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Origin - Season Two

Copyright © 2015 Nathaniel Dean James

Nathaniel Dean James is the pen name of author Jonathan Ronnquist, whose right to be identified as the author of this work under that name has been asserted by him in accordance with all relevant copyright laws.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Millennium Birdhouse Ltd.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored electronically, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior consent of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities between the characters in this book and any real person, living or deceased, or other fictional characters, is purely coincidental. All references to actual persons, places and events appear strictly for the sake of general reference, and are not to be construed as accurate for any other purpose.

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ISBN: 978-0-9928446-4-6

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Note to the Reader

Previously, on Origin

Prologue

Chapter 1:
Madison, Wisconsin

Chapter 2:
Aurora

Chapter 3:
Jangdan-myeon, North Korea

Chapter 4:
Aurora

Chapter 5:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 6:
The Pandora

Chapter 7:
Madison, Wisconsin

Chapter 8:
The Pandora

Chapter 9:
Madison, Wisconsin

Chapter 10:
Aurora

Chapter 11:
Dubai

Chapter 12:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 13:
Dubai

Chapter 14:
Washington DC

Chapter 15:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 16:
Aurora

Chapter 17:
Persian Gulf

Chapter 18:
The Pandora

Chapter 19:
Beijing

Chapter 20:
Persian Gulf

Chapter 21:
The Pandora

Chapter 22:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 23:
Washington Post Editorial

Chapter 24:
Iran

Chapter 25:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 26:
The Pandora

Chapter 27:
Iran

Chapter 28:
The Pandora

Chapter 29:
Iran

Chapter 30:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 31:
Mumbai, India

Chapter 32:
The Pandora

Chapter 33:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 34:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 35:
Goa, India

Chapter 36:
The Pandora

Chapter 37:
Mumbai, India

Chapter 38:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 39:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 40:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 41:
The Pandora

Chapter 42:
Beijing, China

Chapter 43:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 44:
Mumbai, India

Chapter 45:
Aurora

Chapter 46:
Beijing, China

Chapter 47:
The Pandora

Chapter 48:
Washington Post Editorial

Chapter 49:
The Pandora

Chapter 50:
Ganymede

Chapter 51:
Beijing, China

Chapter 52:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 53:
Washington DC

Chapter 54:
Tesuque, New Mexico

Chapter 55:
The Pandora

Chapter 56:
Zurich, Switzerland

Chapter 57:
Washington DC

Chapter 58:
Aurora

Chapter 59:
Qingdao, China

Chapter 60:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 61:
Zurich, Switzerland

Chapter 62:
Arlington, Virginia

Chapter 63:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 64:
The Pandora

Chapter 65:
Newburg, Maryland

Chapter 66:
Jangdan-myeon, North Korea

Chapter 67:
The Isle of Dragons

Chapter 68:
Zurich, Switzerland

Chapter 69:
Aurora

Chapter 70:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 71:
Dandong, China

Chapter 72:
The Pandora

Chapter 73:
Sinuiju, North Korea

Chapter 74:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 75:
The Isle of Dragons

Chapter 76:
The Pandora

Chapter 77:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 78:
FBI Field Office

Chapter 79:
The Pandora

Chapter 80:
The Isle of Dragons

Chapter 81:
Beijing, China

Chapter 82:
Bethesda, Maryland

Chapter 83:
Aurora

Chapter 84:
Richmond, Virginia

Chapter 85:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 86:
Aurora

Chapter 87:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 88:
The Pandora

Chapter 89:
Phoenix, Arizona

Chapter 90:
Washington DC

Chapter 91:
The Isle of Dragons

Chapter 92:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 93:
Aurora

Chapter 94:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 95:
The Pandora

Chapter 96:
Beijing, China

Chapter 97:
Nampo, North Korea

Chapter 98:
The Pandora

Chapter 99:
Beijing, China

Chapter 100:
The Pandora

Chapter 101:
Sunan, North Korea

Chapter 102:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Chapter 103:
Sunan, North Korea

