Gruber addressed the camera.
“The last two years have been extremely difficult for the United Nations in trying to find a solution for the situation in North Africa, and in particular the exodus from Libya. The lack of cohesive coordination in the country has exaggerated the frustration to our efforts to stabilise and to manage the flow of refugees. However, we are pleased to announce the illicit traffic in people across the Mediterranean has slowed to the degree where our humanitarian initiatives are beginning to take hold. Much work still has to be done in ensuring countries willing to absorb the migrants are properly organised to do so. We will continue to cooperate with all states and parties involved and are grateful to the various governments for their positive inputs in this delicate situation.”
Only Marcel Benoit, Francine Louvet and the directors of International Security Partners knew why the various spokesmen for the authorities were unable to address the detailed issue of the actions taken against the Libyan-based people-trafficking gangs.
The phone rang in May-Ling’s office.
“Hello, my dear,” said the Interpol head.
“Hi, Marcel. How are you?”
“I’m fine, thanks. I think we can now close the file on our North African engagements. It appears the U.N. agencies have a stronger handle on it now your men have done their job. Good work. Say hello to the others for me.”
****
The December announcement in front of the packed Grand Banqueting Hall of the Grand Hotel in Oslo received a standing ovation as Doctor Benji Rafael accepted the embossed citation.
“The Nobel Peace Prize for this year is awarded to the Medical Mission for Peace in North Africa.”
THE END
The Jack Calder Series
The Violin Man’s Legacy
Jack Calder is an ex-SAS soldier working with former colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm. He is sent to investigate a murderous diamond heist in Holland, but swiftly learns that there is a strong Far East connection. He then travels to Hong Kong where he meets the glamorous chief of ISP’s local bureau, May-Ling.
Together they begin to unravel a complex web of corruption. The twin spiders at the centre of this web are the Chan brothers, leaders of one of Hong Kong’s most ruthless and powerful triad gangs.
The trail of death and mayhem coils across Europe, Hong Kong and South America until all the scores are settled.
A Jack Calder novel
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Vengeance Wears Black
Jack Calder and his former SAS colleagues at ISP, a specialist security firm, are saved from certain death when an ex-Gurkha is killed smothering a deadly grenade thrown into a lunchtime Chinese restaurant in the West End of London. They learn that murderous turf wars are raging between Asian Triads and Eastern European mobsters vying for control of international fiefdoms of drug smuggling, people trafficking, prostitution and money laundering.
An unexpected visit from the highest levels of international law enforcement offers Jack and the ISP team a means to use their black operations skills to wreak a ruthless retaliation against the drug lords.
Unlikely partners emerge in their onslaught against the gangs as the warring criminal factions threaten an unholy alliance to repel them. The pursuit spins across Europe, Turkey and North Africa before a final reckoning.
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Savage Payback
A series of coordinated lethal bomb attacks on a dozen jewellery stores in London’s West End drag former SAS officer, Jack Calder and his specialist security firm, International Security Partners, into a deadly mesh of murder and international drug running.
A black ops explosives expert, an ex-colleague turned renegade mercenary with a twisted lust for revenge, emerges from the past to join forces with a powerful and dangerous drug baron from Eastern Europe.
A major cocaine trafficker from South America compounds the threats as competitive turf issues straddle international territories.
Attacks close to home heighten the urgency for Calder and his team to find and deal with each of the three sinister adversaries in a final savage payback.
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Killer City
The discovery of a woman’s mutilated torso in a rubbish bin in the north of England sparks a twisting series of events for Jack Calder, a former SAS officer, and his colleagues at their specialist security firm, International Security Partners (ISP).
Jack’s offer to help an old buddy’s son escape a framed murder charge leads ISP into Manchester and London, across Europe into Lithuania and the mountains of Tajikistan hunting down the peddlers of illicit synthetic drugs, murder and prostitution rings.
Corruption at the highest levels in European police forces and political hierarchies call for the ISP’s black ops skills to combat the growing global menace of drugs on city streets.
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