Summoned to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago, a dying man whispers his confession to Father O’Malley revealing the secret of who shot the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. Father O’Malley believes he has been chosen to bring to justice those responsible for their assassinations. But how is he to do this without breaking his vows for the sanctity of the confessional?
Shortly after leaving St. Joseph’s, the brakes of the priest’s car fail and he narrowly escapes death. He enlists the help of FBI agent Mike LaGuardia – who immediately ends up saving the priest’s life again, this time from an assassin’s bullet. Together with Mike and two intrepid Viet Nam vets, Father O’Malley embarks on his mission to unlock and expose the riddle of the King and Kennedy assassinations.
Meanwhile, Chicago mob boss Vincenzo Gato and CIA operative Lawrence Cain – tied together as far back as the Shadow Wars and the Bay of Pigs invasion -- are gathering forces to thwart Father O’Malley and his protectors.
The Mission is a fast paced thriller that explores the violence and assassinations of the sixties through the eyes of those who lived through the social upheaval of that turbulent era.
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LT.Greene banked the helicopter and came back over the spot again,even lower this time.Red and Pops concentrated harder now,trying to penetrate the thick green jungle covering the ground like a blanket. They saw nothing.Pops fired at the spot where he had first seen the flash. Set on low,the 7.62-millimeter minigun,mounted on the left side of the aircraft's fuselage
rained down bullets at a rate of two thousand rounds per minute. It was effective at a range of one thousand meters. The rounds tore into the flesh of trees, splitting branches, and some buried themselves in the jungle's black dirt. Then all hell broke loose.
Fire seemed to be coming from all directions, down toward the jungle and up from the green foliage. Red grabbed some grenades that were in glass jars and dropped them down on the enemy. The jars allowed the grenades to make their way through the dense jungle before exploding,making them even more deadly. Home made bombs,some fragmentation grenades taped to C4 plastic explosive, also rained down on the enemy below.
It was time for the second part of the team, Red Bird to take over. Red and the other members of the crew watched as the AH-1G Cobra gunship made its pass. The Loach had marked the target with smoke grenades. The gunship fired its M61A1, twenty-millimeter,electronic drive, Vulcan cannon with devastating results, even at a range of two thousand meters. Combined with the cannon fire, the 2.75-inch, folding fin, aerial rocket saturated the jungle with the fletchette round. The warhead was filled with two thousand, dart shaped, steel nails,, which were ejected as the rocket slowed at about fifteen hundred meters from the chopper. The green jungle erupted into a volcano of smoke and fire.
The Loach was turning from its last pass to assess the damages to the enemy when the tail-rotor area burst into flames from the blast of an RPG. Pieces of the debris hit the main rotor damaging it also. LT. Greene struggled in vain to keep the aircraft under control. He radioed the Red Cobra team members that he was going down, and then warned his crew to prepare to crash land.
About Larry Hunter
Larry Hunter was born and raised in Chicago’s northwest side, where he graduated from Fenwick High School and Wilbur Wright College. He moved to the suburbs in the seventies and after a thirty year sales career, was bitten by the writing bug. He has three grown children, and two grown stepchildren, and to date, seven grandchildren. He is often seen at Cubs and Bears games and he also enjoys fishing and gardening. He and his wife, Fran, and their spunky dog Bella still live in the Chicago area. Hunter is currently working on his second book.
Summoned to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago, a dying man whispers his confession to Father O’Malley revealing the secret of who shot the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. Father O’Malley believes he has been chosen to bring to justice those responsible for their assassinations. But how is he to do this without breaking his vows for the sanctity of the confessional?
Larry Hunter was born and raised in Chicago’s northwest side, where he graduated from Fenwick High School and Wilbur Wright College. He moved to the suburbs in the seventies and after a thirty year sales career, was bitten by the writing bug. He has three grown children, and two grown stepchildren, and to date, seven grandchildren. He is often seen at Cubs and Bears games and he also enjoys fishing and gardening. He and his wife, Fran, and their spunky dog Bella still live in the Chicago area. Hunter is currently working on his second book.