Code Name Pigeon

Michael Pigeon, having just completed an elite school for executive security in Aspen, Colorado, is brought in for his first mission briefing. After the briefing is concluded, he and three other specially chosen SPOT agents set out for the beautiful country of Venezuela. Michael discovers that, although the country is rich and beautiful, someone has placed a bounty on his head. Michael realizes that he and the other SPOT agent's lives have been sold for blood money. After crashing out at sea in the diplomat's private plane, Michael wonders if anyone survived the mle at the airstrip. Bill Yancy impresses upon the diplomat that the contract negotiations must continue for the emerald, ruby and sapphire gemstones that are to be used in the U. S. laser industry. However, the diplomat and his wife are concerned about their kids. Michael understands his executive security job is two fold: First, keep himself alive. Second keep the kids alive until they can be reunited with their parents. Once this mission is completed, Michael wants to find out whom it was that sold them all out. Find out if Michael can put a large piece of the puzzle together in this second book of the Code Name Pigeon series.

Michael Pigeon thought that this mission was going to be routine. Posing as an Austrian journalist for a military weapons identification manual publisher. Arriving in Tripoli, Libya, Michael meets his point of contact, a CIA clandestine service operative who holds the rank of a major in the Libyan Army. The major takes Michael around to the various missile sites for snapshots and general observation. At one site, both of them are shown a clandestine weapons laboratory. The Libyans, during the 1990s, had conducted chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons manufacturing and testing. The nuclear weapons part of the laboratory was equipped with obsolete, unsafe equipment for making nuclear warheads. The major and Michael are exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. Within days, radiation-poisoning symptoms set in, all part of a carefully conceived plan of the Libyan government to get rid of any snoopers. Michael and the major discover that the ship, sitting pier side in Tripoli for some years now, has 450 Al-Fatah II series missiles onboard. Each missile is equipped with a 500-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead. The Libyans are planning a terrorist attack against the U. S. of a level never imagined since September 11, 2001. Find out if Michael and the Major can warn the U. S. in time.