The Abduction

The Abduction by Peter Kuthemba Mwale American fisherman Mitch Marshall’s horizon is broadening. He is a multi-billionaire about not resting on his laurels; but his hunger for more success puts himself and his crew in harm’s way when he sails his beloved Drennec along the Gulf of Aden … the Gulf is infested with ruthless Somali pirates, and they are hell bent on bleeding the Marshalls from Kendall, Miami dry. Jeff Marshall is the dad; a covert-operative bearing the unwieldy bureaucratic title of deputy director for political-military affairs in the National Security Agency, he is the advance man for every sitting president of the United States of America, and this time he is headed off to Pyongyang to negotiate with the North Koreans on the disarmament of the Yongbyon nuclear facility … until the phone call with the news he always dreaded to hear … some fiendish African pirates had got his own … For a career hostage-negotiator like Jeff and high-flying top-notch attorney Harvard alumna daughter-in-law Heidi, this is supposed to be easy, until they stumble upon an intricate and deadly conspiracy … the initial ransom demand by the pirates is $50 million, the exact amount of Mitch’s kidnap-and-ransom insurance policy, and didn’t the second demand leap to a staggering $6 billion matching to the last dollar the amount Mitch made bid for the fire-sale of the troubled Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers asset, the Investment Management division? And why is the insurance company refusing to pay the claim?