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    Jacksonville Jack 6: Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1
    Jacksonville Jack 6: Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1
    Jacksonville Jack 6: Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1
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    Jacksonville Jack 6: Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1

    By Mike Ward

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    FBI Agent Pete Neal has a serial killer to catch. Jacksonville Jack has murdered more than thirty-five women in four cities. In previous existences Jacksonville Jack has been Seattle Sidney, St. Louis Lenny and Baltimore Bertie. Although the names sound like a joke this man is anything but a joker. He kills ten women in each city and then moves on.

    There have been a lot of articles lately asking why the police and FBI haven't caught Jack and the heat is on. Not only the Jacksonville papers but also the national papers are running stories on the case and Jack has even pulled up a British newspaper online to find himself reading a psychological profile written by a female British profiler describing America's most notorious serial killer. The British woman was wrong on many counts but had scored direct hits in two areas. One of those had worried Jack and the other one had seriously pissed him off. He has promised himself the head of the British profiler if he can get it.

    Jack is showering and then he is on a hunting trip to Skyline Drive. He will be staying in Front Royal and each day he will check out Skyline Drive and the Appalachian Trail. Lying on Jack's bed is an exact copy of a uniform for a male worker in Skyline Drive. Jack made that costume himself from photos taken in Skyline Drive and from internet research. That uniform gives him the ability to be in many places in the park that an ordinary male hiker cannot be.

    In Jack's orbit in the forthcoming week will be two women with relationship problems moving toward a final argument and eventual breakup, a Swedish woman on a final trip before she settles down, a nuclear scientist with high functioning Asperger's syndrome and a couple who are both married but not to each other. Jack is struggling with the personalities of both Baltimore Bertie and Seattle Sidney who were once in the background but are now keen to come to the forefront and get involved in the hunt.

    Read on and find out who dies first. Will any of the women escape or will Jack take them all down?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Ward
    Release dateJun 5, 2016
    ISBN9781311021601
    Jacksonville Jack 6: Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1
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    Mike Ward

    Mike Ward was born in Glasgow, Scotland and currently lives in Florida, United States with his wife and two children. He is the author of two novels, two non-fiction books and six series of novellas:Parallel Realities seriesThe House on Mars seriesJacksonville Jack seriesStephen Haggerty Assassin seriesLisa Molin Assassin seriesDangerous Scotsman seriesHe is also the author of 60 short stories and novellas

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      Jacksonville Jack 6 - Mike Ward

      Jacksonville Jack 6 - Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1

      by Mike Ward

      (Author of The Banker With a Face Full of Evil)

      Copyright 2016 Mike Ward

      Published by Mike Ward at Smashwords

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      Jacksonville Jack 6 - Jack Goes Hunting on Skyline Drive - Part 1

      Jacksonville Jack was showering. In one hour he would be heading north. There had been a lot of articles lately asking why the police and FBI hadn't caught Jack and the heat was on. Not only the Jacksonville papers but also the national papers were running stories on the case and Jack had even pulled up a British newspaper online to find himself reading a psychological profile written by a female British profiler describing America's most notorious serial killer. The British woman had been wrong on many counts but had scored direct hits in two areas. One of those had worried Jack and the other one had seriously pissed him off. The British woman had finished off by saying that the reason Jacksonville Jack didn't have sex with his victims was likely due to erectile dysfunction issues. That was not true at all; the real reason was that Jack was fascinated by DNA analysis and it was only a matter of time before DNA analysis would give more and more clues as to what the owner of the DNA looked like. They already knew for example that the Northern Neanderthal had evolved red hair and that the Neanderthal red hair gene was on the same chromosome as the red hair gene for modern man but was actually in a different place and they had done that by pulling gene splices out of skeletons more than 40,000 years old. What really worried Jack was that it would not be long before they could say what country an American's ancestors came from. Most of his great grandparents were from Scandinavia but two of them were from Iran and he might well be one of the few men in America with that kind of genetic lineup and that information had to be in databases somewhere if the FBI began looking actively for a man like that. So that was the reason Jack's DNA would never get anywhere near one of his victims. His kill scenes were as clean as most operating theaters.

