the Ukraine and a number of Middle East countries where a life is cheap and often rather short. The agent is Mark Taylor a former Royal Marine who for a good deal of the time is tactically embedded with a Universal News team which is partly a front for a CIA operation.
Death and destruction are their companions as they follow the instructions of their Governments in reporting the result of their policies in these areas of conflict. Despite having a healthy contempt for all politicians the agent’s loyalty to their country is never in question nor is their sense of duty, Read on. . . .
The Guardians
In The Guardian’s we follow the reactions of the British Government to the attacks in Paris on the offices of the magazine Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish supermarket. Their concern of course is of repeat attacks in Great Britain and in particular on the vulnerable Junior Government Ministers who do not have police protection. With each Government department anxious not to increase it’s spending providing extra protection would be costly.
It is decided to recruit recently retired members of the armed forces mainly with the rank of Sergeant and with active front line experience in Afghanistan. Fifty would be initially required with a reserve off another fifty all placed on a twelve month contract that could be extended.