The Hireling

The ‘War on Terror’ is a pack of lies. Corrupt governments collude with their corporate masters to build the national security state. Draconian measures are introduced on the flimsiest pretexts. The normal rules of evidence are suspended. Mike Simmons works for a shady outfit called Cerberus Security Systems with the remit of odd-job man; a general-purpose hireling. He goes where he is told to go and does what he is told to do. Even when he is sent on the most ludicrous and vicious assignments, to seemingly nonsensical ends, the same rule always applies. No questions asked. Then Simmons is ordered to liquidate a young, supposedly radicalised, Muslim lately returned from Pakistan. Things are about to get very dirty indeed.