Counter-Strike: A Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker, Black-Ops Thriller (Mitch Kearns Combat Tracker Series Book 2) by JT Sawyer

Author:JT Sawyer [Sawyer, JT]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-04-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Natalie Quint was standing with her arms folded, scanning the sidewalk below her office in Langley, Virginia. She wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just letting her mind float over the river of pedestrian traffic as she contemplated the events of the past twenty-four hours. The emergence of former operative Kyle Redstrom coupled with the sudden disappearance of two of Crenna’s field agents gave her cause for concern.

Quint had been deputy director for four years and had worked both field operations and intelligence gathering over her twenty-six-year career. She’d dealt with her fair share of bullshit both in the field and in-house at Langley. Her instincts and gut feelings had served her well in keeping her alive and in climbing up the largely male-dominated ladder at the world’s largest covert agency. Those same instincts were causing her stomach to churn like a blender as she mulled over the connections and odd circumstances surrounding Crenna. She knew of his reputation within the agency for being old-school and had heard rumors about his off-the-books operations back in the early 90s. It was the stuff of legend, things that most operatives dreamed of doing before there was so much senate oversight. The thrill of the chase and working undercover is what had first led Quint into working for the agency. But she had learned over the years that even the most meticulous operator can’t cover their own tracks forever. Accountability to something other than your own rule book was essential. There was a chaotic hurricane brewing and she suspected Crenna was at the eye of the storm. Hopefully it could be rectified before it tarnished the image of the agency that Quint had fought so hard to uphold under her watch.

Her secretary knocked and then entered, walking to Quint’s oval desk. The slender redhead handed her a tablet which contained the image of a dark-skinned man in his late twenties. “Everyone else at Crenna’s office is accounted for except this man, Von Harut. He was last traced to Munich.”

Quint gave the woman a concerned look as she was handed the tablet and began scanning the man’s files. “Munich—there was just a notice that came out of our substation in Germany about a woman at the Munich Airport who was shot. She was apparently involved in dozens of espionage incidents over the past ten years—an Asian woman.”

Quint thrust the tablet back to her secretary and sat down at her desk, frantically typing on her laptop. “Gather everything you can on Harut, Crenna, Redstrom, and the woman who died in Munich. Cross-reference their case histories and field assignments and see if there’s any overlap then have a team meet me in the situation room in fifteen minutes.”

The assistant left as Quint pored over an old internal document about Redstrom’s disappearance in Beijing three years earlier. She accessed the agency’s employee database, looking up past members assigned to Crenna’s outfit who were involved in the search for Redstrom.

As the files pulled up, she leaned back in her chair, her neck tensing while reading each line on the list.

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