The Little Black Book

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The Little Black Book

She walked into the largest law office in London at 9am sharp and told the receptionist, “I’m here to see Mr. Thompson, please tell him that Katie Holmes is here.” The receptionist looked up and said, “I saw your name on the schedule and was hoping…. Katie said, “No, I’m not the actress Katie Holmes and I’ve never been married to Tom Cruise.” The receptionist smiled and said ‘Pity’ to which Katie said, “I’m more of a Tom Selleck girl myself, I like my men taller.” Both girls laughed. At that point, the door opened up and out walked Mr. Thompson saying goodbye to another client.

When he looked over at Katie he smiled and said, “Katie Holmes, I’d know you anywhere, your father talked about you all the time, God rest his soul.” Katie thanked him and shook his hand saying, “So why am I here?” They walked into the office; Katie sat in front of Thompson’s desk while he rummaged through his filing cabinet. Finding what he was looking for he returned behind his desk, sat down. Thompson looked up and smiled saying, “Hard to imagine that the little lady sitting in front of me is the little dynamo your dad talked about. You took fencing and Karate in high school, then in college you joined the gun club, attained Marksman faster than anyone in the school’s history and took up rock climbing where you annoyed the hell out of your father by being the only person to climb without a safety rope like all the boys did. Katie shrugged her shoulders and said, “The rope weighed too much, and I didn’t need it.” Which explained your father’s early grey hair by his 40’s said Thompson. When I asked your father what he thought you should be when you grew up, he said, “A US Navy Seal!” Katie replied, “When they let girls into book camp, I will…. And smiled.”

Thompson reached across the desk and handed Katie a little black book and said, “This is why you’re here; this little book gives you unlimited funds to travel around the world and retrieve the other 3 little black books that make up the 4-piece set. On the phone you said you were free for the next month and so you can leave today if you wish. Your father said the worlds safety is now in your hands.” The blood drained out of Katies face and she said, “My father was the master of the understatement and not hysterical outbursts, we must be in deep shit for him to say that, right?” Thompson replied, “We pasted ‘Deep Shit’ last month.

Thompson handed Katie a credit card and said this is to buy whatever you need on your journey. Katie looked at it and said, “I’ve never seen a credit card like this?” Thompson said, “It’s a Dubai First Royale Card” made of solid gold, and only Billionaires have it and they have to be invited, you can’t apply for it, even Donald Trump doesn’t have one. This card, unlike all the other cards in the world, cannot be traced or tracked. Katie said, “Good Grief, what is the limit?” Thompson smiled and said, “Remember when there was a rumor that the United States might want to buy Greenland?” Katie nodded her head, “Well, if YOU wanted to buy Greenland you could charge it to the card!” Katie just sat there with her mouth open. Thompson continued, ‘Seems your father solved a little mystery for an Arab Prince, saved his life and kept it all secret. Your father traveled the world working with foreign governments chasing The World-Wide Deep State and made the earth a safer place because of his efforts. Lots of countries are in debt to your father.” Katie had seen her father swim, had seen the scars from bullets wounds, her father just smiled and said, “Oh that? Just playing detective…”

At that moment, the receptionist buzzed and said, “Sir James is here.” Thompson said, “Send him in.” Katie turned and saw a tall man, who commanded attention, walk into the room. He had the eyes of a hunter, they scanned the room, then he walked over and said, “You MUST be Katie, I have heard so much about you that I feel I already know you, let’s not stand on formality, let’s go with first names like old friends, I’m just James if you’ll allow me to call you Katie, fair enough?” Katie was swooning, this guy was charisma personified, she said, “Ok, Just James, you may call me Katie” they both smiled with a twinkle in their eyes. Katie looked back and said, ‘Ok, Mr. Thompson, what are Just James, or should I call you “JJ” and I supposed to do next?” Thompson turned white and said, “Sorry Sir James” I…. James laughed out loud saying, “I’d prefer the longer version of James if you have the time, British Upper Crust and all that wot?” Katie with a twinkle in her eye nodded yes.

