Hairy Risk Taker, A Novel

                                                         Chapter Two

                                   Flying South, over the Mediterranean Sea

Hairy was sitting in a comfortable first class seat on board Egyptair’s Flight MS986. He was on his way to the Arab Republic of Egypt. Cairo, which is home and headquarters for the Muslim Brotherhood, was his destination. He knew that the Brotherhood was behind the threat against the Chicago nuclear reactor. He also knew that the leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a badie. Ironically, his name is Mahammad Badie. His credo is, “Allah is our objective, the Quran is our law, the Prophet is our leader, Jihad is our way, and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations. Hairy planned to help Badie accomplish his aspiration. Killing the Badie would be the easiest part of his mission. The difficult part would be finding Muhammad ibn Saeed ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Filasteeni and ABD-AL-AZIZ . The potential saboteurs would be hiding among 80 million Muslims with beards and towels on their heads.

Before boarding his flight, Hairy got a phone call from Larry Page. Larry said, “Listen, I know you can dance and I know you can kick the shit out of those crazies but you are going to need help finding them. I know a self-described deviant philosopher software engineer who can help you. His name is Alex Karp. His startup company, Palantir, created the software that our boys used to find and kill Osama bin Laden. His stuff is the best terrorist tracking and data-mining machine in the world.” Hairy said, “Wow that sounds great. How do I get in touch with this guy?” Larry said, “You don’t have to. My messenger will deliver to you my latest souped-up notebook computer with all of Alek’s brilliant software on it.” Hairy said thanks and Larry said have a nice flight. Now, Hairy could use the eleven hours of flight time to do research and preparation. He would be ready to dance when he got to Cairo!