Android: Mimic by Mel Odom

Author:Mel Odom [Odom, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Technothrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thrillers, Dystopian
Amazon: B00ATUWVQM
Publisher: Fantasy Flight Publishing
Published: 2012-12-26T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Good catch on the identification.” Karanjai watched me carefully when I walked back into the observation room. “How did you know that Boc would know that guy?”

“I didn’t. I was wondering how the hijacking crew would know about the shipment that day. It was possible that one of the people working at the warehouse could have leaked the information, but if that was true, more hijackings would have taken place.”

“If those men knew they were going to be able to hit Gordon Holder and that shipment that day, there’s only one way they knew he was going to be held in a hostage situation.”

“They arranged that as well.”

“Wait.” Clarksdale raised a hand. “You guys are going too fast. You’re saying these two guys, Ichiro and Begemann, worked at the warehouse to learn about the operation?”

Karanjai shook his head. “No. They knew about the operation. Otherwise they wouldn’t have gotten jobs there.”

“So what was the objective? The weapons?”

“Possibly.”

“Then why not take them from the warehouse?”

Karanjai paced a little as he thought. “Maybe they thought hitting the warehouse would have been more dangerous.”

“More dangerous than robbing an exploded tube car in a tunnel that was spewing atmosphere into vacuum?”

“No.” Rachel’s voice came from the back of the room. “Mercs didn’t hit the warehouse because they chose not to.”

Clarksdale gazed at Rachel, then shifted her attention to Karanjai. “Who is she?”

Rachel started to say something, then held back. She crossed her arms and leaned a rounded hip against the wall.

Karanjai didn’t look happy. “A special consultant I brought in to help with this investigation. Rachel Beckman.”

Clarksdale kept her face like stone, revealing no expression as she looked back at Rachel. “I’ve heard your father is a good man.”

Rachel smirked at the other woman.

Karanjai cleared his throat. “Rachel, maybe you want to continue telling us what you think.”

Keeping her focus on Clarksdale, Rachel shrugged. “If you think that will be all right.”

“It will be. Why do you think the mercenaries chose not to hit the warehouse?”

“Could be they didn’t want to kill the goose laying the golden eggs. For all we know, this isn’t the only weapons shipment that merc unit has cherry-picked off Vulcan Technologies. Or Skorpios Defense Systems. Maybe they’ve been taking down a shipment here and there.”

I followed her line of logic. “Then why go after the one in the tube? That was high profile. Ichiro got recognized, and now we have Begemann.”

“Could be they were trying to save the goose that laid the golden eggs, too. If those crates had weapons intended for the black market in them, and I think we all believe they did, so if you don’t, stop me…”

No one stopped her.

“Circumstances being what they were, could be the mercs felt like they had no choice except to go after the weapons and try to get them clear of the situation before the police found out. That way the warehouse had a chance of staying out of the limelight.” Rachel nodded at me. “They couldn’t have counted on Drake being there and getting the cargo manifest, much less being able to track it down.

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