Thompson said, Katie you and Sir James will be leaving by the basement to head straight to the airport, your flight leaves at noon, good luck, and God’s speed. Katie protested, “I haven’t had time to pack!” Sir James said, “You just got an unlimited credit card to buy new clothes AND a new house to put them in if you wish, come along, no time to dilly-dally!

They took the private elevator to the basement and when they got out, Sir James headed to his car which of course for someone called, Sir James had to be a British made sports car, the Aston Martin. If James lived in America, he’d be driving a Shelby Cobra, no 4-door car for this man. They headed out onto the streets, but someone was following them, and James said, “Put your seatbelt on, we’re being followed, and we can’t be seen getting on the plane. What followed was a ride to the airport that rivaled The Daytona 500 Nascar race in America. When they got to the airport James looked over and was impressed that Katie wasn’t freaking out, she just looked over and smiled saying, ‘Do you do that to impress all the girls?’ James said, ‘We needed to lose them.’ Katie rolled her eyes and said, “Then I should have drove…”

Their plane turned out to be a luxurious private Lear Jet with all the trimmings. Katie and James got in, sat down as the plane was already rolling onto the runway. James said, “Would you like a glass of Champagne?” Katie said, “Yes, but if you try to get me to join the Mile-High Club, I’ll throat punch you!” James laughed out loud saying, “Your father was right, you are US Navy Seal material, I’ll get the glasses, you put away the brass knuckles.” Two hours later they landed in Berlin, German. The jet taxied to a private hanger and parked inside. When Katie and James got out they were met by a very serious looking man, who can best be described as ‘Looking deadly’ just standing there.

When they came down the ramp, James said, “Katie, this is Jason, Jason, this is Katie.” Jason was pleasant and said, “Nice to meet the daughter of the famous Mr. Holmes.” James said, “You’re in good hands, Jason is the only agent in the world with a better or worse reputation than I have, depending on how you look at it.” Katie said, “How did you get this pseudo good/bad reputation?” Jason replying like he was ordering lunch said, “I have kept all of my ‘assets’ alive by killing anyone who tried to harm them.” Katie taking a second look at Jason, imagined this guy walked down dark alley’s in New York for fun. Jason and James shook hands, James got back in his Lear Jet and Katie and Jason walked out of the airport and into the subway station, which was a culture shock from the jet ride over.

Jason said, “Before we get on the subway, take this” and handed her a small APX Carry 6-shot Black Beretta. Jason added, “From what I hear, you’re the Annie Oakley of Britain?” Katie said, “I can hit the broad side of a barn if I’m standing inside, will that do?” Jason just nodded and walked onto the subway platform. Katie followed making a mental note that Jason was not the most jovial man on the planet.

They bought a monthly pass from the cashier for both of them and went through the turnstile and waited for the subway train to arrive on the train platform. It was crowded and Katie noticed two large man standing beside her left and Jason’s right, when she looked at Jason, he didn’t seem to notice or care. A man in front of Jason, reached into his pocket, pulled out a cigarette and then patted his pockets presumably looking for a match, then he turned around and said, “Do either of you have a match?” Jason answered for both of us saying, “Yup, sure do, then Jason reached into his pocket, held it up for the man to light his smoke. Then when Jason’s hands were right up in front of the man’s face, then with lightning speed he brought his elbow back into the throat of the man standing beside him, at the same time, Jason smashed his foot into the man with the cigarettes knee, shattering his kneecap and sending him to the ground screaming in pain. Jason then pivoted around, took one step past me, and slugged the man next to me in the jaw, he was knocked out cold before he hit the ground. When I looked at Jason’s hand, I noticed he didn’t have a cigarette lighter in his hand, he had a roll of quarters, making his fist a sledge hammer, the man never had a chance.

