A fictional, high-stakes espionage narrative details a covert British plan to assassinate the Russian president through a deniable operation staged in China in 2026. The mission, led by former soldier Sergeant Tom McDuff, involves three phases: training in Africa, infiltration into China via diplomatic and military partnerships, and a final strike on the Russian president’s office in Beijing. The operation is motivated by years of perceived Western weakness, exemplified by the 2022 spoofing of flight BA236, which killed 350 people. To ensure deniability, McDuff is publicly dismissed for sexual assault, an act designed to create a plausible cover and demonstrate British resolve. The plan underscores a shift from passive diplomacy to active, asymmetric intervention, reflecting a broader narrative of national pride and resistance to Russian aggression. The story culminates in a political realignment, with Miriam Brandt defeating the incumbent in a UK election, symbolizing a turning point in British foreign policy. The narrative blends political thriller elements with personal redemption, emphasizing that true strength lies not in secrecy, but in decisive, morally justified action. Despite its fictional nature, the scenario reflects real geopolitical anxieties about cyber warfare, deniability, and the limits of diplomatic engagement.
This series contains strong language and violence, it is fiction, resemblance to reality is coincidental, this is bear hunt.
Previously on Bear Hunt.
I wrote three novels, the last one was Killing Tiberius.
Killing Tiberius.
How would you kill the president of Russia?
What funny little war game are you playing, Building?
Asymmetric lethal mitigation advisory.
Alma.
Western intelligence agencies are an orthodoxy.
For all the zealots you speak with.
Make sure you find yourself at least one heretic.
Visibility study.
You say?
Exactly that.
Comparative outcomes, leadership removal, regime decapitation effects.
London grad is going to sell one final townhouse to the Russians.
Number 10 Downing Street.
Consider the strategic partnerships.
Once again, we are still reading the rules.
Daniel Massa.
They wrote all these novels, it's all shit's all.
Killing Tiberius.
Having a cigarette.
Cancer is in my pancreas.
My lungs prime in its day.
Three assassins.
Do we need to get him home?
What's that?
The kind of central premise Tiberius is the code name for the president of Russia.
And the British have a plan to kill it.
Which is?
Well they get Britain's best soldier.
The Russian president visits China on a guaranteed recurring annual basis.
Britain's best soldier.
How does he get into China?
How does he get a Chinese right?
He accepts freelance struts up gig.
The worth air of a Cameroon military Chinese infrastructure.
It baits the Chinese to hire the standout bread.
Robbo, if I was to ask you, who?
So would you have an answer?
Oh what's that?
Oh what?
You need to do a little dispersing yourself, Sergeant McDuff.
Doing that?
Somebody wants you back home.
You're my soldier are you?
Sergeant Tom McDuff.
Duffy.
Pilgrim Moore.
Where we had it?
There's Arabia Sergeant.
We're heading to Belgravia.
And we have the lower ground floor.
Swimming pool sauna.
Gym through those glass doors.
And a cinema suite.
Just little carrots for my tastes.
Hi, very nice.
Who's, or what country exactly is the owner?
Because the Burrini flag is fluttering in the veranda next door.
That would be number 30, Belgrade Square.
That's the Burrini and Embassy.
Yeah, I got that.
So, what's the deal with this one?
This one.
Number 32.
Owner, Mr. Prutsev.
Well, tell him he's got a decent pad.
If he wants to do a movie night, I'll bring the popcorn.
I can't do that, I'm afraid.
Huh? No?
He's dead.
Here's a lot in with Prutsev.
A laxie Prutsev.
Of course.
We're supposed to be on the Prutsev flight,
the terminated in a crater next to the vulga.
Huh, you are well read, aren't you?
Do you recall the ending for Slippery Prutsev?
Slipped is where you're right out of our Russian window.
Mm-hmm.
Things are fucking lethal.
So, what we have in our fucking swimming race in here or something?
In September 2022,
the British government sees this house.
You can still see a few nasty patches in the wall
where we search the place high and low for monitoring equipment, bugs.
It's been swept, checked, and put back together.
Ready to go on the market.
Well, they're looking to get for it.
Cut will know.
One five, fuck me.
It may go to the Liberians for a new embassy location,
but right now it is owned and operated by Alma, company of mine.
I'll get you to sign something drafted in the Cayman Islands.
And just like that, you'll be the beneficiary director.
Then, this place will be yours.
Not in the market right now, Pilgrim.
I'd need a few quit to get my hands on this place.
Just the one, actually.
One pound.
Number 32, Belgrave Square.
To you, Thomas H. McDuff.
For one British pound.
I don't think I'd fit in with a neighbors.
Then sell it.
I'd get in trouble for that.
I was the one who took it from the government.
And I could get in trouble.
And you want that?
Doesn't matter.
