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The End of Terrorism

  By

  Rakesh B. Sethi

  Copyright © 2009 Rakesh Sethi.

  All Rights Reserved.

  Chapter One

  Crackberry Elections

  In the frenzy of general elections, candidates have been busy vying for media attention. The outcome has been ever so slightly been manipulated by a sinister foreign hand. A calculated plan has been carried out, by a group of men, so bent to destroy the will of the people. A sliver of hope is alive when Fermi Wenn, a journalist for the Times figures out the plan.

  Fermi is tired of routine high tech reporting. He is by training a law graduate from NU and is bored by the mundane world of tech buzz. He is not happy.

  Election fever has gripped the world and is not only the talk of town in the boring papers of megapolis but has taken over the war rooms scattered over shanty towns far places that are the nesting grounds of fallen and leftovers. These nests are reorganizing with speed and frenzy and are concocting a potion so lethal that is set to destabilize the free world. These written off and discounted goondas of Mumbai , have a brilliant plan that is set to unfold at the eve of these elections. An accidental gathering of forces ever so small mixed with the infinite passion of these goondas, unleashes a string of killings that climb exponentially in weeks. The killers have taken the tide of high technology and turned it over selectively to eliminate the key players of the election.

  Will the mobile wars shape the global theater completely and forever?

  Sheri Govan was a housewife who had a passion for reading global newspapers especially American papers everyday. Sheri is not happy. She knew the presidential candidates and had her own view of what the candidacy should be.

  Sheri was so convinced of the fact that the lives of billions of her countrymen depended on the outcome of the election. She was a teacher of computer arithmetic at a local college and spent all her day mired in the theorems and proofs and test and class work.

  Her nights were sleepless and she was constantly on the web till the wee hours of the dawn. She was amused by the campaign and the trail of lies and deceit web that was being laid by all the candidates.

  Atilla was homeless. Fifteen years old, despondent but not despaired he was constantly fascinated by the nature of mosquito’s and how they replicate. He slept by the railway tracks of Gurla. He was not happy.

  Poor Atilla was endowed by rich imagination. He played imaginary games in which mosquitoes could be marked, trained and unleashed on unsuspecting people. He bred a special colony of mosquitoes and fed them a special liquid diet rich in phenyldehadrol.

  These mosquito’s would go crazy after feeding on this liquid and dash for the passing trains and bite on some of these folks. Within hours the folks would develop blisters that bubbled the size of golf balls and starting oozing disgusting pus. Atilla would then read the papers the following week and see the epidemics unfold.

  Never satisfied with these games he was bent on learning better and faster ways of mischief. Atilla met Sheri at a local sweet shop and Sheri offered him to come under her tutelage at school. Atilla with no particular motivation chose to dive into the world of education and did not like the snobbery of the local kids who ridiculed him as he told the stories of pet mosquitoes.

  Atilla meets Trish outside a local call center. Trish is a software programmer by training and is doing part time work at the call center. Trish writes firmware for a cell phone company. Trish has tight timelines to deliver the code and has been doing it for a decade.

  Over the years she had learnt the nitty gritty of cell phone software and in her spare time also wrote games for cell phone market. Atilla was drawn to Trish and liked being close to her.

  Trish was never happy.

  He dressed up handsomely to get close to Trish. Over time Atilla became interested in learning how to code. The software self help books generally lay on the floor of Trish’s apartment. Atilla kept a secret from Trish on how he knew major Keski. Major

  Keski, had always planned and acted to control mind of Atilla and also his wallet. He fed Atilla and payed him to be part of the nest. Atilla unable to grasp the bigger picture remained unaware of the sinister motive of a collective wrong.

  Atilla rapidly taught himself to code and earned Trish’s respect. Atilla remained fascinated by the world of mosquitoes. He chose to deploy his fascination into the world of games. He designed games now instead of real stuff and his games became popular.

  Major Keski has secret phone calls from friends overseas. These birds of the nest had a special request for which Major Keski was offered a billion kronos. Major did not wink an eye and was waiting to compete on a international assignment to achieve the objectives set by the birds of the nest. Keski was bent on outdoing other players. But how.

  He had yet not developed any idea but since he had a strong will to find a devastating way to achieve the end result. He was the most unhappy person on face of earth.

  Meanwhile the campaign to elect President was in full fervor in USA. Several key players had started falling ill. These people were key influencers and were part of the target of the leader of the birds of nest.

  In just thirteen weeks these people started dropping dead and no one knew that they had been murdered. They succumbed to cancer without any one suspecting that they had been eliminated much to the muse of some who wanted different players to surface the national stage and thereby have a dent on the foreign policy of the country.

  Fermi reaches out and found that all the dead had a similar make of cell phone and all succumbed to brain damage and eventual death because of signal stabbing technique developed by the vicious and sinister program bug developed by Atilla called Mosquito.

  This software bug was designed to be so potent, that it knew no boundaries physical or political. No one would be able to know when they were hit. Atilla had accomplished what was not even tried by million men in research and development teams across the world.

  He was able to open up the transmitter of any target cell phone to harmful radiation dose that were not possible because of FCC regulations. Atilla was able to manipulate signals of the unlucky chosen few by the birds of nest that much to Tirsh’s surprise.

  She found out that Major Kreski hasd succeeded in taking the fools gold and turning into a shining dagger that was soft and left no trace of evidence.

  Atilla was nabbed by the police and then recruited into an international solider for an organization that was secretly and silently been asking all the people who want to be somebody are attracted by the call of be all you can be.

  Chapter Two

  The Great Leveler