Council of Patriots (The Corps Justice Series Marine Corps Fiction) by C. G. Cooper

Author:C. G. Cooper [Cooper, C. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Corps Justice
Published: 2012-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Las Vegas, Nevada

9:52am, September 18th

Daniel hurried to his apartment and rushed to the bathroom. He quickly trimmed his beard and then shaved it off completely. He tied his hair back in a ponytail. Next he took out his one pair of decent jeans and threw on a form-fitting, black t-shirt. He finished the look with a weathered gray sport coat his mother bought him when he’d gone home for his dad’s funeral. I look halfway normal again, he thought, as he stared into the bathroom mirror. Mom would like to see me like this.

He linked up with Gaucho’s team twenty minutes later. They were all dressed in varying levels of stylish party attire. No one said anything about his appearance, but he thought he saw Gaucho smile in approval.

Briggs gave the men a quick rundown of the target. They were impressed by the level of detail in his presentation. One of the operators, dressed in an expensive Armani suit, asked Briggs how he knew so much about the place.

“Let’s just say I’ve had a whole lot of time to visit most of the Vegas establishments. Zeitaku’s relatively new, so I don’t know what your plan is to infiltrate the secure areas.”

Gaucho answered the question, “Neil gave us one of his toys.”

Daniel didn’t have a clue what the man was talking about. He knew Neil was the good-looking Indian guy with glasses. Briggs assumed he was just a computer geek that worked for SSI.

“I don’t get it. What toys?”

Gaucho laughed. “Sorry, Compadre. I forgot that you don’t really know our man Neil. His dad was some rich Indian dude. He built a big telecom company or something in the nineties. Well, Neil grew up working in his dad’s workshop. By the age of ten, the kid could fix or build more shit than his dad’s best technicians. So when Colonel Stokes brought Neil to SSI, he put him in charge of the company’s R&D shop. You give the guy a problem and he comes up with the solution.”

Briggs still looked confused. “Okay. So what about the toy he gave you?”

Gaucho motioned to the dark-haired operator standing next to him. The man handed what looked like an oversized CD case to the team leader. Gaucho pulled out a large disk and held it up. It was about eight inches in diameter and about a third of a centimeter thick.

“This is what Neil came up with for one of our little problems. We kept going on ops where the only way we could see through a door was either to knock it down or use one of those fiber optic cameras.”

“What does it do?” Briggs asked.

“You ever see one of those kids toys where you unfold the paper and it turns into a snowflake or something?”

“Yeah, I think so.”

“Well, this thing transforms into a ball. Then we can drive the thing on a smart phone loaded with the right software.”

“But isn’t that pretty obvious if somebody sees it on the other side?”

“I ain’t told you the best part.

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