Doesn't it matter?
Because I won't be here for the consequences.
And once your job is complete, the state will do everything in its power
to bury whatever it accidentally digs up.
Where are you going to be?
Ideally, scattered off the coast of Sussex.
Let's see.
You can see how this is hard to believe, right?
This ain't Bollocks, is it?
No, Sergeant.
So, this house, for me, for nothing.
I didn't say for nothing.
No, Mary and Bran.
You were once a history teacher.
I was.
You are passionate about history.
I am.
Why did you quit?
It's one of the hardest things I've had to do.
But that's the key.
I had to do it.
I couldn't teach what they wanted me to teach anymore.
I could no longer look children,
particularly white young boys in the eye and say,
"Everything is your fault."
I feel shame.
You live in original sin.
Because of this culture, or that culture, or this incident,
or, you know, I refuse to radicalise British kids
against their mother country.
I refuse to do it.
So, to put it simply, Sarah.
I'm here now to make history.
Not teach it.
And you will, I'm sure.
Thank you, Mary and Bran.
Thank you.
Well, my opponent, I believe, is sat down with the herald,
the mainstream media to use her terminology.
She is talking about what's in the heart of the British people.
I'm not talking.
I'm listening.
I'm in burden on Trenton.
I'm listening to Gareth, the shift supervisor.
I'm listening to James, the warehouse manager.
I'm listening to Heather and Charlotte, the line operators.
And I'm reminded by this factory in the heartland of our country
that Britain, too, is a factory.
Every piece has to do its job if we want the product to truly enjoy.
Nobody here is sitting around talking.
They're working for Britain.
And so am I.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
This one from Frank.
He's 82, Prime Minister.
Every morning he cleans the streets of New Brayfree of charge.
He wants to know why every day on those streets
does he see the Palestinian flag?
The Israeli flag?
The Pride flag?
The Indian flag?
The Ukrainian flag?
Why does he see the Scottish flag?
The Welsh flag?
Where is the flag of Britain?
Where is the flag of England and St George?
When will the English get their streets back?
When Prime Minister?
When will the English get their towns and villages back?
When will the English get England back?
The answer?
I'll answer for him, Mr Speaker.
It's two weeks.
That's when.
Two weeks and we return England to England.
You'd retire me.
That's correct.
So, this is M.O.D.
We're going to have to bypass the M.O.D.
You see, bypass, I hit override.
In a sense?
Sounds like a big hand from above, pick him here.
Would that be right?
Something like that.
Who?
Can't divulge that.
It can't be that a wet bugger piss.
No comment.
Don't think he had a anim.
Well, I think that's part of the plan's appeal.
No one expects the wet bugger piss.
He's not to be utilized any further.
We are outside of the system.
This is a private enterprise from this point.
There's three phases.
First phase, we get you out of the UK to the seeding nation for the task.
Second phase, you get into China, ideally Beijing.
Third phase, execute and ex-fill.
The way we've planned this is. I'm going to stop you now.
It's better for everyone if your hands are off phase three. That's mine.
Well, I'm rather glad you said that.
It gets a little abstract after phase one, but it fucking does.
You're key there.
I may need to. to take a rest.
Here.
On this bench.
The contractors I researched with, they claim that men in your position already receive a multitude of offers for such training and instructor projects.
Freelance gigs from other defence departments.
God, I tons.
Not Chinese, though.
No fucking chance of that.
African?
African, Mexican, Brazilian.
Good.
If I was to do a programme, I'm not interested in having my fucking homework marked.
I have to make the decisions.
I don't see clearance or alterations or permissions, are essential of the back of your frago, right?
But the final course of action is mine.
There's no going to be a back and forth of fucking play-by-place.
No chance of that.
You'll be unreachable.
Unreachable.
Yes.
You may as well be in deep space, Duffy.
This must never, ever get back to this country.
It would be the darkest shadow on its 1500 year history.
But should it be accomplished?
A new dawn.
For a new world.
Just this single action.
A moonshot.
A haymaker from a middle power.
Delivered in the heart of a superpower.
They spoofed the plane.
Suddenly.
One of their vessels in the North Sea.
The Antar.
The Antar was most likely parked up by undersea cables, aren't they?
They still bring in a commercial flyer.
Us.
Accidental.
I'm sure.
But the families of the 350 on board don't see it that way.
And I don't know how our naughty boy in the Kremlin was raised.
But I was always taught to apologize for my mistakes.
Consequences.
So I retire from U.K.S.F.
Africa, freelance gig in Africa.
Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa, Nigeria, Angola.
China has cooperative programs and police training academies in each.
Djibouti and Zimbabwe are the most entwined.
But that could be too transparent.
Yeah, they got Chinese NGOs in there.
Kenya in there.
NCOs, kit, bases.
