Alpha Wolf: A Short Story

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He exhaled heavily, his steaming breath escaping out into the cold, winter air. “Dammit, Andrew, remember where you are, remember what you’re doing! He could be lining me up right now; I might as well have sent up a flare with my breath." Alpha Wolf cupped a gloved hand around his face in an attempt to hide the frosty beacon.
"One mistake and I’m giving him a free shot,” he muttered to himself.

Andrew ‘Alpha Wolf’ Wrowbridge was on the hunt. He was a military man, working in the Navy SEALs as a Special-Operations sniper. He had short dark hair and deep brown eyes. His face gave nothing away, which made him someone who wouldn’t stick in your memory. A constant poker face; and a vital trait needed in the undercover world. Before his secret
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He was located in the dark forests of eastern Europe, the sites where horrors of human experimentation had taken place so many years ago under the orders of Adolf Hitler. 72 years to be precise. Now, secrets needed to be told. The truth needed to be told. After all these years, time was running out...

Alpha Wolf wasn’t the only one here. And he knew that. Out somewhere in the shadowy wilderness was his nemesis, one of the best in the business. He was only known as Hunter X. Very little was known about him; rumours only surfaced now and then, and when they did, the details were too vague. Everyone was told that he was a sniper working with corrupt governments and he was selling information to triads and crime syndicates. The truth, however, was that no one knew. The only thing that was agreed was the fact that Hunter X was the most deadly assassin in the world.

The breakthrough for the intelligence services came when links were found between murders of a businessman in Shanghai and an advisor to the US Ambassador in Ukraine. This information had been pored over for weeks with teams working around the clock to sieve through the details and trace them all back to a rundown estate on the outer reaches of Munich. It was down to Andrew to make his own way there and unlock the final piece of the puzzle. He had travelled thousands of miles, following the breadcrumbs of snippets of messages, and he wasn’t going to waste it. This could be their only

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