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With Jake Beamers name, I waited for Angelos people to find me. I thought the attack would come on Day Five. I thought they would send at least a group of guys. Instead, they sent just one, and I learned I had run into Angelos people before. :(
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The 24 th Name
Part II
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John Braddock
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Copyright 2019 John Braddock . All rights reserved. Including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof, in any form. No part of this text may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the author.
This is a work of fiction and of the autho r s imagination.
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This does not constitute an official release of CIA information. All statements of fact, opinion, or analysis expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official positions or views of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or any other U.S. Government agency. Nothing in the contents should be construed as asserting or implying U.S. Government authentication of information or CIA endorsement of the author s views. This material has been reviewed solely for classification.
Chapter 1
I thought the attack would come on Day Five.
Which meant a bunch of things would happen between Days One and Four.
The first thing was that Angelo would tell his father what happened in Florida.
That would be on Day Two, because I thought Day One would be Angelo nursing his broken nose and deciding whether to tell his father what I did. But Angelo would tell his father what I did because the sober home racket in the Florida beach town was shut down, Roger was hospitalized, and the Cuban killer had seen me. The hurt on the business plus the Cuban as a witness meant Angelo needed to blame someone. He would blame me on Day Two.
When he did that, a second thing would happen on Day Two: Angelos father would decide whether to:
1. Come after me; or
2. Not to come after me.
Most criminals would choose Option 2: Theyd leave me alone. They knew I could defend myself. They knew I could cause damage. And since Id left Florida, I wasnt causing any more trouble. My home was in Wisconsin, as far as they knew. Which was a good distance from Florida. And a good distance from upstate New York, where Jake and I ran into them the first time. Most people would choose Option 2.
But some people have a different mindset. You could call it a survival mindset. Or a vengeance mindset. Or a Zero-Sum mindset.
Whatever you call it, its the mindset that obsesses on enemies. The mindset that says you should destroy anyone who attacks you.
That mindset would want to kill me for what Id done to Angelo and his business in Florida. Which is why Id given them Jakes name. So they would come to Wisconsin, in case they had the mindset that would choose Option 1.
If Angelos father chose Option 1, Day Three would be a mustering, planning and logistics day for his men. On Day Four, the men would arrive at Jakes cabin in Wisconsin and do reconnaissance. Which meant the attack would come on Day Five.
When they attacked, Id separate one from the group. Id ask him why the Cubans had been in upstate New York. Id ask him why they were using the weapons of Quebecois separatists. Id ask why they panicked and killed Bill, the gun range owner. And Id be a step closer to fixing the injustice of killing Jake.
But that all depended on me being right about the things that would happen between Days One and Four.
I was probably wrong about one of those things. Maybe, two. Or maybe I was wrong about the most fundamental thing: Maybe Angelos father didnt have the Zero-Sum mindset.
It turned out I was wrong about even more.
And I was wrong about how many would come after me.
Instead of a group, there was one.
Fortunately, I saw him before he saw me.
Chapter 2
My fifth name was for a nuclear bombmaker.
It was a brand-new name, so the CIA told me to choose it.
When the CIA tells you to choose a new name, they tell you to choose a name unconnected to you, which isnt easy.
Our minds are built on connections. Our memories are linked to other memories. Our thoughts are connected to other thoughts. Our minds thrive on connections.
Our minds make connections in three ways, according to David Hume:
1. Through resemblance
2. By contiguity in time or place, and
3. Due to cause and effect.
Which is useful, most of the time.
Its useful to find things that resemble each other, because things that resemble each other usually act the same. If two balls look alike and we see one bounce, chances are the other one will bounce the same way.
Its useful to find contiguity, so we know what to expect next in time or place. If something happens just before something else, the first thing may have caused the second thing. If something sits next to something else, chances are those two things are connected in some way.
Then, there are causes and effects. Causes and effects and the connections between them are what our minds are always trying to figure out.
Resemblance, contiguity and cause and effect help us make predictions about what happens next.
Which is a problem when youre a spy.
When youre a spy, you dont want to be connected as a cause to the effects that are happening. You dont want contiguity of time or place to bombs going off or sources being recruited or cryptography being stolen. And you dont want a resemblance to how people think of spies. You dont want anything connecting you to being a spy.
One way to break those connections is to use a new name. A name unconnected to you. A name unconnected to the CIA. A name that breaks the connection between you and the espionage thats about to happen.
But thats hard. Its hard to come up with something that doesnt resemble you and isnt contiguous to you and isnt connected to you via cause or effect.
To create something unconnected, a new data source helps.
Like a book.
Books take you out of your connections and experience. They introduce you to things that dont resemble what youve seen before. They move you out of the contiguity of time and place. They show you new causes and effects. The best books connect you to a whole new way of thinking.
But I didnt need a new way of thinking. I just needed a new name.
So I went to a different data source: Baseball rosters.
I went to the sports page of the local newspaper and chose the last name of a player from the night before. He was a relief pitcher who threw one inning, got one strikeout, gave up two hits and didnt allow any earned runs. More importantly, he had an ordinary last name that wasnt too common: Middleton.
Then I went to the opposing team and chose the first name of the second baseman. He went two for four that day with a double. More importantly, his first name was also ordinary but not too common: Zach.
I went to the online white pages and searched for Zach Middleton. Nationwide, there were 81 Zach Middletons in a country of 300-plus million. Eighty-one was a good number. It was too many to be able to call each one up and see if they were me. And it was too few to make it likely someone in a foreign country would be already connected to a Zach Middleton. Eighty-one was a good number for a brand-new name.
I gave the name to the people who create the paperwork. They did their check for whether Zach Middleton was connected to the CIA in the past.
The answer was no.
Zach Middleton was not connected to the CIA.
And Zach Middleton was not connected to me.
I became the eighty-second Zach Middleton registered in the United States at that time and got ready to use the name with a nuclear bombmaker.
The bombmaker had expertise in the early stages of building a nuclear weapon. He traveled throughout the Middle East. He knew who was doing what in other nuclear programs. Which meant he was useful to us.
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