You plop into the deep.
Along comes our catch.
They take the bait, hook line and sinker.
Go to Beijing, get everything in place for. Third of September.
2026.
A year on from B-A-2-3-6.
I drop 'em.
And you're thinking X for late of a port.
Tianjin, I assume. Big fucking place.
That's right.
What's that?
100 miles?
90 minutes from the parade on the Changan Road in Central Beijing.
On that day, at 1650,
the Oddfield IMO class two chemical tanker, Bo Guardian,
will let go of all lines and depart for the Bo High Strait.
Next stop, Singapore.
You can take your chances there.
Or you may be tempted by the final termination point
and twerk, Belgium.
Frago will be with you in due course.
Who's drafted it?
A NATO academic, a US arms consultant,
and an assurance salesman.
In students.
They believe it to be part of a comprehensive war-gaming exercise.
Right?
It will be difficult, Duffy.
Not difficult enough.
I think.
I think, with all due respect,
you gotta go harder.
Huh.
How so?
Retiring ain't good enough.
Ain't fucking dirty and messy enough, you know?
You want the Chinese to see me not just as an around-eye
that runs drills with them,
but as someone they can trust,
one that's aligned, one that sees the West the way they do.
Otherwise, there's no fucking point in any of this.
Yes, yes.
You gotta fire me.
Fire you for what?
Some kind of dishonorable discharge in disgrace
as publicly as possible,
something that would red-pell an individual
into the open arms of the CCP.
Yes.
That would justify the PM's override of the MOD.
I can recommend an angle.
You can?
Sexual assault.
That would be immediate dismissal.
And a fucking heartbeat, aye.
We'll come up with something.
Do you watch?
You don't have any dependence to you?
No.
Not anymore.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
This NATO summit has become possibly one of the most
high-stakes in recent history.
The member states have arrived
and I'll carry all the stones down to this new model.
NATO Secretary General coming over, sir.
Excellent.
Mel, DePesh.
Can we grab you?
Alex.
Alex, Alex.
Felix, how are you doing?
Great to see you.
You too.
Difficult week for your beloved by and my friend.
It is rare, but it happens.
Secretary General, you know DePesh.
Under Secretary for Defence.
Hello, DePesh.
How about something good to see?
And Mel Murray, of course.
Of course. How are you, Mel?
Very good, Felix.
Look at us.
We're not on screens and phones.
At last.
Flesh and bones.
No.
The best way to do it.
I have to ask, can we do this in the room up here?
Absolutely.
I do not know if you heard.
A lip reader says they saw me melting.
We are fucked last week.
It is not true, of course, but doing it this way.
Yeah, they don't get the opportunity.
Exactly. They put words in my mouth.
Literal.
They do it on the TV news.
Very frustrating.
In here.
But, and you gave me fair warning about this Mr. Kernoway,
that is politics.
Yeah, that is politics.
It will be a shame to leave or a relief to leave for you.
Err, it'll. I'm. Each game as it comes.
Of course.
Of course.
Please sit.
Um, where to start with this?
It's the ground moves.
Absolutely.
The ground moves.
And, um. Yeah.
Where will be tomorrow, a year from now?
Ten years from now?
Impossible to tell.
Exactly.
And, er. I think in that spirit,
we want to. act firm now.
Mm-hmm.
Secretary General, this is a comprehensive report here
on the actions of the Russian Federation
and its sponsor clients.
In what we would typically frame as Grey Zone Warfare.
Yes.
The United Kingdom would like to establish
with our NATO allies that this is beyond grey.
Into red.
This is conventional warfare, sir.
Russia are in violation
of the UN Charter Article 2.4.
Use of force against independent states.
This we know.
But against a NATO ally, the United Kingdom.
The UN General Assembly Resolution 33-14's definition
of aggression, okay?
Armed bands, groups, irregular or mercenaries
sent by a state
Stay tuned.
These are the movements of Russian warships in the North Sea, this, the Yantar, they claimed to be an intelligence gathering ship.
It spoofed BA236 and all 350 people on board lost their lives.
It is extremely sad.
You know, there are bodies conducting their own reports into BA236.
They will come to their conclusions as I know the British have.
We are not aware of any FOI from any investigatory bodies.
I will let me clarify my understanding of that and get back to you.
But in short, this is cyber warfare.
You are asking me to take a firm stance on sand, sinking sand beneath my feet.
Article 3 of the Geneva Convention is a strong footing Secretary General.
In 2023, UN's GGEs confirmed that international humanitarian law applies to cyber space.
Rome's statute of the International Criminal Court article 8, war crimes can occur without formal war.
Mr Childhurry, you are not the first to throw war crime accusations at the president of the Russian Federation.
We're requesting that NATO do that, sir, on our behalf.
