1_The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor

Author:Brad Thor
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Lucerne (Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781416543688
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

38

“Marsha?” asked Shaw, after a sleepy voice answered the number he had dialed.

“You’ve got the wrong number,” said the voice, and the call was disconnected.

Shaw sat patiently and waited behind the thick, locked doors of his study. On a bank of monitors next to his desk, he watched an image of Agent Harvath diligently typing his report. The small hidden camera had him perfectly in frame. Three minutes later, Shaw’s private line rang and he depressed the button to activate the scrambler hidden within the desk.

“It’s an odd time for a phone call,” said Shaw.

“This is when the rates are the lowest though,” answered the voice.

Each of the parties’ authentication codes completed, the conversation could now begin. They spoke freely, knowing that the lines were secure and the scramblers would prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

“You’d better have something good, Shaw, to call me this late at night. My wife and I were sound asleep.”

“I do, Senator.”

“Well, get on with it.”

“Senator Rolander, it seems that your colleague, Senator Snyder, has been less than discreet.”

“Less than discreet? Speak English, man. What do you mean?”

“I mean, Snyder allowed someone to overhear some of his more sensitive conversations.”

This admission made Rolander very nervous. He gripped the handset of the telephone tighter. “What kind of conversations?”

“The worst kind. The kind that could send us all away for a very long time, if not get us executed for treason.”

“First of all, I don’t care how secure these lines are; I want you to watch your language, and choose your words very carefully. Do you understand me?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Good, now run down what it is you’re talking about and give me all the details.”

Five minutes later, Shaw’s story was complete. He had left out some of the details, but none of the important ones. Senator Rolander had the picture.

“That hedonistic son of a bitch,” swore Rolander.

“To tell you the truth, it doesn’t matter who he was sleeping with, this still could have happened.”

“I agree, but what does matter is that Snyder got sloppy and now we’ll have to clean up his mess. Where is Agent Harvath right now?”

“In my TV room.”

“He’s in your house, and you’re on the phone with me? What kind of idiot are you?!”

“Relax, Senator, he’s on ‘candid camera.’ I’m watching him on a closed-circuit monitor right now. He hasn’t budged in the last ten minutes, and he can’t hear us.”

“What’s he doing?”

“I have him writing up a full report.”

“That report can never see daylight. You understand?”

“Of course. There’s nothing to worry about,” said Shaw as he eyeballed a set of books across the room that hid his wall safe. The report would never get out, unless he needed it to. For now, it would stay in his safe and be a nice insurance policy. Once Harvath finished it and they printed it out, Shaw would read it over, have Harvath sign it, and it would go right into the safe. “As soon as he’s done, I’ll destroy it. We don’t need any loose ends that

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