The Euro Option

Fact:A few days before 9/11, a number of unidentified people invested heavily in the stocks of American and Untied Airlines and Transamerica Insurance. They bought "put options" in the belief that the stocks would drop in price. After the attack, those individuals made $22.7 million dollars. No one was ever investigated or brought to justice.Fast forward to the present:A brilliant economist, antagonist Willem Coetzee, has been fired and disgraced by the EU. He is planning his revenge. He will buy "put options" on the Euro in anticipation of a fall in the currency, which he will guarantee by killing the three individuals most responsible for holding the EU together.American Code 6 operative, Paul Decker, and the beautiful, but deadly, Mossad officer, Alex Stern, pick up the scent and begin to pursue this deranged man through Europe as he leaves a trail of dead bodies in his wake.Willem Coetzee is as maniacal as he is brilliant, a man driven by revenge who enjoys playing with his targets, torturing them mentally and physically before killing them. And the closer they get to capturing him, the more violent and unpredictable he becomes.Even with the assistance of Paul's brilliant East European hacker, Pavlik Lasky, INTERPOL, a tough Amsterdam cop, and a prisoner from Pollsmoor Prison, they remain one step behind the fiend as he slices a path of death through the heart of Europe…a chase more intense that that of the Jackal stalking Charles De Gaulle.As the chase comes to a head, Willem has killed two of the three men responsible for maintaining the EU, and comes within a hair's breath of killing the last one, only to be tracked down and killed by Paul and Alex at the last possible moment. I am a political activist who has written position papers for the Carter and Clinton White Houses. And I am now working with the Elizabeth Warren Campaign. My work on social issues has received recognition directly from the President of Mexico. I have written 30 novels, mostly international political thrillers. These are fiction based on fact. I am dedicated to exposing the truth, uncovering corruption, waste, and ignorance. Due to my Master's Degree in International Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, I am well qualified to do this work. I am not in it for the money. I am trying to wake people up, touch hearts, change minds, have them see and understand circumstances in the world they may not have been aware of. I want to make a positive difference in the world. Thank you. .Paul Decker: Delta Force, Seal Team 6, CIA, Code 6 operative. Takes orders from a single person: The President of the United States. He takes the assignments no one else will touch. But he is a 21st century solider, just as likely to use his computer skills: hacking, installing viruses, entering key stroke loggers, infiltration and exfiltration of secure sites, assassination.His assignments send him all over world where he usually teams up with a beautiful woman to compete an assignment. He's been shot, stabbed, beat up but never beaten.When Paul completes an assignment, the country is better off. But not Paul. His weakness is alcohol which he falls on when the memories of his failed marriage and estranged children overwhelm him. For having given all to the military, there is little left for his own well-being.I write political, military, crime and scientific thrillers. All my stories come right off the front pages of the major magazines and newspapers.I do not write books that simply entertain. My stories touch hearts and change minds, make readers laugh and cry, inspire people.My stories straddle the line between fiction and non-fiction.