Battlecruiser Alamo: Sacred Honor (Battlecruiser Alamo Series Book 7) by Richard Tongue

Author:Richard Tongue [Tongue, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2014-07-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

 Twelve hours had passed while Cooper had lingered in his hiding place, trying to sleep for want of anything else to do. Alamo had entered hendecaspace long before, and the crew were shaking down for the transition; by now, most of them would be in sleep cycle. A perfect time for him to continue his investigation.

 He’d managed to liberate the equipment he needed from various storage crates, another intrusion kit and a datapad; presumably Barbara had managed to get to the Captain, else by now someone would have come to investigate the changes to the inventory levels. The only question was where he should go next, and all of it added up to one person – Lieutenant Lane. She’d been far too quick off the mark both when he was found near Matsumoto’s body, and when he escaped from the detention center.

 That wasn’t definitive, of course, but it certainly gave him somewhere to start. There was little chance of any more sabotage while the ship was traveling through hendecaspace, and certainly no opportunity to send any signals, so he was unlikely to get any other leads. A check of the armory systems might be worthwhile to find out who was withdrawing ammunition in his name, but someone would have done that already. His job was to do the work that others couldn’t. At least, not officially.

 He turned with a start as he heard a noise behind him, a figure walking into the room. Reaching for his pistol, he leveled it at the approaching crewman, a familiar shape; Orlowski, wearing maintenance fatigues.

 “Don’t shoot,” his friend said. “I’m off duty, hence not occupied looking for you.”

 “What are you doing here, Orlok?”

 “I thought you might want some help.”

 Lowering the pistol, Cooper replied, “I’m not sure that would be good for you. People are shooting at me, remember?”

 “How’s the arm?”

 “Painful.”

 “Would have been fatal if Duggan hadn’t thrown himself at Lane in the corridor. I’ve seen her on the range; she’s a crack shot. She’s off the search, by the way. Captain’s order. Can you tell me what the hell is going on now?”

 “I’m looking for the saboteur.”

 “Figures. I have a feeling I know who your top suspect is.”

 “I think you are right about that.”

 “Just because you don’t like her – and, admittedly, she tried to kill you – doesn’t mean she’s the saboteur, Gabe. It could be almost anyone.”

 “We’ve got to start somewhere.”

 “What were you doing in Matsumoto’s cabin?”

 He shrugged, “I thought she was the saboteur. It didn’t occur to me that she was conducting her own investigation. The Captain didn’t know about it.”

 “Unless he had two people looking and decided not to tell them they had a backup.”

 “Possible. In any case, I need to make my investigation a bit more obvious.”

 “Obvious? Why? Most of the crew thinks you’re the saboteur now at the moment. Whoever the real saboteur is, he’ll be feeling nice and comfortable right now.”

 Shaking his head, Cooper replied, “I don’t want the bastard to be feeling comfortable. I want him to feel as if he is being hunted, preferably by me on my own.

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