We have countless examples of attacks on the United Kingdom by Russia in this document.
And I'll remind you, international court of justice, Nicaragua of the United States in 1986,
cumulative acts can amount to an armed attack even if individual acts do not.
You wish to invoke Article 5 on Russia.
An attack on one is an attack on all.
And what do I say to the Americans?
Seventeen Russian missiles hit Polish territory last year alone.
Why do we not invoke for the polls they would like us to?
This will destroy NATO.
What will destroy NATO is if you overlook 350 dead civilians.
Alex!
I had a meeting the other day with the statutory head of the Air Accidents Investigations Branch.
They were saying that GPS spoofing, it's just time signatures.
The interference just intercepts the signal and sends false times, that's it.
GPS checks the time, doesn't know it's wrong, logs it, keeps plotting the route, further and further into danger.
Not aware at all, and the plane goes deeper and deeper into the dark fog.
Not knowing the ocean is creeping up and up.
And whilst he was talking, I sort of thought to myself.
That's us, isn't it?
Us.
Our institutions, our coalitions, we think we've got all the right data, all the right instruments.
And we're on the right course.
Doing the right things for the right reasons.
But it's a spoof.
Whole bloody thing, one look at the window and we'd correct course, but we don't.
We refuse to, the data is surely perfect, the tech is surely perfect.
Into the dark fog we went.
And now swallowed to the black depths.
Felix.
This is a letter to the United Nations Secretary General.
Signed off by me.
Let her pursue into Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Article 51.
Prime Minister.
A member of NATO, going to the United Nations to claim a tech and request countermeasures,
would render our treaty inconsequential.
Everything you and our allies fail to do in response to this action taken by the Russian Federation,
renders the North Atlantic Treaty inconsequential.
Why do I have to point that out?
Why?
Alex, because if it wasn't me, if it was Washington, right?
I am the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
We are a member of this organisation.
Yes, yes, of course you are, Alex.
The polls they can take.
We're not Poland.
Our casualties are not roads and railway lines.
They are women and children, Felix.
What I am finding all too late in my career is that these multilateral,
these super national governance bodies think that we serve them,
that we are some sort of proxy to their wishes.
Their long-term strategies that we'll have to see things the way you see them.
No, no, no, no, Alex.
We, the United Kingdom, do not have a responsibility to you.
We don't.
You serve us, Felix.
You serve us.
Are you the leader of a NATO country?
Alex.
Are you?
In a fortnight, I ask you the same question Mr. Khan away.
Secretary General, if I may.
What?
Fucking.
Just.
Okay.
Okay.
Who parked that?
Did you park that?
No, I'm a valley, fella.
What do you want to sack them?
Right, let's look at you then.
There you go.
Not got a good enough look when we're married.
Hawaii?
I cut the places then, Hawaii, aye.
Where's the fucking tan?
Didn't you ask that when I got back from Afghanistan?
I was fucking Hawaii, Duffy.
I was walking in a jungle.
You've got a shite in your chin.
It's bolliness.
We're eating bolliness, it looks like that for.
I'm not.
Weak Charlie is.
Well, he is needing it either.
Come on.
There he is.
Yeah.
Starting to look like him.
I know.
That's crazy, innit?
No.
Strong jeans, your mummy's got the NA.
It's hardly pal.
You bit chubby like his daddy and bald like his daddy too.
Come to say anything nice about my son or my husband or. Your first husband.
Now I liked him.
Well, I didn't.
How old's this one now?
11 months.
11 months?
No way.
Same as Fanny was.
Same.
You do know K without then, yeah?
I'm okay.
You're doing the proper blankets, innit?
No pillow or anything in the bed?
Tom.
Blood sugar fluctuations.
You read that?
You have forwarded to here?
Tom.
Look, on his back, supine and flat.
It's for the airways, yeah?
You're all over it.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's talking to Fanny the other day,
because her James has gone into army.
Oh, I, right.
She says it was stuffy every one of the PTSD ones.
I said, oh, I, but it's fuck all to do the army.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, I. Just. Just staring each other out.
Aren't we Charlie?
Might take it for a spin.
See if you've still got the magic touch.
Let's have a go and then shall we?
There.
Make Charlie boy.
What does he like?
Plains.
What kind?
Oh, the fucking Boeing 7.
I don't fucking know Tommy likes planes.
Language?
Here comes the F-35.
See?
Look.
Covering his eyes.
Oh.
He knows his stealth fighter.
You should use fat lads and not mine.
Sure.
And thrilled by the fact.
F-35.
No.
Ah, peek-a-boo, is it?
No, he's just covering his face,
because he doesn't even want your shine.
It was a ball of knees.
Here comes the plane.
Peek-a-boo.
Bullseye.
There you go, I told you.
Oh, man.
How are goody?
