Brother, Frank by Michael Bunker

Author:Michael Bunker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: robot, amish, dystopian, sci-fi, Amish Sci-Fi, techno-thriller
Publisher: Michael Bunker
Published: 2015-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Carlos looks around the apartment and then stretches before rubbing his face in his hands. After three straight eighteen-hour days—with the team doing all they can to hamper the feds’ search efforts for Doc and the boy—they still haven’t found a way to re-establish contact with the HADroid. The truth is, they have no idea where Dr. Alexander and the robot are hiding. The doc isn’t answering his phone, and it’s evident that he hasn’t made it to any of the other safe houses on his way to Louisiana.

“When are you heading out?” Tim says. “And, I guess more importantly, where are you going next?”

“We have three locations primed and ready,” Carlos says. “Junior Johnson up in Upper Marlboro, Maryland has a townhouse we can use. And then there’s the safe house in Knoxville. And my team in Bossier City is going back online sometime this morning.”

“Upper Marlboro, eh?” Tim says. “Right in the heart of the beast?”

“We can operate anywhere, that’s what’s cool about the black hat work. And it’s kind of a thumb in their eye to be working against them right in their own back yard.”

Tim stands up, stretches his legs, and walks over to the sink to splash water on his face. “So, the question is still... where you heading next?”

Carlos doesn’t answer. And after Tim is done at the sink, he turns, and Carlos sees his brother staring at him.

“Maybe we should take a walk and talk, then,” Tim says.

Carlos’s eyes meet Tim’s, silently communicating agreement, and Carlos closes his laptop. He’s taking it with him. Patrick lifts an eyebrow slightly but doesn’t say a word. Carlos knows that by taking the laptop with him, he’s showing distrust of his team, but there’s no way he’s leaving it behind when he still feels like someone, somewhere, may be working with the feds. Telling secrets. Setting them all up.

He slides the laptop into a leather satchel and throws the strap over his head. Paranoia is an authentic survival response, he thinks.

The two hackers excuse themselves and head out of the apartment to the elevator. Once they’re inside, Tim turns to Carlos.

“Don’t tell me you don’t trust your own brother now.”

Carlos cocks his head and smiles, but it’s a half-hearted smile. The kind of smile that communicates the deeper worries of the heart.

“You know I trust you, Tim. But I’m not sure I trust everyone else in that room.”

“You mean my people, don’t you?”

“I don’t know them as well as you do.”

The door slides open on the first floor with a whirr and a thunk, and the two brothers step out. Carlos looks around to make sure the hallway is empty before speaking again. The elevator doors slide shut and Carlos steps closer to Tim.

“Listen, Timbo,” Carlos says, “you and I both know there’s a bigger war coming. We’ve known it for a long time. The hacktivists are all talking about this new Transport Authority agency that no one is supposed to know exists. The one

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