Bloodshot--The Official Movie Novelization by Gavin G. Smith

Author:Gavin G. Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Titan

CHAPTER 31

One billion dollars. The sum kept on bouncing around Harting’s head. In many ways it was a paltry sum compared to what he had achieved with the Bloodshot program, and those to whom he answered were aware of this. That was a different consideration to Bloodshot falling into someone else’s hands, or even worse, going rogue. That they would not tolerate, as it would result in proliferation and they needed to be the only ones with this particular technological advantage for what lay ahead. The next arms race, after all, would be in human augmentation.

What was worse was that this had come at the end of the debacle with Baris, Axe and their network of lowlifes. Baris had proved useful in providing resources that would have been difficult to come by through normal channels. The black marketer had overstretched himself, however, when he had employed Russian mercenaries to steal from a Silicon Valley-based biotech company that was refusing to provide its proprietary tech to Harting no matter how much he offered for it. What should have been a subtle heist resulted in a gun battle with multiple fatalities and RST having to relocate to KL. Had Harting not sold it as a blessing in disguise, an opportunity to field test the Bloodshot platform, he almost certainly would have disappeared.

Looking around the ops center, he saw that Eric and the rest of the techs looked spent, exhausted, and for what? An EMP was an EMP. All their vaunted technological superiority was for naught if they couldn’t bring it to bear, because there were no working electronic systems in the target area that they could access. Ground zero of the EMP had effectively been forced back to the Stone Age in terms of technology. All they had was the satellites, and nothing was moving at the moment, and boots on the ground in the shape of the unimaginative but dogged Dalton and Tibbs. The rest was just busy work.

Harting was sipping his third coffee of the night. Each one had tasted progressively more unpleasant. He was aware of Eric straightening up at his workstation, studying the screen that showed the feed from an NSA spy satellite.

“We’ve got movement,” Eric announced.

Harting moved closer to Eric’s workstation as the tech zoomed in on the image, a pair of headlights in an otherwise dark landscape. The doctor noticed that KT was paying close attention to the image as well.

“Is that him?” Harting asked.

“Has to be,” Eric suggested. There was more than a little bit of desperation in his voice. It didn’t have to be Bloodshot at all. It could have been anybody. Still, Harting felt that same desperation. There would be no coming back from this if he had lost the Bloodshot platform. After all, there were other geniuses waiting in the wings. They would not be of his caliber but they would be able to build on the work that he had already done. Meanwhile his own retirement plan would come in the shape of a suppressed 9mm bullet to the back of his head.

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