Antisocial Media (Gray Spear Society Book 11) by Siegel Alex

Author:Siegel, Alex [Siegel, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781304487063
Published: 2013-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Hanley checked his watch and saw it was almost five in the afternoon. The team had been sitting in the car for an hour, and he was bored and anxious. For him, the worst part of any assignment was waiting for something to happen. He could feel the minutes of his life ticking away uselessly, and he occasionally speculated about how many he had left. Nobody lived forever.

"You're sure Min Ho will be able to intercept the phone call?" Hanley said.

"Absolutely," Ipo said. "The Gray Spear Society controls the phone system. We can intercept and trace any call, anywhere in the world."

And no judicial authorization is required, Hanley thought. As a longtime employee of the federal government, he had grown used to oppressive bureaucracy, regulation, and procedures. The Society had an entirely different approach. He couldn't get used to simply doing his job without filling out forms and writing reports all the time.

"What if nobody orders Chinese food?" Hanley said.

"Somebody always orders Chinese food," Ipo said. "This is Silicon Valley. Engineers work late."

Katie's phone chirped. She checked it and said, "Finally! It's from Min Ho. I'll get the order."

She got out of the car. She was wearing a cute outfit suitable for a delivery girl. Her red shirt was snug across her breasts, and her blue shorts exposed most of her thighs. She ran into a nearby store named "Emperor's Best Chinese Restaurant."

An employee of Soulfriends had ordered the food. Min Ho had intercepted the call and had taken the order.

"I have to admit," Hanley said, "this plan is working out better than I expected. I'm still a little worried about the drug though."

A plastic bag of white powder was lying on the seat. After some research and discussion, they had decided to use ordinary sleeping pills as the "poison" for this assignment. The active ingredient, diphenhydramine HCl, was considered safe, and the side effects were mild. The team had purchased pills from a drug store and had pounded them into dust with a hammer.

"It's very hard to overdose on that stuff," Ipo said. "Relax."

Hanley frowned. Hiding sedatives in food didn't feel right and was certainly illegal.

He looked across the street. There was a strip mall on the other side with a tattoo parlor, a nail salon, a convenience store, and a Mexican restaurant. A vagrant was stumbling along the sidewalk in filthy clothes, and he was dragging a shopping cart full of what looked like garbage to Hanley. This wasn't the nicest part of San Jose.

"What's the worst thing you ever did on a mission?"

"That's hard to say," Ipo said. "I like to think that everything I've ever done as a Spear was justified, but there are some bad moments that still haunt me. I once had to torture a nine year-old boy for information. Another time I had to throw a pregnant woman off a bridge. These acts were necessary in the big picture, but that doesn't mean I'm proud of them. At the time, it seemed like there was no other way to finish the mission.

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