Carpathian--An Event Group Thriller by David L. Golemon

Author:David L. Golemon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

THE EDGE OF THE WORLD HOTEL AND RESORT CASINO, PATINAS, ROMANIA

Jack watched Sarah on the grounds of the hotel just inside the sprawling pool area. The geologist had made sure she wasn’t being spied on by the one sunbather, obviously a woman not interested in the goings-on with the underworld inside the casino. Sarah bent at the waste and stuck a small thermometer attached to the thinnest of wires into the chlorinated water. She looked at the readout on her small watch. The expensive equipment was some of the only tools Jack and Sarah had left to them after their trucks had been diverted to the south.

“Well?” Jack asked.

“A one-degree rise since eight this morning.”

“Short stuff, they obviously had to have known this was a seismic area, or why in the hell would they build it here?”

Sarah slowly and expertly replaced the small probe and the wire spooled neatly into the watch base.

“The simplest and best explanation could be they just didn’t check. Remember, this area was under government control for close to two thousand years. I don’t imagine many seismologists or geophysicists have been nosing around this region.”

“You mean they just skipped over the land’s geologic appraisal?”

“Jack?”

“Yeah,” he said as he looked to the distant front gates at the milling news reporters and protesters who still remained despite the slowly moving black clouds coming their way.

“What do you think the cost of this resort is?” she asked as she looked around the vast property.

“Niles placed the estimate at somewhere in the two-and-a-half-billion-dollar range for the resort, the castle, and the property. Plus no telling how much was spent on bribes to get the land.” He turned away from his view of the far-off front gates and then faced Sarah. “Why do you ask?”

“Why would he built it here, it’s that simple, he had to have known this area was seismically active, he had to.”

“What in the hell are you getting at?” Jack finally asked.

“He could have bought property anywhere in Romania, and better, more access to the resort, why build in the middle of nowhere?”

“Because you said it yourself, the land was cheap.”

“No, Jack, the land wasn’t cheap. It’s all in the reports. Possible bribes to the interior minister, negotiating with the locals for use of the roads. No, Jack, he could have gotten by with half of his money spent. No, he bought here for a specific reason.”

Jack turned away and examined the men and women walking through the resort on the far side of the glass. His gaze wandered from the casino to the restaurant and then to the giant atrium.

“Do you think he knows about the Jeddah? Maybe not Alice’s wolves, but the Jeddah themselves?”

“Why would he care?” she asked.

“Remember what the reports said about the ancient tales of the Lost Tribes? The disgraced professor in Los Angeles said that one of these tribes was rumored to be carrying the vast treasures of countless campaigns from the Exodus. The biggest rumor was the one about the

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