Julio Antonio Del Marmol

Broschiertes Buch

The Lightning and bin Laden

The Genetic Trail of the Lightning

Beschreibung

Frustrated by the intelligence bureaucracy's inability to stop the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol withdraws from his activity, retiring to his safehouse in Mexico. O'Brien tries several times to bring him out of his seclusion, and it is finally a new political campaign for the Presidency of Mexico which does the trick. One of the candidates has been targeted for assassination; unfortunately, that candidate cannot or will not change his itinerary, and the assassination takes place. But the mission spurs Dr. del Marmol to get back to work, and he travels to Venezuela to meet with a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda, the head of their financial division. Overcome with remorse over the New York attack, he wishes to defect and turn over the financial records of Osama bin Laden. On their way back their plane crashes in the Yucatan Peninsula, killing the terrorist. Dr. del Marmol soon finds himself targeted by a kidnapping attempt, learning in the process that the operators were hired by bin Laden himself, who wants to have a private conversation with Dr. del Marmol. He also discovers that there must be a mole within his organization, as other attempts happen that could only occur because their enemies have been tipped off about the movements of the team. It soon is revealed that these attempts come from the White House itself. They travel back to Venezuela shortly after Dr. del Marmol gives O'Brien a package to show the President a good reason for him to call off his dogs. Their mission is to track down and confront bin Laden, who now desires to have the Cuban Lightning killed.

Autor

Dr. Julio Antonio del Marmol is the son of the primary financier behind Fidel Castro's revolution, Leonardo del Marmol. A Grand Master Mason, Leonardo organized his Masonic brothers to provide the funds Castro needed to purchase supplies and weapons. When the revolution won in January, 1959, then-11-year-old Julio Antonio wanted to become part of the revolution. His father arranged to get a letter written by his son detailing a plan to organize the Cuban youth into an army of the future into the hands of Fidel Castro, who flew out to meet the young man. Impressed by the boy's eloquence, he presented Julio Antonio with his own .38 pistol as a give and appointed him Commander-in-Chief of the Young Commandos of the Rebel Army and the youngest military commander in the revolution. Within six months, Che Guevara showed the youth that the plan was to implement a communist system on the island. In distress, he went to warn his father, who accused Julio Antonio of being brainwashed by an uncle in Havana (who never liked the revolution) and threw his own 12 year old son out of the house. Julio Antonio went to his uncle and revealed everything he had seen, only to discover that his uncle was a master spy going back to World War II, in which he was in charge of the network preventing the Nazis from taking control of the Caribbean and Central/South America. His uncle recruits and trains Julio Antonio, making him the youngest spy in history. He continues in his role, taking secrets from Castro's own office until his cover is blown in 1971. He must leave the island for the US, taking his fight against communism to a global level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu Press
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9781685880323
• ISBN-10: 1685880320
• Artikelnr.: 63090215