Fanny was out, wasn't he?
With the planes in it.
And the peek-a-boo.
Do you remember?
Of course, of course.
He's got his socks too, look.
Hi.
His socks.
Ah, that's what mean.
That's through everything out.
Well, you two fucking missed his spot clearly.
Yeah.
Finish the ball then.
Yeah.
Here comes the plane, pickaboo, he's alright. I like him, yeah yeah I don't really know
what you are to him, what do you mean? Here comes the plane, pickaboo, like is he your
step-kid now? You, honestly. What? Alright smart arse, what is he? How would he be my step-kid?
I'm your ex-husband. That's not a thing, is it not? No, Claire, it's not. Here comes the plane, pickaboo.
What would he be to Finn? They would have been half brothers, I.
Of course, half brothers. Do you want your post? It's been nine bloody months since you collected.
Oh, I sure, and this is early arrival back by the way. Why are you back early? I got a call
for what? For a thing. So what does fat lad do again?
Alright, what does fat lad do? He's a kitchen vetter. He can get into all the fridges and
cupboards and candy smart guy. Yay, thank you that's enough. My mum wanted me to be one of them,
kitchen vetter. I suited her for your two bloody clever for that aren't you with your philosophy
boots, politics and business, but you're selling a fucking book. We didn't
bow. Teamwork. Right, this is the lighters and then I just put this box together for parcels.
Ah, right, cheers. So, right? One bowl of shite all finished? Well done, yeah. You're all set to
have some wee ones of your own now aren't you? You might need some women below your age group,
biological clocks and all that. Five AF, weren't they? 15K. 15K. Oh, you caught up off. That's like,
what do we pay for hours? Oh, it was like eight or nine. It's cause there are other
in services that they tell you you need. Here you go. It's called Supplier Reduced Demand Clear,
right? They'll package in a load of imaging and testing. I don't need the lecture, Tom. I've got
the kids. He's right there. He was worth the price tag, all right? Pressure on the boy.
Christ, can you imagine if I cost my mom our 15 grand? Oh, my God. Jesus. She'd make me pay it back.
With interest. I, none for me. I do like them, but I'm looking at a kind of retirement plan anyway,
so. A 40 bloody one. I should have gone in the army. Clear. There's, there might be some
maybe some stuff that gets talked about about me. What? You need to know it's not true and it's part
of someone else, okay? Tom. Can I get an okay? Clear. Just on that one. Just said, please.
Okay. Hi. Hi. You're right. Oh, good. What are you doing? I just can't have your car
part like that. Such a perfectionist. Give me your keys. Yep. You're four o'clock. There's four,
15. I don't have a four, Ezra. Pilgrim. Afternoon, Prime Minister. How are we doing?
You know, this whole house, Westminster 2 White House is the same come to think of it. Has this
laxative effect on me? There's a toilet through there. Same with cathedrals, big churches. I
don't know what it is. Power maybe gives me the shits. So, you're good. Other than that.
A live Alex. In both senses. Got you to thank for one. The zap of radiology for the other.
Did you ever speak with the Pullman Clinic? No. No. I did advise. I know. I know.
You know we can't discuss what you want to discuss as you. No discussions. Stoom.
Phase 1 is upon us. Good. I understand you want to distance yourself, Prime Minister. Yeah, just
anyway, there may be something coming that prevents us heading into Phase 2. That's all I'll say on that.
Not the dreaded Super Sanctions. The Antar has been joined by other vessels, more GPS spoofs
interference with vital subsea cables. So, final roll of the dice is needed. Another final,
final final, underscore version 3. No. Well, this one is more public relations and optics.
Upwoods isn't working. Time to try and influence downwards.
We're sitting on a story that I
tore into Felix Batzing at the NATO conference. And I missed it. We feel not just
electrally, but for Britain's interests that we may choose to not sit on it for that much longer.
And when will your ass lift from this story for it to escape out into the wild?
In the morning. What do you expect from that exactly, Alex?
Pressure on NATO. On our allies. That we're serious. At the World Sea, we take a stand.
And what does the world know about BA236 exactly? Because last time I checked,
we didn't even have the balls to say it was anything other than a technical fault.
I have a 415. And I just need to refresh myself on the details of it, so.
Alex, our friend. Enough. He would like to meet. That's impossible for me, I'm afraid.
The country asks for you both to do impossible things. The country is a few days away from throwing
me out. Because it believes you are weak. Are you prime minister? Because our friend wants to know
his task is being assigned from a place of streaks of clarity. You know this isn't all right.
You know you're a former spy for Gold's sake pilgrim. This can't be discussed and I cannot
absolutely cannot. I'll be with him on election night. 32 Belgrave Square.
I'll be reading all about your bravery in the face of our NATO overlords. All the best.
