Free The Alexandria Connection by Adrian D'Hagé Page A

Atitlán’s San Pedro square on the day her parents were murdered there. Years later, Weizman recognised him. She’d become a serious threat, and Wiley wanted her out of the way.’
    ‘So you’ve confirmed they’re in Alexandria?’
    ‘Yes . . . apparently on holidays.’
    ‘Is it just coincidence that they’re there now?’ Crowley asked. In only three days time, the Pharos Group, comprised of the world’s most powerful elite, would meet for their annual conference.
    ‘We think so. They have some expensive rebreather diving gear with them, which may or may not be significant . . . because the likes of O’Connor and Weizman are never really on holidays. Both dossiers are in your briefcase.’
    ‘We’ll need to keep an eye on these two,’ said Crowley.
    ‘Am I permitted to know why?’ Rachel asked, raising an eyebrow.
    ‘Let’s just say they might be a threat . . . time will tell. And apropos of Alexandria, how are we looking there?’ Crowley asked after the chef had brought out the first course of snails in garlic butter.
    The secrecy surrounding Pharos was not unlike that associated with the secretive Bilderberg Group, which had been started back in 1954 under the auspices of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, taking its name from the first conference held at the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands village of Oosterbeek. Meeting in secret ever since, the Bilderbergers had included the likes of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen Sofia of Spain, members of the Rockefeller and Rothschild families, Gerald Ford, Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, and a hundred more of the world’s leaders in politics, banking, industry, the media and the military. The conspiracy theories were rife, amid accusations the Bilderbergers were planning a New World Order, facilitated by a shadowy, powerful clique pulling key economic levers, the United States invading Iraq to secure oil and bases in the Middle East, and a plan to reduce the world’s population. But whatever the agenda of the Bilderbergers, the Pharos Group was far more powerful, and Pharos
was
planning a New World Order. One in which this small group of already mega-wealthy and immensely powerful individuals would control a hidden one-world government through control of the world’s monetary reserves and stock exchanges, and by controlling the world’s major political systems.
    The plan was ambitious, but provided the Pharos group could engineer crises to strike fear into the hearts of investors on the world stock markets, it was achievable. The world’s major political systems would be taken over by Pharos candidates, leading to a non-elected one-world government. A common single currency, controlled by the Pharos merchant banks, would replace all other currencies, and as the stock markets fluctuated wildly, other financial institutions would be crushed and ultimately eliminated.
    The plan went beyond mere financial and political control though, to the heart of society and culture itself. The middle class would also be eliminated, leaving only rulers and servants. The number of children in families would be regulated and the world population reduced. National boundaries would be abolished, and a single legal system of world courts would operate under a unified Pharos legal code, upheld by a one-world government police force, a one-world military with standardised equipment, and a single, controlled, multinational media corporation. For Crowley and the other members of Pharos, it was the ultimate power that Hitler, Goebbels and others had only dreamed of: a subservient population under the control of a small Illuminati.
    ‘We’re all set for Alexandria,’ said Rachel. ‘I’ve put a copy of the latest Oxfam report in your briefcase. The figures indicate that the wealth of the eighty-five richest people in the world is now equal to the entire wealth of the 3.5 billion people in the bottom half.’
    Crowley smiled. The plan was on