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    Lisa Molin Assassin: The Night Train from Switzerland
    Lisa Molin Assassin: The Night Train from Switzerland
    Lisa Molin Assassin: The Night Train from Switzerland
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    Lisa Molin Assassin: The Night Train from Switzerland

    By Mike Ward

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    Lisa Molin is a freelance Swedish assassin working for the Russian mafia in Europe. When a male assassin can’t do the job the Russian mafia sends in Lisa. Her favorite method of execution is the garrote and she also uses the Japanese jutte which is a foot long bar of solid iron with two hooks on the side that can be used to rip flesh and dislocate joints. She is an expert in taekwondo and has killed many men that way. In Korean “tae” means to strike or break with the foot and “kwon” means to strike or break with the fist and she is an expert at both. She is the last person that more than 120 men have seen before they departed this Earth and usually they departed the planet by extremely violent means.

    Hans Gabriel is a union man. He sits in his office in Hamburg on the late evening of the 26th of December. Very few people work in Germany on that day and even fewer are at work at that hour. Hans is troubled. Tomorrow the devil is coming to town. Not the real devil but an asset stripper called Klaus Ballack who works for a huge Anglo-American cost cutting consortium. Tomorrow there will be a battle which Hans will lose and when he loses that battle the men and women at the factory will be forced to take pay cuts of twenty per cent. Hans does not want the union to lose the battle so he has gone out on a limb. Four days ago he took a briefcase full of Euros and went to see the head of the Russian mafia in Hamburg. A deal was made, the only deal that can save the livelihoods of his union members. The company negotiator Klaus Ballack is coming in on the night train from Switzerland. Also on the night train from Switzerland is one of the Russian mafia’s top assassins in Europe. There is no guarantee of success but Hans sits at his desk and prays for the right result.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ward
    Release dateApr 17, 2016
    ISBN9781310853210
    Lisa Molin Assassin: The Night Train from Switzerland
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    Mike Ward

    Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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      Lisa Molin Assassin - Mike Ward

      Lisa Molin Assassin - The Night Train from Switzerland

      by Mike Ward

      (Author of The Banker With a Face Full of Evil)

      Cover photo taken in the North Carolina Mountains by Mike Ward

      Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

      Published by Mike Ward at Smashwords

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      Lisa Molin Assassin - The Night Train from Switzerland

      Excerpt from Lisa Molin Assassin – One Hell of an Execution in Tallin in Estonia

      About Mike Ward

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      Excerpt from The Banker With a Face Full of Evil

      Lisa Molin Assassin - The Night Train from Switzerland

      Klaus Ballack walked into the Brasserie Federal which was one of the cafés in the Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Zürich Hauptbahnhof was the name in Swiss German for the railroad station in Zürich. It was damned cold outside and he was glad to be in heated air of the café. He was early but the weather was atrocious. It was the 26th of December and after spending Christmas Day with friends he was heading to a meeting. He was in a good mood and he wondered how long that would last. The next day he was due to go head to head with a union in Germany. If the union would not agree to pay cuts then he was there to tell them that their jobs would be transferred to the Czech Republic. One advantage of the end of communism was that it had freed up a pool of highly trained and poorly paid labor and he had taken full advantage of that. His specialty was not so much in transferring the jobs, that would be done if it had to be done, but in persuading people that their jobs might be transferred. He had worked a lot in America and Britain where he had learnt his craft. His target tomorrow was to reduce the overall pay of ten thousand people by twenty per cent and when he did that there would be a nice fat bonus for him.

      Klaus Ballack cared little for the fact that the next day he was going to ruin the lives of many hard working men and women in Germany, men and women who had given their lives for the company. The company, Weizsaecker GmbH, had fallen on hard times and had been taken over by a British and American cost cutting consortium. Thus far companies like that had been held at bay in Germany because they could trash whole economies but now they were beginning to move in. Klaus Ballack knew that he would win the negotiations and force the union to concede. He had done this many times before and he was extremely experienced. They had also managed to bribe one of the men in the union negotiating team so they knew the union’s strategy. The man would be well rewarded for selling out his comrades. That was the new way of the world, reward the few and shaft the many and tomorrow the ones being shafted would be the ordinary employees. There was one man on the union team who could be a problem and if that happened then Ballack was going to have the man badly beaten up to teach him a lesson. A waitress came up to him and Ballack ordered a drink and a meal. Although Ballack was from Germany it was hard for a German to understand Swiss German as it was a very unusual dialect and he ended up speaking to the waitress in English. While he waited for his meal the station café started to get busy.

      Lisa Molin was freezing. She had waited outside while the station café began to fill up. She opened the door and walked into the Brasserie Federal. Most of the tables were taken and she walked up to the table where the man in his forties was seated. Would it be okay if I shared your table? she said in German.

      Klaus Ballack looked up from the report he was looking at. The woman standing in front of him had missed the free table over in the corner. If he told her that she would head over there and the chance to converse with her would be lost. There was an air of vulnerability about her and Ballack liked women who were vulnerable. Please sit down, he said.

      She ordered food and they talked. She had spent Christmas alone and was headed into Germany to see her sister and her family. There was no husband and no boyfriend, Klaus Ballack established that fairly quickly. He also established that she had money problems, she didn’t say it directly but Ballack was good with subtle probing questions and he quickly pulled the information out of her.

      Lisa Molin stared at the man in front of her. She was playing him like a fiddle but this had to be handled carefully. He was obviously a control freak and he needed to feel in control. He also needed to feel that he could offer her money to stay in his cabin. It was too early for that yet. The good thing was that he was attracted to her. This one was going to be difficult, she had a file on him and he was a fairly complex character and also a fairly nasty character. She smiled at something he said and then she made him laugh. She had to be careful not to appear too intelligent, men like him did not like intelligent women. She asked him about his job and he really warmed up to that. She was not here to judge, she was here to kill but this man sounded like a parasite who sucked the blood out of good people. Unfortunately there were far too many people like that in the modern world.

      She had read Indian philosophy and she was particularly interested in the concept that mankind was in the age of the Kali Yuga where mankind became corrupt and was ruled by leaders who cared little for the people. That certainly seemed to be true in the West, she didn’t know about the East. Klaus told her about

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