A Memory in the Black (The New Aeneid Cycle) by Munz Michael G

Author:Munz, Michael G. [Munz, Michael G.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Michael G. Munz
Published: 2013-08-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 28

"Talk."

"Talk? Just a while ago you told me to shut up and hung up on me. Should I infer that you don't wish to withdraw from our little venture after all?"

"I was busy. And you vanished on me last week."

"My dear Diomedes, I was doing some checking on you. When one's partner chooses to assassinate someone vital to that very partnership—"

"That was supposed to be a straight merc job. First I heard he was yours was when you told me just now. News said he was ESA."

"He was not mine, but we needed him. There was vital information in those brains you splattered across the pavement."

"Shot him in the chest. You never said a word about that guy. How the hell could I know who he was?"

"Still, one wonders at the coincidence of your eliminating the one man we need?"

"It was a set-up. I'm taking care of the problem."

"A set-up by whom?"

"I said I'm taking care of it."

"By whom?"

"Screw you. You keep your secrets, I keep mine. Don't forget what I've got on you."

A chuckle. "Well now, it would seem we both have a bit of leverage on each other, wouldn't you say? I'd have very little trouble locating someone who'd like to know how to find you, should it come to that."

"Keep your end of the bargain and we don't have any trouble. I didn't know who the guy was."

"Oh, if I didn't believe that, we wouldn't still be speaking. Yet the fact remains that we now have something of a problem."

"How much of a problem?"

"We have the lunar coordinates. I've finessed slipping you into a black ops niche that will get you up there for me—"

"You did that faster, we'd be done with this by now."

"Ah yes, because pulling together a black op using company resources without their actually knowing about it is just such a simple thing."

"Your problem, not mine."

"My problems are your problems, my dear Diomedes. Or, ah, do you prefer 'Malcolm?'"

"You don't use that name for me. Ever."

"As you like. But as I said, my problems are your problems, assuming you still want this to turn out well. And profitably."

There was no response.

"Silence speaks volumes, my dear Diomedes. As I was saying, I've arranged to get you there so you might fulfill your part of the bargain. What we now lack, thanks to you, is intelligence regarding the systems up there."

"I'll take care of that when you get me there."

"Oh, you'll take care of that, will you? You'll be planting a leech transmitter into their network. It has to be configured so they don't find it the second you get it in place. You can't beat that sort of information out of someone, you know."

"There's a way."

"Oh, I see. And when the person with the information is behind a security airlock and you're sitting outside without an entry code? Surely even you can see our difficulty."

"Plans are your department. Solve it. And get the heat off my back."

"Oh, the heat is your own doing. Even if I could fix that, why would I discard such a means to influence you? As for the rest.

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