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MARAUDER WOMAN
By Robert J Gordon
Former NATO Special Forces Colonel Don McDougal commands an insurgent strike force accepting contracts to perform missions most countries do not allow the military to perform. Whether attacking villages supporting terrorists, assassinating political figures, or destroying national opposition groups, McDougal’s Marauders ignore the laws regulating warfare to complete contracts including at times Geneva Convention protocol.
McDougal accepts a contract from Al Qaeda to destroy an Afghan warlord exporting drugs grown in mountain villages. The foreign sales are in contravention of El Qaeda rules for funding terrorism. The mission design to gain access to the warlord's region also requires a combat qualified woman acting as McDougal’s wife while representing a charitable organization funding agricultural projects in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border Kush Mountain region.
After an exhaustive search of international police and military personnel files military intelligence specialist Sherry Trottier surfaces as the chosen candidate. Once briefed on the project Trottier suggests a short-term marriage including a valid predated marriage certificate to authenticate the pair to Al Qaeda researchers as a legally married couple. The arrangement leads to romance both parties find appealing but reluctant to accept as anything other than part of the mission. The prohibitive romance becomes a factor in the lives of adult children and personal relationships.
A skirmish in Pakistan results in killing of three independent Taliban fighters attempting to capture McDougal and Trottier for a ransom demand. The incident forces McDougal to reconfigure the Afghanistan mission sending Sherry to Kandahar military hospital disguised as a nurse. She becomes a suspect when a doctor with ties to her past is killed at the hospital. Trottier is spirited away from the base before a investigation can begin. The disappearance is arranged by McDougal by reassigning Trottier to take part in a on related North American assignment.
The mission is revealed as having a dual purpose when Trottier reports assignment progress to military intelligence after leaving the Kandahar. Trottier's Joint Task Force II team role is United Nations supported with an ulterior motive to destroy McDougal’s Marauder strike force. To protect Trottier Military Intelligence assigns her recently graduated military officer to liaise with McDougal’s strike force. The son’s assignment complicates the lives of McDougal, Trottier and both extended families.
McDougal arranges a high-level meeting of United Nations, European, Canadian and British intelligence officers and after soliciting the help of a Saudi Arabian ally to arrange an Al Qaeda contact allows the original mission to resume.
Action leading to the mountain village attack stretches from Kabul to Tajikistan and Pakistan involving a Marauder strike force and Joint Task Force II confrontation. The eventual outcome is in doubt after an unmanned American military pilotless drone aircraft collides with one of the attack helicopters preparing to evacuate McDougal’s Strike force from the warlord’s village. Sherry escapes on a second rescue helicopter while both McDougal and her son become victims of the aircraft catastrophe.
The village attack becomes a major factor in Marauder Woman Sherry Trottier’s life after the mission ends and El Qaeda puts a price on her head.
By Robert J Gordon
Former NATO Special Forces Colonel Don McDougal commands an insurgent strike force accepting contracts to perform missions most countries do not allow the military to perform. Whether attacking villages supporting terrorists, assassinating political figures, or destroying national opposition groups, McDougal’s Marauders ignore the laws regulating warfare to complete contracts including at times Geneva Convention protocol.
McDougal accepts a contract from Al Qaeda to destroy an Afghan warlord exporting drugs grown in mountain villages. The foreign sales are in contravention of El Qaeda rules for funding terrorism. The mission design to gain access to the warlord's region also requires a combat qualified woman acting as McDougal’s wife while representing a charitable organization funding agricultural projects in the Afghanistan/Pakistan border Kush Mountain region.
After an exhaustive search of international police and military personnel files military intelligence specialist Sherry Trottier surfaces as the chosen candidate. Once briefed on the project Trottier suggests a short-term marriage including a valid predated marriage certificate to authenticate the pair to Al Qaeda researchers as a legally married couple. The arrangement leads to romance both parties find appealing but reluctant to accept as anything other than part of the mission. The prohibitive romance becomes a factor in the lives of adult children and personal relationships.
A skirmish in Pakistan results in killing of three independent Taliban fighters attempting to capture McDougal and Trottier for a ransom demand. The incident forces McDougal to reconfigure the Afghanistan mission sending Sherry to Kandahar military hospital disguised as a nurse. She becomes a suspect when a doctor with ties to her past is killed at the hospital. Trottier is spirited away from the base before a investigation can begin. The disappearance is arranged by McDougal by reassigning Trottier to take part in a on related North American assignment.
The mission is revealed as having a dual purpose when Trottier reports assignment progress to military intelligence after leaving the Kandahar. Trottier's Joint Task Force II team role is United Nations supported with an ulterior motive to destroy McDougal’s Marauder strike force. To protect Trottier Military Intelligence assigns her recently graduated military officer to liaise with McDougal’s strike force. The son’s assignment complicates the lives of McDougal, Trottier and both extended families.
McDougal arranges a high-level meeting of United Nations, European, Canadian and British intelligence officers and after soliciting the help of a Saudi Arabian ally to arrange an Al Qaeda contact allows the original mission to resume.
Action leading to the mountain village attack stretches from Kabul to Tajikistan and Pakistan involving a Marauder strike force and Joint Task Force II confrontation. The eventual outcome is in doubt after an unmanned American military pilotless drone aircraft collides with one of the attack helicopters preparing to evacuate McDougal’s Strike force from the warlord’s village. Sherry escapes on a second rescue helicopter while both McDougal and her son become victims of the aircraft catastrophe.
The village attack becomes a major factor in Marauder Woman Sherry Trottier’s life after the mission ends and El Qaeda puts a price on her head.