Alex Conway is a nice kind man. He's not a prime minister. He is a name, but he's not a prime
minister. He is our prime minister and has been our prime minister. But with that outburst of Felix
Batzi, does that perhaps show just how seriously maybe he takes the security of this?
I think it shows desperation. Sorry, I don't really see anything else there.
Where can you expand on that, Miriam? When I go to Washington or go to the UN or to the Kremlin.
You'd go to the Kremlin. Absolutely, I would. Absolutely, I would go to the Kremlin.
So how would our allies in Ukraine feel about that? If they're that upset about it,
they can return the kit. The president of Ukraine is paraded the world over for standing up for his
country, right? Why can't I stand up for mine? Because we're in the West. We have to be ashamed.
That's a separate argument. Coaching up to the president of Russia, people would say is not in
Britain's interests. Why? Well, because the integrity of our position on the global stage is
like it or lump it, paramount to stopping Russian aggression. I can see that you're upset,
but you know, the questions like this, for example, is this why you give interviews to
serenicals at the heralds, for example, and not us on the eve of an election? It's impossible
to get you in. A russafobic start is fundamentally European mindset. And we're not Europeans,
then? No. No. No. I'm not running to be Prime Minister of Europe. Alex Kurneway is, by the way.
I haven't seen him take a stance on anything unless his Euro-lib friends hold his hand first
and tell him everything's going to be okay. Why do you think he's begging at NATO? Would I scream
at Felix Battsing? No. Do you know why? Because I wouldn't even bother to meet with him in the first
place. Nito is a. none of my concern. Europe is none of my concern. I am running to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
"Situation, command's intent. Effect regime change in the Russian Federation using at reach
deniable kinetic operations in foreign states in order to affect favorable future."
Britain goes to the polls. The two old parties facing a potential crisis they haven't seen for generation.
"You join us live for tonight's covering on the way through the North China.
Tian Jing, airport arrival, Beijing as destination. Enemy see attached J2 brief.
Friendly forces near. Probable missions and tasks infiltrate. Assess and destroy by ambush
the Office of the President of the Russian Federation."
"Sundereland needs to give us some indication that we have our first completed count of the evening."
"Also, surprising that it's an absence for you. We could see for ourselves."
"Ond main effort to maintain operational secrecy and deniability of the operation.
Timings, 3rd of September, 2026, age hour, 1300 local time."
"16,278 votes. And finally, with 21,441 votes."
"Please, quiet!"
"That is absolutely groundbreaking in British politics."
Ground orientation. Beijing and Tian Jing are located in the North China plain on the eastern side of China.
Few natural elevation features until the Yanshan mountains,
which border the northern and western boundaries to the Chinese Mongolian border.
"I don't have the talent to come and wendle on this good effect."
"Definitely, the first time he knows what the hundred years defect from the two foreign countries."
The southeast sea is bordered by the Bohai Sea, leading out towards South Korea and Japan
via the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea.
Western mapping and navigation apps are intentionally scrambled by Chinese law.
Road overlays and open source aerial photography are offset by 100 to 500 meters.
"This is just a bad night for Alex Kurnoway."
"All the Kurnoways of this world, this is the last night. This is the Kurnow"
"We are seeing Kurnoway heartlands are being stripped away as the evening goes on."
Enemy forces. Russian. Strength, FSO, SPP. 80 to 150 packs.
You'll see a special flight detachment, six times flight groups.
FSP, 20 to 40 packs.
Kurnoway heartlands are having these bomb threats all day. These disruptions, the social media,
classic Russian interference.
"I don't think it's for New Vic, but okay."
"You know what I mean."
"I don't think it's for New Vic."
"We're dealing with our democracy being tampered with."
"This Russia stuff is physically exhausting now."
Two times or a centred up armored VR-10 rated Russian-built limousine.
Enter with stand AP mines. Small arms to 50 BMG. And roadside IEDs to 15 KG.
Two to three times SPB CPO per Vic.
Four to six times or as commandant SUVs.
V7 up-armored SUVs for following CPT.
"From a little under 2000 for all the flight we've had in the five last time out."
"I think Alex Kurnoways team and I think damn near every single lady in Europe
two to three times IL-96 300 PU Aircraft."
"Presidential VIP transport."
"Desired arrival point. Tianjin Airport 070."
And that being the path to victory for Miriam Brandt.
Well put, simply Amanda, which one?
There are just so many paths to victory for Miriam Brandt night.
Just one for Alex Kurnoway, yes, in more flondant parts.
China. Strength. CSB 20 to 40 times CP officers.
150 times 8341 regiment. MPS 4 to 7000 times public order.
1500 times traffic control.
1000 times snow leopard special police units.
800 times cyber security experts.
2000 times support staff. People's armed police.
