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    Sub Rosa
    Sub Rosa
    Sub Rosa
    Ebook43 pages40 minutes

    Sub Rosa

    By Alex Wilson

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    Genius put to evil intent. A tale of larceny and revenge born of war and reprisal that sweeps over four countries on three continents. A form of terrorism threatens national security. All unraveled on San Francisco Bay due to a chance encounter at an amateur soccer game.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlex Wilson
    Release dateApr 26, 2010
    ISBN9781452356310
    Sub Rosa
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    Alex Wilson

    At 72, Alex's wife said 'Why not try writing?' Within 4 months he had six novellas on Smashwords and now, a couple of years later, 18. Obviously there was stuff lurking in there waiting to be said. Alex's wife is also his muse and editor, and a good one. They live in St. Petersburg, FL where there is a surprising amount of writerly activity.

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      Book preview

      Sub Rosa - Alex Wilson

      Sub Rosa

      A novella by Alex Wilson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Alex Wilson

      Discover other titles by Alex Wilson at www.smashwords.com/profile/view/alex3

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      Sub Rosa a novella by Alex Wilson

      1995, Zagreb, Serbia:

      Radovan Milos sits smoking his pipe and scheming in the book-upholstered study of his well worn apartment in the ‘academic quarter’. His gaze through the window is toward the familiar rooftops and distant onion dome steeples but his focus is only on decisions and actions that must be made.

      Zagreb is the capital of a defeated, war torn country. Serbia is in shambles, defeated. Bitterness abounds. Croats and Muslims being protected. Serbian patriots being accused of war crimes. The US is behind it all. Al Qaeda has the right idea. The USA must be brought to its knees. All this bombing and destruction of our beloved Serbian homeland was supposed to be a NATO operation by the united Europe. Do they think they are talking to children? What NATO force? Unless you’re on the moon, it should be abundantly clear that we have an American Air Force and American Army operating under a NATO flag. Europe provides weak support but it is the USA that has interfered with the cleansing of our country and has killed honorable Serbian citizens. Do they think they can do these things without consequences, without retribution? Americans are ignorant. No sense of history. Few speak other languages or know the roots of old tensions, scores not yet settled.

      When an American bomb killed my sister and her family, I made a sacred oath to avenge that atrocity. I will figure this out. America is fat and soft and lazy and greedy and impatient and short sighted. Obsessed with quarterly profits, the new TV season, the latest fashions and automobile designs. What frivolous fools! They are vulnerable and I will find a way to put sand in their arrogant, bloated gears.

      But first, I must get my family away from the dangers and hopelessness and get myself away from the war crimes witch hunt. Serbia has been gutted, running on EU rules, our noble patriots in The Hague being tried by that kangaroo court. I am aware that they seek bloody revenge on me for having given ‘justice’ to those Croats and Muslims my squad and I rounded up. But, how to get out?

      Radovan did figure it out. He devised a plan. The Plan was not, after all, the output of a second tier mind. Despite the randy provenance of generations of grifters, smugglers and gypsies, he was brilliant. His parents wanted more for their son than loan sharking and extortion. Recognizing his amazing intelligence, they gave him every education opportunity they could afford and even some they could not. Radovan excelled at each successive level and was eventually provided a professorship at University of Zagreb. Besides his wide-ranging reading of history, the sciences, mathematics and philosophy, he managed to absorb the tradecraft of his criminal family. He knew both sides.

      It was not for nothing that his forebears achieved prominence in ‘the trades’ of smuggling, extortion, kidnapping and assassination. He reverted to the ‘family business’. It did not take long to find people of substance with scores to settle in those confused times. The old infrastructure had been shredded

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