Jason, said, “Let’s go” and they left the subway station and went across the street into a clothing store. Jason said, “Grab a couple of new clothes and shoes to buy and sit in the dressing room for 30 minutes, then come out wearing something new including shoes, I’ll do the same.” When they both came out, they were dressed completely different from being on the subway station. Katie paid for both of their clothes and said, “Now where?” Jason incredulously said, “Back to the subway station.” Katie stopped dead in her tracks saying, “Are you crazy!” Jason said, “If you saw two people running from the subway station, where is the last place you would look?” Katie said, “Got it.” Jason wanted them to not be seen together because everyone, cops and bad guys would be looking for a couple, so he had her walk ahead of him, telling her, do NOT look around, you are bored, waiting for the train, with your head down, hair in your face, watching YouTube on your cell phone, got it? This is when Katie began to see just how smart this guy was. “Get off at the 4th stop and I’ll be right behind you. Go up the first stairway to the right and walk up to the street and turn right and keep walking until you hear me give you more directions from behind you, Ok?” Katie nodded yes.

Katie did as she was told, kept looking at her phone waiting for a train, got on, kept looking at her phone, got off at the 4th stop, walked up the steps, turned right and started walking. Then she heard Jason say behind her say, “Walk to the curb and hail a cab” which she did. When the cab pulled over, she got in and Jason after looking around got in beside her and gave the cab driver an address. When they got out, there were in a really bad section of town and it was getting dark. Jason walked them both over to an alley and turned in. (Katie said to herself, “I knew he liked walking down dark alleys”) The alley zig zagged and when they were in the middle, Katie looked both ways and couldn’t see the street from where they stood. Jason reached up and pulled out a loose brick and grabbed the 2nd little black book and handed it to her saying, “Don’t lose this, the world is depending on you!” Katie said, “You put something the world is depending on behind a brick in a dark alley?” Jason replied, “Sometimes when you put something valuable in a bank or private vault, it paints a target on its back because you know where it is and if it’s in a bank or private vault, I could get in and steal it. But if you don’t know where it is, you can’t steal it, right?” Katie had to agree with that, because nobody would see him put the little black book behind that brick in this ally. When they walked out of the alley, two men came up behind them and said, “Don’t move, turn around real slow.” When they turned around, Katie saw that both men were pointing their guns at Jason and not her. One of the men said, “Where is the little black book?” Jason said, “In my shoe.” The man said, “Get it, but move like cold molasses in the winter.” Jason looked at Katie and said, “Sorry Annie, looks like I’m done” and started to slowly kneel down to untie his shoe. When Jason kneeled down, their guns pointed down at him as well and that’s when Katie pulled out her Beretta and shot them both through the heart. Jason stood up and said, “Guess you figured out the Annie Oakley hint, let’s get out of here fast!”

Next they took a cab to the airport after wiping off and ditching her gun, flew United Airlines to New York City in America. Then they took a cab to The Park Lane Hotel and got 2 adjoining rooms. But they didn’t go directly to their rooms, Jason made a call and instead they headed to the dining room and ordered dinner. After dinner, they grabbed their luggage from the bell captain and headed upstairs. Jason and Katie walked into the hotel room and Jason walked over to the door to the adjoining room and opened their side and knocked on the other side’s door and it opened, and a man walked in smiling. Jason introduced them saying, “Miss Holmes, this is Mr. Hunt, Mr. Hunt, this is Miss Holmes.” (Katie made a note that they were back to proper last names) With an even bigger smile Mr. Hunt walked over and shook Katies hand saying, “Miss Hunt, it looks like your father wasn’t exaggerating when he described you.” Blushing a little Katie said, “You’ve all met my father and I’ve never met any of you? Mr. Hunt said, “Well, your dad wanted you to be an actress, but Hollywood already had a Katie Holmes, so you took after Demi Moore in the movie G.I. Jane didn’t you?” Katie just grinned and said, “I guess.”

