Buffalito Bundle (the Amazing Conroy Book 1) by Lawrence M. Schoen

Author:Lawrence M. Schoen [Schoen, Lawrence M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paper Golem LLC
Published: 2019-07-20T22:00:00+00:00

I checked out the sandwiches that Davies had mentioned. Egg salad, tuna salad, peanut butter and jelly. I took one of each. I opted for a PBJ for myself and Reggie jumped up next to me on the couch demanding his share. Instead, I tore the other sandwiches into quarters and tossed them towards the door, stealing bites of my own sandwich in-between. Reggie loved the game, flinging himself into the air to snatch the treats in mid-flight and then race back for more. He had just gobbled down the last of them when Davies returned.

“Somebody let him out,” I said through a mouthful of crunchy peanut butter.

Davies nodded. He had taken the seat behind the desk. He queued up the last bit of video and we watched it again.

“Everything on that level can be operated remotely,” he said. “It's a security precaution, part of the quarantine protocols. Each of the facility's isolation chambers has a main control room, a backup control panel elsewhere in the complex, and a master override in still a third spot. We don't yet know which of them turned off the cameras and unlocked the doors. A hundred people who could have done it, and if we take Dr. Jayasuriya at his word, he was in the minds of all of them.”

“Okay, but how many of them have spent the summer in Canada?”

“Mr. Conroy, you're not here to assist with that aspect of the investigation. My people are well qualified to handle it. I need you to help me find Dr. Jayasuriya.”

“Honestly, Agent Davies, I don't see how you expect me to have any special insight.”

“Seriously? You lied, successfully, to the Arconi, beings who know when they are being told a falsehood. You're a mentalist, Conroy, I need you to think like Jayasuriya and give us the insight we need to pick him up.” He slumped in his chair looking very tired. “I'm aware you're a long shot, but if you can offer even a slight impression, well, that's more than I have to go on now.”

“I'm a hypnotist,” I said, “not a mentalist.”

“What you are is a potential asset.” Davies sat up, all trace of weariness gone. “This is a matter of national security, and if you can't see that and volunteer your cooperation I'm more than willing to apply some leverage.” He tapped something on the desk and a moment later two of his cookie cutter men in black came into the room. One held a large net on a pole and the other pushed a wheeled cage. Their full attention was on my buffalito, with the kind of focus normally reserved for an armed assailant.

“Wait,” I said, “just a minute—”

The one with the net swooped in and with a practiced scooping motion snared Reggie. His partner had the lid of the cage open and in seconds the two had my buffalito imprisoned.

“Your pet will be fine, Mr. Conroy. This is just so you'll appreciate the severity of the situation.”

“Reggie is a companion animal, not a pet.

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