Dark Edge: Prequel to the COIL Series

By D.I. Telbat

* Recipient of the Redemptive Fiction Award of Excellence *

DARK EDGE, Prequel novella to The COIL Series, is a clean, Christian suspense by D.I. TELBAT. This international thriller provides background to Corban Dowler and the beginning of the COIL Organization.

CIA Agent Corban Dowler has refused a kill order, therefore he is sanctioned for assassination by the very agency he has worked with for years. As Corban runs for his life, he must cut all ties and even abandon his wife in order to keep her alive. His new relationship with Jesus Christ may cost him everything . . .

But Corban has a plan. He knows God's persecuted need his specialized skills, so he follows a lead to India, though poisonous clutches and a German hit squad are close behind. Disguised as a bearded Muslim weapons smuggler, Corban initiates a rescue in the midst of millions of Hindus participating in the Ganges River bathing festival.

We also meet first-recruit ex-Mossad Agent Chloe Azmaveth and her husband as they brainstorm with Corban about a new organization to serve God's people worldwide.

With Bonus Chapter One of Dark Liaison, Book One in The COIL Series, and cover art by Streetlight Graphics, DARK EDGE will not disappoint as you follow the founder of COIL to the edge of darkness. And we learn, there is no redemption without sacrifice . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: D.I. Telbat
• Release date: Aug 19, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310801587

D.I. Telbat

D. I. Telbat is a Christian author best known for his clean Suspenseful Fiction with a Faith Focus, which includes his bestseller and award-winning COIL Series, The Steadfast Series, and several standalone suspense and End Times novels.  Telbat's Tablet, David's website/blog (ditelbat.com), offers free weekly Christian adventure or suspense short stories, or related posts, to entertain, but also to bring attention to the Persecuted Church worldwide. Many of D.I. Telbat's stories are about persecuted Christians—their sacrifice, suffering, and rescues.  Also on his site, he shares his author reflections, book reviews, writing research, and occasional challenges for today's Christian. His complete biography is there as well. Getting into trouble with the law as a young man became a turning point in David's life. The Lord used that experience to draw David into a personal relationship with Him. Re-focusing his life for Christ, he now seeks to honor God with his life and his writing. There is no redemption without sacrifice.

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DARK EDGE

Prequel to The COIL Series

D.I. Telbat

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To those who win others for Christ.

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Table of Contents

Title and Copyright

Dedication

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Chapter One – The Mole

Chapter Two – The Sanction

Chapter Three – The Agent

Chapter Four – The Poison

Chapter Five – The Lie

Chapter Six – The Problem

Chapter Seven – The Recruit

Chapter Eight – The Rescue

Chapter Nine – The Protocol

Chapter Ten – The Beginning

Other Books by D.I. Telbat

About the Author

BONUS Chapter One – Dark Liaison

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Chapter One – The Mole

Corban Dowler stopped his Ducati Diavel motorcycle on the bridge south of London's Buckingham Palace. He hastily stripped off his leather gloves and pitched them into the water below. His fake nose peeled off with more difficulty, followed by the cheekbone plaster. His cap along with the rest of his disguise disappeared over the rail.

Revving the throttle, he looked back toward King's Road. The street was quiet now just after midnight, but they were certain to be scrambling to track his whereabouts. A veteran CIA agent didn't disobey a kill order without causing panic up the hierarchy of powerful men who could rain down upon him legions of hit men.

Crossing the river, Corban raced his 162-horsepower beast toward Shard London Bridge, doubling back on any pursuers. If they spotted him, he could out-maneuver them on his motorcycle, but he wanted to see them first.

Who would the Agency send to kill him? No doubt the CIA would sanction another MI6 resource to take Corban out, since he had failed to assassinate a treasonous MI6 agent.

Below Shard London Bridge, Corban parked the Italian-made bike and climbed into a parked black Escalade. He drove toward St. Paul's Cathedral, his eyes peeled for a hunter-tracer team.

Finally finished with killing for his government, Corban felt the weight of that decision lifted from his shoulders. Kenneth Whitlock had been a low-level embarrassment to the SIS, Britain's intelligence sector, but the man's loyalties to North Korea were hardly worth killing him for. Whitlock was in love with a Korean diplomat—probably a spy herself. No one knew how long Whitlock had been seeing the woman, but he'd had no access to intel to pass on that would compromise England, anyway.

Even if Whitlock had been a higher level mole in the program, Corban still wouldn't have killed him. Sure, he'd never disobeyed a kill order before, but he'd never before believed in the Savior who had died for him, either. Deputy Director William Chip Buchanen hadn't taken Corban seriously that fall when he'd told him he didn't want to kill any longer—traitors or otherwise. No more spy hunting, Corban had stated.

Now came the tricky part, the risky stage of his plan. His refusal to kill Whitlock meant the end of Corban's government career in the least, but it probably meant the end of his life as well. Unless he could implement his plan on time.

He parked on Oxford Street and retrieved a gray wig and thick glasses from the glove box. The disguise would get him through airport security. London's camera system could watch him throughout the city, but no one would be checking that footage for an hour or two. Even when they did begin to follow his escape route, he wasn't about to make it easy on them. He could live, and learn to serve Jesus Christ in the new birth he'd been given, but only if he survived the next twenty-four hours.

First, he expected a CIA hunter-tracer team to be dispatched to catch or kill him. He knew they'd do this, utilizing any allied country's