Baroota- the Hunting Ground by Zach Fortier

Author:Zach Fortier [Fortier, Zach]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Psychological, Suspense, Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense, Thriller, mystery, Fiction
ISBN: 9780692651544
Amazon: B01C843FR0
Publisher: Steele Shark Press
Published: 2016-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

At the exact moment Nick was giving Rooney the middle finger salute in the mission briefing, Pat had just arrived at Moses Lake. She checked into billeting and immediately went to her room to sleep. It had been a long flight from the east coast, with many layovers and plane changes. She was tired and had much to prepare for. Setting the alarm on her smartphone, she lay down and immediately was asleep. She slept until 4 pm and then woke up and turned off the alarm, showered and got dressed, and then went over the game plan Jay had set up.

She was to act as the loadmaster for the flight, making sure the spare parts were well secured, the food and water were taken care of for the long flight. No one was to see her face or have any conversations with her. Once they were over the ocean and at the designated point, she would distribute the final bottle of water. That’s when things would get interesting.

Long ago when she’d taken an exam for her job with the Forest Service, she’d been told she’d failed. Her test results had been described as “concerning” by the HR representative. What the hell that meant, she had no idea; it was clear, however, “concerning” meant she wasn’t going to be able to fly for the Forest Service. What it did mean was she’d scored off the charts in an area called the dark triad. That was a disqualifier. She was out.

A couple of days later, a man had come to her apartment door and introduced himself. He said he was there to see if she was still interested in the job with the Forest Service as a pilot.

“Hell yes, I am, but I bombed the psych exam,” was her reply.

“What if I can get that aspect of the process to be overlooked? Would you be interested?”

“Sure, what’s the catch? You aren’t doing this because it’s ‘do a good deed day’ in Washington.”

“The catch is you would also be working for us on the side, flying missions that are, shall we say, off the books. Not exactly the kind of missions we want publicized in the media, or brought to the attention of Congress.”

“So that whole bullshit about concerning test results is gonna be swept under the rug?”

“The ‘concerning test results’ like yours are exactly what we’re looking for, so are you in or not?”

“Yes, but who will I be really working for? The N.S.A, the C.I.A, the F.B.I?”

“You’ll be working for the Forest Service. When I call, you’ll do what we ask, and then go back to work for the Forest Service. The rest is above your pay grade, understood?”

She understood.

And so she began a long and successful career with the Forest Service, until three years ago. The whole bruised peach program (her pet name for it) was scrapped, and suddenly she was out, no longer valued, no more secret missions, and she was banned from flying and posted to a desk, shuffling papers and answering the phone.

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