Actual Stop

by C.E. Albanese

About the Author: C.E. Albanese is a former U.S. Secret Service special agent with more than twenty-years of law enforcement experience. His details including assignments in the Newark, NJ and New York City Field Offices, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and the Vice President’s Protection Division. His first novel, DRONE KINGS, is a thriller with a Secret Service hero and is currently under submission. He is also a co-host of The Crew Reviews podcast.

Excerpt

The presidential motorcade barreled up the northbound lanes of the Baltimore Washington Parkway, the lush foliage lining the side of the road zipping past in a streak of green. A vast array of wildflowers stretched across the wide, grassy middle divider creating a vibrant swirl of color.

There’s safety in speed.

Tommy Evans remembered learning the phrase, but couldn’t recall who said it. Probably one of the instructors at the Academy, he thought.

He’d learned a lot at the Academy: how to handle various weapons, how to investigate financial crimes, and how to conduct protective advances. He’d even been given diagrams of the secret bunker under the White House.

He wrinkled his nose.

But he couldn’t remember anyone ever telling him that the inside of the presidential spare limousine lacked any noise or smells.

Constructed to near perfection, the Cadillac behemoth, an identical twin to the President’s limo—the Beast—had been engineered to provide passengers with a comfortable and luxurious experience. But the sterile atmosphere made Tommy’s stomach churn.

“Got any good jokes?” asked Jon Bork, the seasoned Secret Service agent sitting behind the steering wheel.

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