Jason then said, “Well, I’m heading out” to which Katie asked which room she was staying in? Mr. Hunt said, “We’re not staying here, you booked the two rooms for the weekend, so the bad guys would think we’re here. We’re staying in a CIA Safe House outside of Langley.” Katie looked longingly at the large bathtub she had planned on soaking in for at least an hour, but said, “Where to?” Mr. Hunt said, “To the roof, to catch a ride.” Katie then asked, “Please tell me it’s a helicopter and not a jet pack?” Mr. Hunt laughed saying, “Jason, I think she watches too many movies.” Jason again didn’t smile, just nodded his head, and said, “Probably” shook Mr. Hunts hand, waved to Katie, and disappeared out the hotel door.

Mr. Hunt and Katie headed for the roof, when they got there the helicopter was already waiting, no sooner had they sat down inside, than the helicopter took off. Hours later they landed in a deserted field, got into an old non-descript car waiting for them, found the keys under the seat and headed to the safe house. When they got to the safe house, Mr. Hunt went into the basement, walked into the basement kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and pushed a hidden button in the back of the icebox and the fridge slid out revealing a hidden room. Mr. Hunt looked at Katie and said, “Nobody looks behind the fridge.” Mr. Hunt went behind the fridge and came back out holding the 3rd little black book. He handed Katie the book and said, “Don’t get to comfortable in New York, your next stop is deep in the Amazon.” (Katie thought to herself, ‘Great, Tarzan meets GI Jane!’)

Mr. Hunt closed everything up downstairs and they headed back up, when they walked into the living room there was a loud crack against the window and a bullet went inches from Katies head and smacked into the wall behind her. Mr. Hunt moving with cat-like reflexes, tackled Katie, and pulled her behind the concrete reinforced wall saying, “Don’t move, the curtains are closed, yet they almost hit you, so they have infrared armaments, plus that is supposed to be bullet proof glass in the window and that bullet sailed right through it!”

Then Mr. Hunt looked at Katie for a long time and said, “They found you in Britain, they found you in Germany and now they found you in America and we got her by helicopter. How in the hell are they finding you when you’re constantly on the move?” Katie said, “I don’t know, I wish my dad was here, he could figure it out.” Mr. Hunt then said, “Name everything you have had on you since you walked into Mr. Thompson’s office.”

Katie said, “Well, I bought all new clothes after I left Mr. Thompsons office, so the only thing I still have on me is my purse and the little black book.” Mr. Hunt said, “Give me your purse and the first little black book.” Crouching down, Mr. Hunt went through her purse with an electronic wand he pulled out of a drawer, the little light on the wand stayed green. Then Mr. Hunt waved the wand over the 1st little black book and it turned red. Mr. Hunt said, “The little black book is bugged.” Mr. Hunt crawled into the upstairs kitchen and put the little black book in the micro wave and turned it on. There were sparks and then Mr. Hunt pulled it out and ran the wand over it again but this time the green light stayed on; he had killed the bug. Mr. Hunt said, “I think Mr. Thompson was bribed or blackmailed and set you up.”

Next Mr. Hunt said, “Two can play with infrared, now let’s take care of our sniper.” Mr. Hunt told Katie to crawl on the floor and into the basement below ground. Then Mr. Hunt put on what looked like a silver hazmat suit he got from the secret room behind the fridge. Mr. Hunt explained, “This reflex heat, so no infrared equipment can find it.” Mr. Hunt then went back into the secret room and came out with what looked like a toy control for a kids’ drone. Mr. Hunt turned it on, and the screen lit up with a view of the roof of the house. Mr. Hunt said, “We have an armed drone on the roof, now we just have to find a target.” The screen showed the view of the roof as the drone took off and then switched to infrared and there appeared two red images in the woods across the field. The drone silently went over to the red images and a bullseye screen popped up and zeroed in on the first target and fired a shot. Then the first man fell to the ground and then the second and the drone flew back to the house. Mr. Hunt said, “We need to leave” and they took the second car that was left at the Safe House and headed for the Langley Air Force Base with the 3 little black books.

