Target Down - The Ghost Assassin

Disconerted Elites

The news spread far and wide at the speed of a click of a button. It spread even faster through the ranks of organized crime.

The tally of bodies that have been laid to rest without contracts being draw up and sent out was now sitting at five.

Five key players under different families have been taken out by some vigilante ghost assassin with no connections to any of the known families. Raising serious concerns for everyone who was anyone.

There was no obvious pattern to the assassinations. A member of the Romanov family, but not it's head member, Dusan Romanov. A member of the Triads, Zai Yhun, head of human trafficking but again not the head of the Triads, the Liu twins. An obnoxious head of intel to the Turkish family yet not the family head, Ayaz Demirci. A corrupt FBI agent, Sam Calvera, on the Californian families payroll and again not the head of the D'Costa family and now Angelo Rossi's younger brother but not Angelo himself.

No clues left behind to point to any of the usual suspects or anyone else for that matter.

Someone was unsurreptitiously taking pleasure in picking out and extinguishing important people without going directly for the heads of each family. Was this a strategic plan or was it something else? If it was the latter then what would that something else be? Personal maybe and if so, what would be the connection between all the men taken down?

A conference was going to be held to discuss the matter with no time to waste. The longer it took to convene the more bodies were sure to drop.

The international families converged on the neutral territory of Spain to discuss the now growing threat of someone they knew nothing about.

Theories and ideas spinning the room nonsensically and making as much sense as putting ketchup with ice cream as there simply was nothing to go on.

The idea of having a member of each family involved with hunting down a common enemy wouldn't work. It would make the families not only vulnerable and looking desperate, it would take away the element of surprise out of their hands. That couldn't happen, they were all ravenous for blood.

Clearly whoever was dropping bodies had eyes on them well enough to slip through the tiny gaps they did have. Not only that, they knew exactly who everyone was, where they were and how to get to them with minimal effort. Whoever this ghost was, they were trained and well trained at that. With this torment having started off in America, all eyes turned to three biggest families in North America, Frank D'Costa from California, Manny Andrade from New York and Joe Bardene from Florida. Eyes filled with accusatory questions and waiting for them to answer.

Local authorities had as much of a clue as they did and to the families, they were rendered useless in the hunt, so they would need to do it themselves.

Armed with the little they had, they ordered D'Costa to take the reign in finding and bringing in their ghost.

D'Costa in turn assigned the hunt for the ghost to one of his most trusted assassins, Blake.

Blake had a long history with the D'Costa family as well as a few of the others. He started off at the bottom and working his way up the proverbial ladder until he was taken in by the family's then head assassin, Chase Argent, who had not only taught him everything he knows but was a mentor and a friend. One whom he had been contracted to take out after a rumor had seeped out about him and a particular little black book which he had complied. The families wanted that book and Chase had denied it's existance right up until his last breath. Blake was good at what he did, solely for the fact that he didn't give a shit. He would have slit the throat of his own mother without hesitation if he had been given a contract to do so.

He was the right man for this task. D'Costa had no doubts.