Paul Laska
Paul Laska is a character that appears in the novel, Locked On. He is a billionaire hailing from Czechia.
Biography
In 2008, public opinion was turning against President Ed Kealty as he tried to run for reelection. This enraged Laska who was an avid Kealty supporter and led him to launch a vendetta against Kealty's opponent, former President Jack Ryan, six weeks before the Presidential election.
Laska's progressive organization provides The Emir with a legal defense team. After CIA deputy director Charles Sumner Alden identifies Campus operatives John Clark and Domingo Chavez from the Emir's rough sketches of the men who captured him, Laska enlists the help of SVR officer Valentin Kovalenko for collecting information about the former's CIA activities. Kovalenko uncovers Clark's unauthorized assassination of an East German Stasi operative in Berlin in 1981, which is not part of the full presidential pardon Ryan had signed for his friend and making him accountable for murder. Laska covertly gives the dossier to Kealty, who then orders the FBI to hunt down Clark.
Clark goes on the run as a result and travel to Europe in order to find out the source of the information on the Berlin hit.As soon as Clark finds out about Kovalenko and Laska in Moscow, he gets captured by French investigators hired as cutouts by Laska. After the Frenchmen fail to get information from Clark, Laska blackmails Kovalenko into torturing him for information about his current employer. Clark was later freed from Kovalenko by the Russian Government who subsequently arrested Kovalenko. Ultimately, Laska's efforts to discredit Ryan through Clark fails and Ryan wins the Presidential election.
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