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    Assassination in Los Angeles
    Assassination in Los Angeles
    Assassination in Los Angeles
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    Assassination in Los Angeles

    By Mike Ward

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    Stephen Haggerty used to work for the British SAS. He was trained to go into the houses of Gulf Arabs in the Middle East and kill the guards and then the occupants. One day the British government threw Haggerty on the scrap heap and he was reduced to driving trucks for $7 an hour. Three years ago Stephen Haggerty was introduced to an American from Philadelphia and now he has a completely different kind of job for a very secretive organization based in Pennsylvania.

    Haggerty is sent to Los Angeles to assassinate a Hollywood agent called Robyn Bernstein who has failed to get a part for an actress who bears a grudge. Robyn is close to getting the right part for Sharon Pettifer but unfortunately for her the young actress has hooked up with a very powerful Armenian who was willing to put a contract out on the agent. Haggerty is already in Los Angeles, the hit is a go but right now Robyn Bernstein is setting up a meeting that will propel Sharon Pettifer right into the group of A list actresses.

    Depending on what day Haggerty does the hit, Sharon Pettifer will either get a call or she will not get a call. That is still in her future. Something is in Haggerty's future too. He has a fake identity as a mining engineer but someone known to Haggerty has been probing that identity hard and the group in Philadelphia do not like that at all. After the assassination is over Haggerty has a meeting at the Talbot Group's corporate offices but that meeting will take place in a conference room at the back of the building and many people who end up in that conference room do not make it out of there.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ward
    Release dateJun 25, 2016
    ISBN9781310913167
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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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      Assassination in Los Angeles - Mike Ward

      Assassination in Los Angeles

      by Mike Ward

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

      Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

      Published by Mike Ward at Smashwords

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      Table of Contents

      Assassination in Los Angeles

      Excerpt from Assassination in Orlando

      About Mike Ward

      Other Books by Mike Ward

      Connect with Mike Ward

      Excerpt from The Banker With a Face Full of Evil

      Assassination in Los Angeles

      Vernon Stansfeld looked through the binoculars at the valley below. His field glasses took in various areas of the valley before settling on the area that was his real field of interest. A woman’s face filled the viewfinder of the binoculars. The woman was in her early forties with long straight dark hair cut neatly. The woman’s hair was slicked back and her face had a wily look about it. That woman’s name was Robyn Bernstein and in one week she was scheduled to die by an assassin’s bullet. Vernon Stansfeld looked at the man beside him. Positive ID, he said. The other man’s name was Paul Robeson and he passed Vernon Stansfeld two stones both about three inches across. The stones were nondescript looking, not the kind of stone you would want to pick up but nevertheless distinctive. The stones were markers and Vernon Stansfeld placed them carefully on the ground. When the assassin arrived the location of the stones would quickly and efficiently show him the best place to lie for a head shot at anyone sitting by the pool. A third stone placed two minutes ago gave a shot into the lounge area of the house and was aligned so that a shooter could blow the back of the head off anyone watching television.

      Vernon Stansfeld was known to many people as kindly old Uncle Vernon but in actual fact Vernon Stansfeld was in very good condition for his age and he could if he so chose kill a man forty years younger than him in less than ninety seconds. Like the other man with him, Vernon Stansfeld had been in Vietnam and in his basement there were several sets of Viet Cong ears and also a Viet Cong skull which had been signed by all the surviving members of his platoon at the end of his first tour of duty in ‘Nam. He also had a necklace made from the teeth of a South Vietnamese woman who had quite frankly been a real piece of work and had kept interrupting Vernon's breakfast at a cafe in Saigon by calling him a fucking pig. Vernon had eventually lost it, tied the woman to a chair and removed all her teeth before he killed her.

      The woman whose face filled the viewfinder of Stansfeld’s binoculars was called Robyn Bernstein and she was a top Hollywood agent. This valley was far enough out from Burbank that it was not home to major stars but more to minor stars and people associated with Hollywood such as agents. Having said that it was an excellent location and the woman below was happy with her property and with her life in general. She had been successful in more ways than one. She was a much sought after agent and she specialized in finding new young actresses and building them into stars. One of the side benefits of this, at least as far as Robyn Bernstein was concerned was that she employed the casting couch as a method of selecting the actresses she put forward. Unlike many other agents in Hollywood though, Robyn followed through and rather than casting an actress aside she would always find them work. Just lately an actress who had passed across her couch more than a year ago had been bugging Robyn to find her work. The actress had potential but it was just a case of finding the right starting movie. Robyn knew that once she did that the actress would do the rest and everything would flow. In this case, Robyn had not approached the actress, she had approached Robyn and it had been her idea. Sharon Pettifer had told Robyn she had no problem with the idea of the casting couch and she knew that almost all the top actresses and some of the top actors had used that method. She had said she was fine with that as long as Robyn followed through. Robyn had agreed to that and had told the Sharon she could find her work but as yet, Robyn had not done her part. Robyn knew that the actress would be successful but what she wanted to do was to find her a role that would springboard her straight into the big league and Robyn knew that she could do that. However, such a part was harder to find for this actress than Robyn had anticipated. It would happen soon, she knew it and she had some irons in the fire and was waiting for one to spring up.

      What Robyn Bernstein did not know was that Sharon Pettifer had lost patience with her and had decided to take alternative action. The result of this alternative action was the two men on the hill above Robyn Bernstein’s property who had just marked out an assassination site for a British assassin called Stephen Haggerty. Haggerty was due to fly into LAX in four days and sometime in the three days after that Robyn Bernstein was likely to have the front or the back of her head blown off or, if Haggerty preferred, her heart would be blown apart. Stephen Haggerty worked for an organization out of Philadelphia and that organization had gotten the contract for Robyn Bernstein exactly two weeks ago.

      Robyn Bernstein sat back in her chair unaware that she was in the perfect spot for a head shot right now and had that been Vernon Stansfeld’s assignment then Robyn Bernstein would already have died today. Up on the hill Vernon Stansfeld and Paul Robeson, their work done,

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