Surveillance equipment. Thermal drones. Anti-drone equipment.
Cyber pistol rifle shotguns. Night vision. Maritime patrol boats.
Inner armed security. Lions and tigers and bears.
With 29,063 boats. Airbody declared the new crossing is elected as a member of parliament.
And we are just going to cut away from those scenes and Liverpool Walton.
As we can now see we are close to confirming an election victory.
We can actually now go live to Bolton South and Walton.
It will only take one more for Miriam Brandt.
You are to infiltrate by deception, the area of the North China play.
You are then to find by SS and confirm area suitable for destroy by ambush the office of the president of the Russian Federation.
You will then exfiltrate by deception area and vicinity of Bohai Sea.
This is in order to prevent further operations on UK interests by overthrowing the current president of the Russian Federation and enabling stabilization of Western Europe.
Command and signals now.
HQ locations now.
Coms methods.
No.
Nice bit of bedtime reading.
I would have been seen as politically dependable when it becomes very difficult to sketch out a credible path back to number 10.
Politics is never entirely absolute.
But tonight you could say that door for Alex Conaway has shut finally.
That's him then.
Indeed.
Well that final result and that final huge swing we have to say as of a brilliant pundit.
That does confirm that Miriam Brandt will be the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Prime Minister?
Hmm.
There's a call.
Patch it.
It can't be patched.
Secure rims there.
A global politics we're always going to be.
All right.
Prime Minister.
This one.
Yes, President of Russia.
Good evening.
You're a dire, great minister.
Um, long night, yes.
And you?
It is dark there.
Hmm.
It is morning here.
The new day.
A bright dawn sun.
And the minister is going to be very upset.
Prime Minister.
I wanted to say goodbye to you personally.
Like this.
Yes.
Well, thank you, Mr. President.
Democracy can be complicated.
The voters have chosen a different direction.
They have.
Yes.
They have.
You are no longer an office.
It is wise to be reflective.
And the script.
Prime Minister.
The script.
I wish you peace in your private life.
Enjoy the silence.
Goodbye.
Goodbye.
Peekaboo.
Sergeant.
Huh?
We have a visitor.
Prime Minister.
Not for much longer, Sergeant.
Likewise on that front.
Nice house.
Hey.
You brought your trunks.
Sadly not.
I would have liked to have brought my security to.
But he says hello anyway.
Who you got?
Robbo.
Robbo, why?
Good lad is Robbo.
Yeah.
Good guy.
city fan unfortunately, but I'm a politician, I'm used to seeing the good in people, seeing
past the bad. On lucky a boat tonight, eh? Oh well, that's how it goes. How long until
your call, Prime Minister? The palace are expecting it, wow, in one hour,
Christ, the big call to the king wants to know who can command the majority for his
mind just his government, eh? That's right. Power will be handed over around lunchtime.
And that's that then. That's that. Off to find a real job. Prime Minister, Duffy here
has had a job offer of his own. Yeah. Firearms training, Osaka, zombie and special forces
unit. Zambia. That's right. Haven't seen a briefing in a while, but no good choice from
memory. Jibouti, not an option. Two obvious. Chinese will see through that. Zimbabwe. Zambia
are the most China indebted nation from what came forwards, both infrastructure and military
cooperation. They'll notice, Duffy, they'll take the bait, I have faith. That's the limit
of what I'd like to know regarding this operation. I understand. As the rows between two perfectionist
thorns, I will remind you that time has run out for you. For me, I won't be upon busying
myself for much longer. The Sergeant Duffy here, he needs every minute he can get in Beijing
to prepare for September next year to dismiss him from our armed forces. We need one last
act from number ten. Sure. He will be permanently discharged for two acts of sexual assault. Jesus
Christ. It had to be Alex. The Chinese will see it. They'll think we've done a bad job
of hiding it as we have been known to do. Okay. Enough. Enough. You have deniability
Prime Minister. Yes, and I'd like to keep it that way. Prime Minister. I'll go when
you see go. Right? Green light. And I'm gone. I understand. But I've got a question
first. Sure. Of course. Why? Why this approach? Well, strategically. Again, if the UK
has never held the strategic thing. No point not being honest. The A236. Right. They still
doing it. Yeah. Another three vessels still doing the same thing. Spoofing. Playing with
lives. 350 people for one Russian president. It seems only right. Year after year and it's
just as constantly walking backwards, constantly giving ground to them. I wonder what it
stops now. We don't give another inch. Well. Right then. I need to reply to the CEO in
Lusaka. And then I'm Eloise Rice. Watch my brother. Watch my brother. Tell my niece
Grace. She's five. I watched that. Him tell her that her mum wasn't coming home. Yes.
