A Subtle Agency by Graeme Rodaughan

Author:Graeme Rodaughan [Rodaughan, Graeme]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780994595201
Publisher: System Zero Productions Pty Ltd
Published: 2016-05-15T22:00:00+00:00

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General Chloe Armitage sat across from James Haley in a secured room at the surveillance site opposite the Noodle House.

She listened to the morning recording of the conversation that the Wus and Anton Slayne had had over breakfast. She accelerated the playback on the machine to five times faster than normal, the conversation streamed through her headphones and she accelerated her mind to match the machine. In three minutes, she had memorized everything in the recorded conversation.

Quite the treasure trove.

‘Have these recordings been backed up yet?’ Chloe asked.

‘They’re already on the Panopticon storage farm.’

‘Set the security level to FGEO - Personal Stamp - CA.’

‘Once I set security to “For General’s Eyes Only,” I won’t be able to retrieve them again.’

‘Precisely.’

James nodded, ‘Yes, Ma’am.’

‘Who else knows of this?’

James said quietly, ‘only myself, the rest were at breakfast, I didn’t mention it.’

A small rise in his heart rate on that question.

Chloe smiled, ‘excellent.’

‘Orders, Ma’am?’

How much to tell him? Just enough to lead him to act as I require.

Chloe stared at James for a long moment and said quietly, ‘forget what you have heard today.’

James nodded, ‘yes, Ma’am. It’s obviously nonsense – they believe in vampires.’

‘Indeed, obvious nonsense ... be prepared to track the Wus when they depart tomorrow - do not lose contact with them - that is all.’

‘Yes, Ma’am,’ James said, leaving the room and closing the door behind him.

Gang Wu suspects that Ramin Kain is in league with the Vampire Dominion. He could well be right. There is only one vampire that could get away with such an arrangement - Cornelius Crane. However, Li Wu makes an error in thinking that this is about allowing Crane to focus on the Red Empire, no, while that is a useful side effect, the main goal is to allow Crane to focus on the acquisition of the three Metaframe artifacts.

Is Arthur Slayne, Brazil, and Crane’s super soldier program linked? I must find out the facts.

Chloe paused, reviewing her immediate plans.

I need to draw the Mirovar team into the open with the Wus and Anton as bait and take some heads. I need to get Cornelius Crane to focus resources back into the North East and not send me back to Jerusalem. I will need a credible threat to make him do that - something that I don’t yet have.

Chloe realized that the details of her new plan had not yet jelled together; she felt a stab of annoyance at the promise that she had made back in Jerusalem.

Chloe sighed, standing up, she walked into the operations room. James Haley and Louise Wesson were observing monitors, the other two, Johnson and Higgins were at their stations managing their equipment.

Chloe addressed the room, ‘report.’

‘Yes, Ma’am,’ Louise said. ‘We have something unusual.’

‘Yes?’

‘Four vans have arrived, parking further down the street than they needed too. They are all registered with a local pet food company. There were twelve men in them, no women, they have all gone into the Noodle House. There are no other patrons yet, so they either have a single booking or something else is about to happen.

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