Biowar by Stephen Coonts & Jim Defelice

Author:Stephen Coonts & Jim Defelice [Coonts, Stephen & Defelice, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-05T23:00:00+00:00

The complex consisted of two identical buildings covered with elaborate masonry designs, along with a smaller garage at the left end and a number of trailers in the back. Only one of the two buildings seemed to be occupied, at least if the Crow’s sensors could be believed; it was possible that there was a basement level with activity the Crow couldn’t see. A satellite was being directed overhead to provide a view.

The trailers were more interesting. Two appeared to have been set up as roving laboratories. The infrared images were being studied by the scientific teams; there were autoclaves, a fermenter, refrigerators, incubators, microscopes, computers—enough gear to keep a mad scientist happy for years.

“That’s where we want to go, huh?” said Lia, looking at the images on the handheld.

“Dangerous, very dangerous,” said Telach. “Let’s let this play out a bit.”

“I want to get inside the complex before they get back,” Lia said.

“All right, but hurry. They’re less than ten minutes away,” said Rockman.

The infrared camera on the Crow gave Lia a good view of the complex. A pair of security cams observed the rear fence; they were static but had good coverage. One could be approached from the west without being observed. It had been situated in a recessed box in a stone pillar to prevent tampering—a not unreasonable approach, unless the person doing the tampering was a member of Deep Black.

Lia slid up to the box, holding what looked like a large tumbler in her right hand.

“They’re coming,” said Rockman. “Five minutes.”

“Yeah, no kidding.”

“Guards on foot can see you from that angle.”

“You know what? You’re making me nervous. Did you take control of the Crow?”

“We have it.”

“Then come on yourself.”

“It wasn’t built for precision flying and we’re controlling it from here, rather than Space Command.”

Lia waited until the Crow fluttered toward the camera, heading directly for the lens. Just as it seemed as if it would poke into the box, Lia moved the glasslike device quickly over the opening. The pseudo-tumbler was actually a sophisticated video screen, at the moment transparently projecting the fence. In twelve seconds Rockman would flick a switch that would substitute a loop of that image for a real feed.

“We still have the Crow,” said Telach.

Lia trotted down the fence line. Once on the other side, she had to cross about twenty feet of open area before reaching the two vehicles parked at the side of the garage; this was by far the best spot to use to get inside the complex, but there was no cover from the fence to the buildings.

She tucked her gear into the small ruck attached to her belly. Except for her small hideaway pistols, her only weapons were a pair of tear gas grenades, flash-bangs, and a heavily customized Ingram Mac 11. The gun, which was loaded with 9mm slugs, had a carbon-fiber stock in place of the standard metal, and some of the metal in the body had been replaced with plastic or titanium for extra strength as well as lightness; a good number of water pistols were heavier.

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