Atlantis Lost by Kennedy J. Robert

Author:Kennedy, J. Robert [Kennedy, J. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure
Amazon: B079Y3PHP9
Goodreads: 38730936
Publisher: J. Robert Kennedy
Published: 2018-03-28T07:00:00+00:00

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Operations Center 3, CIA Headquarters Langley, Virginia

Leroux entered the op center, tense, hating what he was about to do—order a halt to their efforts to locate the two missing professors.

“Hey, boss, found them.”

Leroux suppressed a grin, but a smile still escaped as he walked toward Randy Child’s workstation. “Good work.”

Child spun, his arm in the air, then stopped, the arm coming down dramatically, a finger extended toward Sonya Tong. “Not me. The credit goes to the lovely lady in green and black.”

Tong gave him a look. “It’s teal.” She gestured toward the screen. “I was able to trace the ownership, and we’ve got an unsecured camera on a neighbor’s house. The car is in the driveway.”

Leroux suddenly didn’t feel as guilty. “Okay, excellent work people.” He bowed slightly to Tong. “Sonya.” She smiled, looking away. “But we’ve got new orders. Package up everything you found and send it to Special Agent Kane, along with the non-classified stuff to Agent Reading. They’ll have to run with it from here. We’ve got bigger fish to fry.”

Tong attacked her keyboard as the rest of the room turned their attention to their boss.

“I just got out of a briefing. An unknown individual or group has just delivered a video message to the White House. They’re claiming they have just blown up one of the transatlantic data cables, and are threatening to detonate one every two hours, unless we pay them one billion dollars in less than”—he checked his watch—“ninety minutes. Then the price doubles each time.”

Child swung in his chair. “I’ve reconfirmed that the TAT-14 cable is down.”

“Any idea where?”

“Yeah, less than a mile off the coast of France.”

“Good, that matches my suspicions, so hopefully the assho—sorry, gentleman—who thought I was an idiot, is answering his door tonight, because I’m having UberEats deliver him some crow.”

Child raised a hand and Leroux high-fived him without missing a beat.

“All the intel we have has been sent to your terminals. Start going through it. I want to know if there’s anything in the video that might identify who actually sent it, where it was recorded, where it was sent from. Check satellite imagery to see if we can spot anything suspicious around the data cables, specifically around the one we know has been severed. Let’s do our thing, people, and solve this before anyone else does. Just imagine the Christmas bonus this year for saving the world once again.”

Laughter spread through the room as everyone knew there were no bonuses, and they were underpaid compared to the private sector. But that didn’t matter here. Everyone loved their job, and most would do it no matter what the pay was. Those who cared about such things either never took a government position, or left within a few years once they realized the opportunities here weren’t money, but power. His boss had said something in today’s briefing that had stunned him, and terrified him.

One day he’s probably going to be sitting in this seat.

Did Morrison actually think that one day he’d be the Chief? He still hated being an Analyst Supervisor.

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