      He was still angry about that article and he had promised himself the British profiler's head if he ever got the chance. For a moment he saw himself sitting opposite the profiler or better still sitting astride her chest with her tied by the arms to her own bed. At that point he would tell her exactly what she had gotten right in his profile and then he would tell her what she had gotten wrong. Then he would ask her how she thought he would kill her since she seemed to be such an expert on him. The thought made him feel good but if he ever did take a trip to Britain to do that then there was no way that profiler could be killed by Jacksonville Jack. The body would have to disappear or it would have to appear that a Brit had killed her because he would be on the flight lists of people who had flown into the UK around the time the profiler was murdered and if they ever suspected the profiler was killed by Jacksonville Jack then every American would be a suspect. They had asked the British profiler what she thought of the theory that Jacksonville Jack could be a woman. That theory had been discussed at the FBI for the exact reason that Jack did not have sex with his victims. Instead of considering the theory the British profiler had said flat out in a television interview that there was no way it could be a woman but had not backed that up with the reason why. Jack would ask her that himself when they spoke. Her book would be Tent Life in Siberia.

      Jack paused and looked at his face in the mirror. It appeared that his mind was playing with the idea of making the British profiler a victim and for a second he could feel all three of them inside him. Both Seattle Sidney and Baltimore Bertie were really angry about the profiler but they had been his more violent incarnations. St. Louis Lenny had been more laid back and in some ways calmer than Jack was. Lenny had been a careful planner and had never lost control, not once. This may have been a reaction to Seattle Sidney who had been getting way out of control towards the end of the Seattle period. Jack knew that somewhere inside him was a master personality that was in control of everything. That personality hid in the background and none of them had access to it but Jack knew that the main personality had a very strong survival instinct.

      Lying on Jack's bed was an exact copy of a uniform for a male worker in Skyline Drive National Park. Jack had made that costume himself from photos taken in Skyline Drive and from internet research. That uniform gave him the ability to be in many places in the park that an ordinary male hiker could not be. Jack also had a copy of a ranger uniform but if he ran into another ranger while in costume he did not want to be in the position where another ranger did not recognize him. In many ways it was easier to be just a normal worker and in that situation he could get away with saying he had only started a week ago or he had come in from another area.

      As Jack soaped his chest his thoughts turned to FBI agent Molly Syracuse. Jack had studied Molly Syracuse very carefully as he always did with the law enforcement officials who hunted him but in her case there was a kind of fascination there. A part of him really wanted to add Molly Syracuse to his collection but there was no book assigned to her so he knew that could never be. Perhaps that was a block on the part of the main personality because if he killed Molly then Jack knew that Pete Neal would hunt him to the ends of the Earth. Right on Pete Neal's heels would be the whole of the FBI because kill one of their own and they would hunt you till the day you die. It ought to be inevitable that he was caught one day but then again was it?

      Jack put that thought from his mind, he did not need to be thinking like that. It was time for a trip out of state. It had been a while since his trip to Helen in Georgia and he was ready to kill again. When he went out of state he never killed women in a way that could tie the victims to Jacksonville Jack. Helen in Georgia was a copy of a Bavarian town and as you went round a curve in the road and came upon the town you might as well have been in Bavaria. The flag of the Deutschland Bundesrepublik was everywhere in Helen, in fact, there were probably more German flags than there were American flags as the German flag flew from almost every building. It had been successful for a small town that had been heading for bankruptcy in the 1960s; Helen's last upgrade had cost millions of dollars and there were very few towns in Georgia, if any, that had that kind of money to spend on a facelift.

      Jack had left a dead Ukrainian woman tied naked to a tree in the forest near Helen. He might well do the same thing on Skyline Drive, in fact he was actively looking to do the same thing on Skyline Drive. If Jack had his way he would like to leave five or six women tied to trees in the Skyline Drive area but that wasn't going to happen. Seattle Sidney had been planning a rampage like that towards the end and Jack suspected that was one reason why Sidney had been retired and St. Louis Lenny had been created. Sidney was still there in the background and Jack knew that if Sidney had his way there would have been a trail of bodies on the road between Jacksonville and Virginia on the drive up there. As long as Jack showed restraint he felt that maybe he could beat the limit of ten women the main personality seemed to have imposed on the other personalities before they were retired. Jack wondered how he would feel after he had killed victim number nine in Jacksonville. Would he be reluctant to kill number ten knowing that she would be his last kill? He didn't know the answer to that. In the background, in his mind, was the hope that if he showed a certain amount of restraint that the main personality would let him carry on a little longer. He really didn't want to be in the background watching another version of himself killing women in another city.

      Malin Neuer was standing at a booth in the immigration line at Dulles Airport outside Washington D.C. The man in front of her stepped forward and then it was her turn. She handed her passport to the US immigration officer. His eyes flicked to hers and he studied her carefully. His glance was somewhat intimidating but then it was meant to be. Malin had arrived forty minutes earlier on a KLM flight from Amsterdam in Holland. Earlier that day she had flown from Arlanda Airport in Stockholm, Sweden to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. She was tired but she was happy to be in the

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