Wages of Fear

Wages of Fear

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By:  Ted  Ongoing
Language: English
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After Jason Yeo, the richest man in the world, discovers he has a year to live, he liquidates his fortune and produces a series of global actions that he hopes will create change. In his pursuit of peace and truth, Yeo addresses such issues as human traffic, nuclear war, and the poverty that imperils the Third World. When Yeo’s actions begin to rattle global power structures, he becomes the target of Deep 6, an underworld intelligence agency working for the Shadow State, a cabal of the wealthy and powerful, whose members make the big decisions on the planet. Will Deep 6 stop Yeo, or will his year run out first?

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Jason Yeo

Jason Yeo sat alone on the bench in the middle of the park with a cup of coffee. He had been sitting for an hour, dazed by the news. He didn’t shed a tear; he didn’t call anyone; he just sat, watching the frail human beings, who had no idea how frail they were, stroll- ing past him with their friends at their side, their kids at their side,their dogs at their side.It was just another day to them, wiping children, laughing inthe midst of conversation, cleaning up after their dogs.Two lovers were arguing on a b

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28 Chapters

Jason Yeo

Jason Yeo sat alone on the bench in the middle of the park with a cup of coffee. He had been sitting for an hour, dazed by the news. He didn’t shed a tear; he didn’t call anyone; he just sat, watching the frail human beings, who had no idea how frail they were, stroll- ing past him with their friends at their side, their kids at their side, their dogs at their side.It was just another day to them, wiping children, laughing in the midst of conversation, cleaning up after their dogs.Two lovers were arguing on a b
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Chapter 2

Yeo spent several days thinking it through, making rudimentary sketches and simple outlines as a rough approach to his plan, something to get things started. He summoned the board to a meet- ing on Monday.The people at the conference table on the 105th floor of the TransGlobal Building were not only trusted colleagues but friends he had known for decades.Yeo had a knack for surrounding himself with people who never disappointed him.“I&r
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Chapter 3

 Sometimes known as a boil on the ass of an angel, Dinkleberry worked the night shift in the lowest personnel level of Deep 6. The levels beneath him were storage areas and finally the Underground out of the desert, back to civilization. Deep 6 was located in the bowels of a remote desert, its existence unknown to even the official powers of the government. It was unknown to the CIA. It was unknown to Mossad. It was the most important intelligence operative of the Shadow State, whose membership consisted of the people who actu
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Chapter 4

Yeo had to tell Ilina. He even looked forward to observing her response. Would she pity him enough to open her heart? Would that same violet shimmer play in her eyes once more? Or would she maintain the same cool demeanor that she always met him with?It was her eyes that struck him the first time he saw her in Tehran. 
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Chapter 5

He found her in the garden, leaning over some plants. Her passion for gardening began after Roland’s death. She spent the entire afternoon in the sun. It kept her free from the shadows of her thoughts, at least for a time. She once had friends who came in the afternoon and sat on the veranda over lunch. The rest of her time had been spent painting in the studio on the third floor, looking out on the lake.
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Chapter 6

She brought the platter heaped with feta cheese, tomatoes, and red onions and set on the table on the veranda. She sat down beside Yeo and poured herself a glass of wine.They began to eat.“Do you like my tomatoes?” she asked after a while.“They are better than last summer,” he told her.
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Chapter 7

Yeo flew back to New York.He called a meeting of the board members and the full management team. Chuck Maitland had delegated authority to the people he knew he could rely on.Pulling a tight-knit organization together, sworn to silence, everyone acting like a CIA suddenly converted to gentleness and love for human kind, required a lot of discretion. And even more trust. 
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Chapter 8

He had fucked up 9/11. It was right in front of his eyes and he blew it.Dink could never stop whipping himself for this oversight. In retrospect, the hints were clear, but there was nothing solid enough to go running upstairs to Shroud. In the aftermath, informational interference created so much chaos and distorted feeling that Dink’s blindness was never addressed, in spite of the fact
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Chapter 9

Sonny Boy was a twenty-six-year-old black drag queen. She was testing games for software companies when she was eight. She was a manager by the time she was ten. By the time she was twenty-two she was designing software for Fortune 500 companies. 
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Chapter 11

Dink walked down the stony corridor, with rough-hewn stone walls on either side of him, the rugs as soft as down beneath his feet. Lighting emanated from the ceiling, from small lamps set back in the stone. It was assumed there were cameras behind the lights.Timers dimmed and brightened the tiny lights throughout the day so the ocular muscles would move, allowing the stiffs to blink occasiona
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