After half a day’s flight, they were over the Amazon and Mr. Hunt said, “Suit up, we’re jumping in 30 minutes.” Katie said, “Why do I think we’re jumping out of a perfectly safe airplane into the Amazon jungle?” Mr. Hunt said, “Your dad wasn’t kidding when he said you were an excellent sky diver was he?” Katie replied, “Well of coarse GI Jane can sky dive, but do we have to do it over the Amazon?” Mr. Hunt said, “Not to worry, we have rented an elephant shuttle for you to your grass hut with a view of the crocodiles and it’s the mating season, very romantic.” Katie slugged him on the arm.

About 30 minutes later, all suited up, Katie and Mr. Hunt jumped out into the blue sky and landed perfectly in a grassy field. Minutes later a man drove up in a jeep and hopped out to say hello. Mr. Hunt gave this guy a big hug and then said, “Henry meet Katie” and they shook hands. Katie looked at him and noticed a bull whip hanging from his side and said, “Are you a lion tamer or is that for the crocodiles mating season?” Henry blinked a couple of times and said, “Crocodiles have a mating season?” Katie punched Mr. Hunt in the arm a second time.

They all got in the jeep and headed for the Amazon river. When they got there, Henry and Katie got into the small boat and said goodbye to Mr. Hunt who drove the jeep away. After about an hour of traveling downstream, Henry turned the boat towards a waterfall and parked it on the rocks next to it. They both got out of the boat and Henry started walking towards the waterfall. Katie said, “Are we taking a shower?” Henry gave her a lurid smile, but then said, “We’re going behind the waterfall, not into it.”

When they got behind the waterfall, Katie saw a cave, Henry pulled out a waterproof military flashlight, turned it on and headed into the back of the cave with Katie following walking through knee deep water. When they got to the back of the cave, Henry looked around, found what he was looking for and started digging with his hands in the side of the cave until he found a metal box. Henry pulled the box out of the hole, opened it, pulled out the 4th little black box and handed it to Katie saying, “I believe this is yours.” At the moment Henry looked down and said, “Don’t move!” Katie froze, but looked behind her and there was a giant Anaconda snake inches from her foot. Henry, pulled out his gun and shot it 6 times in the head. The snake rolled over on its back dead, Henry said, “I hate snakes!”

They quickly got back in the boat and again headed downstream. Henry said, “We’re headed to the Amazon White House, where you will be in for the biggest shock of your life, I hope you can handle it. They went down stream for a couple of hours, then parked the boat on a sandy beach in front of a white house made of bamboo. When they went up to the house, Henry said, “Take a deep breath” and knocked on the door.

When the door opened Katie was stunned speechless. There was her father alive and well! She ran into his arms and hugged him as hard as she could with tears running down her cheeks. After she pulled away, she said, “What, Why, How, explain it to me?” Her father looked at her and said, “I had to fake my death and hide the 4 little black books around the world to throw off the bad guys and protect you.”

Then Henry walked up and shook his hand and said, “Sherlock, it’s good to see you again.” Smiling big, he said, “Indy, have you kept your hands off my daughter, or do I shoot you in my own house?” Indy said, “Pure as the driven snow!” But we do have a problem, we’ve been compromised. When Katie left Thompsons office with James Bond, someone put a tracking device in the little black book. When 007 handed Katie off to Jason Bourne, they were attacked. When Bourne handed Katie off to Ethan Hunt, he had one of his little CIA toys detect the bug and destroyed it. So, I don’t think we were tracked here as we sky dived into the middle of nowhere, so I think you’re safe. What’s next?

Sherlock said, “Each of these little black books has part of the code that will bring down the Deep State, the Black Pope at the Vatican, The Knights Templar, the Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, Skull and Bones and Bilderberg’s. I put all 4 little black books in the hands of the best undercover agents in the world and now that they’re all here, let’s get to work and save the world. Katie, get out your credit card, we leave tonight! Katie replied, “Who is paying back this credit card when it comes due?” Sherlock smiled and said, “Spend what you want, you’ll never get the bill, your Uncle Sam will….

(NOTE: If I win, I’ll tell you how the 4 little black books work to save the world…) by Steve Plog © 3/3/2021