The Ericksen Connection is a spy thriller about betrayal, PTSD, corruption, conspiracy, terrorism, and murder. Mark Ericksen, the former Navy SEAL Team-Six operator and executive vice-president of EyeD4 Systems, a biometrics defense contractor based in Wilsonville, Oregon, was all about duty, honor, and country. He resigned his commission in 2002, and over the next several years worked for three defense contractors, maintaining his top-secret security clearance while hiding his PTSD.
In 2009, the CIA received actionable intelligence about a Saudi terrorist mastermind aided by Russian arms dealers who needed a classified biometrics encryption communications system from EyeD4 Systems, to direct his sleeper cell operatives in launching a horrific nuclear attack on American cities.
When America urgently needs his services again, the CIA tasks him for Operation Avenging Eagles to sabotage the plot. Can Ericksen avoid discovery and thwart the nuclear attack before a network of terrorists achieves their plans?
Genre: FICTION / EspionageOver 1,000 books sold.
ON APRIL 18, 2002, AT ZERO DARK FORTY, AN MK-47 Chinook Helo lifted off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, into a moonless night with a roar, escorted by two Apache gunships, headed to the village of Zarghun Mekh, twenty miles from Khost, Afghanistan. Mark Ericksen, a Navy SEAL lieutenant, and second-in-command leaned forward on the webbed bench. He took a deep breath and reflected on his wife Karen's last words to him as he gritted his teeth. I'm proud of you for protecting our country, but I want you back home in one piece. I love you.
He glanced at several of his men, and his squadron commander, Major Jeb Templeton, nodded and gave them the thumbs-up sign. Eighteen men of the Bravo Team, part of the elite tier-one operators from the Joint Special Operations Command, JSOC, were on a high-value-targets-mission. The men wore battle dress uniforms, and all had beards and long hair to blend into the Afghan culture. The team's painted camo green and brown earth-tone faces highlighted the whites of their eyes. Several minutes into the flight, many men closed their eyes to rest, and silence prevailed except for the helo's noise. The rotor blades thumped in cadence to a "Whop-whop-whop" beat and the gears made a whining sound like a high-speed chainsaw.
Ericksen had been on thirty-two missions since arriving in Afghanistan at the end of 2001. He thought about their most recent mission briefing. Eleven days before, the Agency, as the military referred to the CIA, received actionable intel on the targeted leaders' meeting for April 18 at 0900 hours. The Predator drone had conducted recon and surveillance in the village over the past six days. He transferred intel back to the Agency at Bagram Air Base's Tactical Operations Center, the TOC.
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