Yeah. That. And you know, I mean look, they do that stuff. The Grey Zone warfare. They
do that. They did that to BA236 because I'm weak sergeant. Those people on that flight
from the six newborn babies to the ballet school from Cheltenham to the captain and his crew.
Those people are dead because I am a weak person. We wouldn't be discussing such an operation
if that was so. I'm bloody. I'm proud. I'm a sore loser. I'm selfish. That's why we're
discussing this, right? Ah, relatable at last. There he is.
One of one on that in the new world order, I suppose. I mean, probably I. And what about you?
Why for me? One reason. One reason I think I'm still trying to understand, meaning our
purpose. I'm not quite sure. Of course. And the other, the world needs to know. I'd rather
they didn't such. Hey, look, I know how it works. Top secret things like this. They still
find a way albeit unverifiable into the deepest, darkest parts of the contest in the world.
Whisper's, rumours. Amongst the intelligent services, special forces, elite groups. Exactly.
They need to know and they will. A year to the date of that crash. They will know what
this country is still capable of. They will know that if you fuck around with Great Britain,
you will find out. And I like that Prime Minister. I like that a lot. Here, here.
Sergeant McDuff. I didn't want to be here tonight for National Security
Reasons course, but also I didn't want to get my hands dirty, but big, big butt. It has
taken 250 cabinet meetings, 1200 security briefings, 160 PMQs for me to finally realise nothing
gets done. Unless you get your hands dirty. Good luck, Sergeant. This country owes you an
enormous debt. The world will be a better place on completion of your task. I promise you
that. I promise. Thank you, sir.
Prime Minister.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The UK has a covert plan to assassinate the Russian president using a deniable, kinetic operation staged in China, involving a British soldier, Sergeant Tom McDuff, who is to be recruited and ultimately dismissed for sexual assault to create plausible deniability.
The operation is structured in three phases
The plan relies on Chinese cooperation through military and police training programs in countries like Zambia and Zimbabwe, which are seen as vulnerable to infiltration.
A key motivation is the perceived failure of Western diplomacy and repeated Russian cyber attacks, such as the GPS spoofing of flight BA236, which killed 350 people, prompting a decisive action to restore Western credibility.
The operation is designed to be invisible to public scrutiny and institutional oversight, with the British government preparing to erase any trace of involvement after the mission.
The narrative includes a symbolic and emotional arc where the protagonist, a former spy and now a politician, confronts personal failure and political weakness, culminating in a self-justifying act of defiance.
The plan is framed as a necessary act of regime change in Russia, using asymmetric warfare to challenge a superpower without direct conflict.
The story ends with a dramatic political shift in the UK, where Miriam Brandt wins the election, and the former prime minister publicly disbands the operation, symbolizing a transition from secrecy to transparency.
Summary:
A fictional, high-stakes espionage narrative details a covert British plan to assassinate the Russian president through a deniable operation staged in China in 2026. The mission, led by former soldier Sergeant Tom McDuff, involves three phases: training in Africa, infiltration into China via diplomatic and military partnerships, and a final strike on the Russian president’s office in Beijing. The operation is motivated by years of perceived Western weakness, exemplified by the 2022 spoofing of flight BA236, which killed 350 people.
To ensure deniability, McDuff is publicly dismissed for sexual assault, an act designed to create a plausible cover and demonstrate British resolve. The plan underscores a shift from passive diplomacy to active, asymmetric intervention, reflecting a broader narrative of national pride and resistance to Russian aggression. The story culminates in a political realignment, with Miriam Brandt defeating the incumbent in a UK election, symbolizing a turning point in British foreign policy.
The narrative blends political thriller elements with personal redemption, emphasizing that true strength lies not in secrecy, but in decisive, morally justified action. Despite its fictional nature, the scenario reflects real geopolitical anxieties about cyber warfare, deniability, and the limits of diplomatic engagement.
FAQs
The central premise is a covert plan to assassinate the President of Russia using a deniable, asymmetric operation conducted through foreign states, with the goal of regime change in Russia.
The plan involves using a former British soldier, Sergeant Tom McDuff, who is recruited for a freelance military training gig in African nations like Zambia and Zimbabwe, where Chinese military cooperation is strong, to gain access to China's infrastructure and eventually Beijing.
The operation is scheduled for September 3, 2026, at 1300 local time, with the final execution planned to occur in Tianjin, China.
The operation is deniable to avoid international scrutiny and blame, ensuring that the UK government can maintain plausible deniability while carrying out the action, protecting national security and preventing exposure.
The British military is involved in planning and oversight, with a key figure advocating for the use of a former soldier and the execution of a covert operation, though the actual execution is outsourced to foreign actors and operations.
The BA236 plane incident, where a Russian GPS spoofing attack caused a crash killing 350 people, is cited as a turning point that justifies the need for a bold, decisive action against Russian aggression.
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