Chapter 104:
The Pandora

Chapter 105:
East China Sea

Chapter 106:
The Pandora

Chapter 107:
38,000 Miles Above the Earth

Chapter 108:
The Pandora

Chapter 109:
The Xilin Gol

Chapter 110:
The Pandora

Chapter 111:
Pyongyang, North Korea

Conclusion

Dear Reader

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Appendix A: Cast

Appendix B: Names, Places and Objects of Significance

Appendix C: An Account from the Origin Files

 

In cherished memory of Leonard Nimoy

March 1931 – February 2015

Note to the Reader

By necessity, Origin is a series that cannot be read out of sequence. I would go so far as to say that it is a single work broken into parts for the sake of practicality, but this is not entirely true either. It is perhaps best compared to a television production in which a specific conflict is resolved inside each episode while also carrying the larger story and cast forward. This was in fact how the series was originally conceived, hence Season Two and not Part II. I mention it here only as a warning to anyone who has come across this book that you would do best to begin with the first volume. Origin Season One is available for free from most online eBook retailers.

As in the first book, I have included two appendixes to help readers find their feet, so to speak. The first is a list of characters in alphabetical order and a short description of each. The second is a list of significant names, places and objects. My only advice to those using the lists would be not to let your curiosity get the better of you and run the chance of premature exposure to events best left to their rightful moment. There is also a third appendix, titled
An Account from the Origin Files
. These are intended for readers who would like a greater insight into certain events that are alluded to in the story, but do not form an essential part of it. I will do my best to include these where I think they will be of interest in all subsequent books in the series.

And finally, a quick note on the timeline. As you will no doubt recall from Season One, I include a place/date/time stamp at the beginning of each chapter. The argument
for
these is that the pace of events being what it is, some readers might find them useful. The argument against is that the use of local time zones can create the appearance of discontinuity. My advice would be to use them if you need to, and ignore them if you don’t. In terms of universal time, the book proceeds in chronological order from beginning to end. Thus, where a chapter takes place at great distance from its predecessor, it may look as if we have gone back in time, but this is only an illusion created by the rotation of our humble little planet.

Previously, on Origin…

When we last left our friends, I believe Francis and Richelle were sharing a moment of quiet reflection on the arrival of RP One. For those of you struggling to recall the specifics, I thought it might be only fair if I recounted them here in considerably less detail.

– – –

In the summer of 2006, Francis Moore, having recruited to his cause the very capable Gerald Ross, breaks into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with an eye to stealing the files of a secret assassination program called Princip. Once a member of Princip himself, Francis has undergone a crisis of conscience in the years since his staged death and intends to use the stolen files to blackmail the CIA into shutting the program down. Technically, at least, the plan succeeds.

But unbeknownst to Francis, the safety deposit box once rented by a front group of the Agency has undergone a change of ownership in the interim. It now belongs to a man named Jack Fielding. Jack just happens to be in the middle of his own double-cross, only he is not attempting to coerce the CIA, but a far more secretive organization by the name of Aurora.

In a desperate effort to recover the hard drive Francis has unwittingly taken from him, Jack turns to his FBI informant to help him find the thief before the Bureau’s own investigator, your friend and mine, Mike Banner. Jack’s efforts to track Francis lead to the small Vermont town of Morisson where they end in spectacular failure, but not before they bring Jack to the attention of Princip’s chief handler, the shadowy Norton Weaver.

Weaver, ignoring strict orders not to interfere, employs two ex-Mossad agents to track Francis down along with the two local residents now in his charge, Jesse and Amanda. Francis flees with them across the border into Canada and leaves them to fend for themselves while he returns to the US in search of answers.

His inquiries eventually lead him to Mike Banner, and the two of them travel to Florida to see Francis’s friend and mentor, Reginald Styles. Things appear to be looking up when news reaches them of the plight of Jesse and Amanda, who have narrowly escaped death at the hands of Norton Weaver’s henchmen.

In the meantime, Mitch Rainey, Mike’s long-time friend and colleague, is kidnapped after stumbling upon Darkstar, a decommissioned satellite still very much in orbit. Mitch is quietly ferried to Aurora, the organization’s secret facility beneath the Isle of Dragons in the Baltic Sea, to play the role of scapegoat at the hands of Brendan Fisher, aka, the Chief.

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