Excerpts from The Murder Rule, Part Three, Chapter One

This third set of excerpts from The Murder Rule is from Part Three, Chapter One and features narrator Lloyd Denholm, who was also the narrator of Part One. As with Part One, his X-Zine magazine pop-culture pundit ‘boss,’ ‘Cal.edit,’ gives Denholm an assignment regarding a ‘death’ of an important handler within the music industry. The assignment is to find out the truth about this ‘death,’ and who planned and committed the ‘death.’ Was the ‘death’ actually a murder? However, the e-mail actually came from ‘Cal.edit’s’ privacy-security head, Agent P, who had previously worked for British Intelligence, but then faked his own death. The ‘death victim’ mentioned in the e-mail is someone Denholm had met with in the past, which is one reason he was given the assignment. While many of the characters in Part Three are from England, a few key characters are from a fictitious Central Asian nation called Adabustan, a nation briefly mentioned in The Prophesied Band. The following excerpts are © 2023 by Deborah Lagarde.

‘Cal.edit’ Strikes Again! April, 2023

“We have another assignment for you, Lloyd.”

That was the subject line of an email over an encrypted server from X-Zine’s ‘Cal.edit’s’ latest head of their privacy ‘division’—the guy who changed X-Zine’s passwords ever hour. Only now, he changed the passwords every half-hour! Oh, and by the way, he was at one time in charge of changing encrypted server passwords at some secret division of British Intelligence! He left that job by faking his own death!

This is what ‘Cal’ told me a year ago when he was hired. “I cannot give you his name, Lloyd, but we call him ‘Agent P’. He faked his death so Intelligence couldn’t locate his whereabouts. Why? Because he hated betraying the people of his country.

“And remember I told you about how these moles tried to take down Joe Phillips in 2001?”

How could I forget that one! “Right. At his hotel he owned near Buckingham Palace. The night Mark Besst and some Hellyons kidnapped Sound Unltd, but couldn’t kill them. Angels, or something, prevented it.”

“Yes, and when Agent P found out what almost happened to his favorite rock band, he hacked into some Intelligence servers and discovered that the band, and Phillips as well, were being spied upon. On the orders of Baron Torquay-Lambourgeau.”

“Right. Phillips’ own father.”

“Exactly. And how may Brits even know that?”

Just a reminder, Joe Phillips is the manager of The Prodigal Band Trilogy prodigal band, Sound Unltd. In the next excerpt, the e-mail from ‘Agent P’ appears on Denholm’s computer.

So, what was this next assignment from ‘Cal.edit’ at X-Zine? This is what appeared below the email subject line:

I cannot reveal to you the assignment over this email. I will send you a document by certified mail from an address that does not exist, sent by a post office mail courier who works for me clandestinely inside the City of London. This document will tell you all the details as to your new assignment. It concerns another person who, as with myself, has faked his own death. This person, a very key person in the fight against the elites, will be referred to as Agent R. You should get the document in a couple of days, after the ‘death’ of this person is announced on British TV in a day or so. Signed, Agent P.

 

Actually, it was announced that evening on British TV nightly news.

The man Agent P referred to was Joe Phillips!

Two days later, Denholm gets the mailed document, the ‘assignment’.

Mr. Denholm:

 

Joe Phillips here. By now you likely have been informed by the state media that I have died, with the narrative that my ‘death’ was caused by ‘catching’ the so-called ‘plague’ that the followers of Corion had unleashed on this world back in 2020, the ‘plague’ that really was a bio-weapon created by evil mad scientists in the employ of the Novordos, Hellyons and others, the so-called ‘rulers of this world’ led by the Evil. There is a reason I had to fake my death, the news of which was reported by my personal assistant and former butler to my father, Swinton—the man who helped my father finally see the light, repent of his evil, as he helped my father accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior on his death bed. Swinton was essential in having a fake body for viewing purposes placed in what will be my so-called casket to ‘prove’ I am dead. The lying media that is controlled by those who took nearly all of my father’s insane wealth away from him, the late infamous Mark Besst having been among them. But now I am living in a flat that Swinton rents (using salary I pay him) in Camden. Being my legal ‘heir,’ Swinton now controls my bank accounts.

I have dyed my hair purple and have had melanin therapy to somewhat darken my skin color so that I no longer look anything like the old Joe Phillips, and only close confidants will know who I am now. In other words, I am hiding. Why? Because I am working on a project to reveal all the evil plots and plans the so-called rulers of this world are working tirelessly to turn the Earth into a true Hell over the next seven years as their 2030 Agenda calls for. It is a follow up of sorts to that expose’ book I wrote in 2011, but much more detailed. As a believer in Christ and an insider who is really an outsider, it is my duty to inform the people of this world what the Evil had planned for them, and hopefully, as with myself, my father, my ‘boys’—that is, Sound Unltd—the elites, too, will do the right thing and turn to Christ and repent as well. Hopefully, by exposing their evil deeds, these villains, too, will repent and not spend eternity in the Abyss with Corion gnawing their bones forever, as the saying goes.

Here is your assignment, to be reported in X-Zine: to ‘verify’ my ‘death’ by exposing the doers of this ‘death,’ their bogus plague and the so-called ‘injection’ that not only does not cure the ‘plague’ but is a medical toxin as you may have already surmised, and their various plans to enslave the people of Earth for their evil so-called ‘god’ who controls them. You are not to inform anyone that I am still alive. If we need to meet for the sake of your assignment, Agent P will inform you of when and where we will meet. Please accept the assignment for X-Zine—Joe Phillips, Agent R.

Denholm accepted the assignment. Chapter Two of Part Three features a meeting he had with Phillips in NYC during the prodigal band’s tour there.

Sometime in September, The Murder Rule will be uploaded to this site as a FREE PDF. Prior to that, the Copyright Division of the Library of Congress will receive a copy.

Future posts will also feature a ‘manual’ I am still working on dealing with ‘talent’ for a ‘mission.’ Because in these times of chaos and troubles, it seems the ‘times’ are getting shorter.

Use the menu above to download The Prodigal Band free PDF, purchase books, read snippet posts from the trilogy and The Murder Rule, and more. Cheers!

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Author: deborahlagarde

Born on Long Island, NY, in 1952, now live in the mountains of far west Texas. Began writing fiction stories at about 8 years old with pen and loose leaf paper, and created the characters in my Prodigal Band Trilogy as a teenager. From the 70s to the 90s I created the scenario which I believe was inspired. While bringing up and home schooling my two children I continued to work on the novels and published "Battle of the Band" in 1996 and "The Prophesied Band" in 1998. Took off the next several years to complete home schooling and also working as an office manager for the local POA. In 2016, I retired, then resumed The Prodigal Band, a FREE PDF book that tells the whole story to its glorious end. Hint: I'm a true believer in Christ and I'm on a mission from God, writing to future believers, not preaching to the choir. God gave me a talent and, like the band in my books, I am using that talent for His glory, not mine (and, like me, the band is on its own journey, only fictional.) I also wrote for my college newspaper and headed up production, was a columnist in a local newspaper in the early 2000s, and wrote for and edited "Log of the Trail," the news letter for the Texas Mountain Trail Writers, and wrote for and edited it's yearly catalog of writings, "Chaos West of the Pecos." OmegaBooks is my self-publishing sole proprietorship company founded in 1995. Other jobs included teaching secondary math, health aide, office worker, assembly line work, and free-lance writing and bookkeeping,much of it while home schooling.

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