Code: Team Zebra

CODE: TEAM ZEBRA Synopsis By Dale Greenwell Martin Houseman is one of a small group of selected Special Ops veterans secretly organized by Senator Stranton and financed through funds from a pretended project that leaves no paper trail. The group code-named Zebra functions covertly to eliminate threats to national security, including drug cartels and their beneficiaries within American political and legal institutions. A mysterious informant, known only as Iceman, has surfaced. His contact with the “project” concerns an event about to take place in the D. C. area. Ben Halter agrees to a rendezvous with Iceman in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where he expects to receive an envelope with details of “grave importance.” He and the Iceman are assassinated and the envelope vanishes during a snowstorm. Determined to solve the mysteries while avenging Ben’s death, Martin abandons critical assignments. Assisted by Chuck, another Zebra, they identify two probable witnesses who were hunting in the area at the time of the crime. Locating one couple in California, Chuck stumbles into a situation with dire consequences. With the help of Gertrude at the clandestine operations center in Arlington, Virginia, Martin finds the second couple, Jim and Kay Bankston, in Lake Tahoe and arranges witness protection for them as he continues pursuit of the assassins. But protection collapses as agents are mysteriously disposed. Despite aliases and continuous flight across the country, the Bankstons whereabouts are continuously tracked; still they manage to stay a step ahead of their pursuers—except for a forced highway accident intended to eliminate them. Broken up, they survive plots and continue their run for home. Meanwhile, Zebra is involved in two previously planned strikes against cartels and their American affiliates—including members of the judicial system. Despite warnings, the Bankstons return to Lake Tahoe. Martin, meanwhile, has located a brother of the Iceman who shares his concern about the brother’s last trip to an experimental lab in the mountains by the lake in Wyoming. Martin also escapes death by fire that introduces a clue in the case: He, too, is on someone’s hit list. He and Iceman’s brother agree to meet at the lab in the mountains near Jackson Hole. There, Martin discovers disturbing answers—especially about the assassination of the senator’s late son and the reason for the Iceman’s death. And in the shadows men are awaiting him. He’s tired and ready to return to Shirley. The men in the shadows are not interested in Martin’s love. He has to be put away. In the course of the story, the characters share with readers the beauty and exotic features below the Tetons and in Jackson Hole—that local folks call “home.”