DBC01 - Polar Bear Dawn by Nicholson Lyle

Author:Nicholson, Lyle [Nicholson, Lyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: amazon, Thriller
ISBN: 9780988154810
Amazon: 0988154811
Publisher: Red Cuillin Publishing
Published: 2013-10-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-six

Margaret Had Been Awake Since 5:30 a.m. She had had another restless night. In her dreams earlier that week, the finger of Alisha Sylvester pointed out of the tar sands—not at her, but at the sky, as if there were an answer there. Then a vision of a polar bear dancing on Starko’s body took over the vision of Alicia’s skyward finger. Cordele had called her on Saturday night with the news and the details about Starko’s death. The dreams were too much. Being awake was easier.

She made tea and sat at the window of her Palm Desert villa to wait for the sun to rise over the Santa Rosa Mountains. On mornings like these, she wondered how a nice girl from a God-fearing, Presbyterian- Church-going family could carry out her life. She had grown up in Annapolis, Maryland, where her father was a naval officer and her mother a navy office administrator.

Her college life had been simple. She had attended the Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina, excelling in business administration, economics, and political science. But it lacked intrigue—she had always wanted to know what was behind the closed doors. The tedium of life had pushed her to work in the Central Intelligence Agency and deal with other people’s lives as they danced with death.

Now, she was behind those doors, creating the intrigue, and she wondered if she had gone too far. She caught a glimpse of herself in her dining room mirror. She thought she was looking old—well, older. She was dressed in a purple velour track suit, something she had sworn she would never wear as it was for old people. She realized she was there— old. Get used to it, she thought. She got up from her chair to open the balcony door; cool desert air with a slight smell of sage wafted in.

She had some serious thinking to do. Starko had sent Cordele a text before he died to tell him that his laptop had exploded in flames. Parsons confirmed the same information.

The obvious answer was that McAllen was sabotaging the mission. She understood sabotage. That was her main business—that and eliminating people. What she could not understand was why McAllen would scuttle his own mission. They had been so close to activation— was it revenge against both the Wall Street boys and her team?

Margaret understood revenge. They had killed four of McAllen’s team. She had thought that McAllen was more mission driven than people oriented. Perhaps she had been wrong. There was something more she had seen in his profile that nagged at her intuition. She had been in human resources for years with the Agency. She had had to read men, especially those put into battle. She always knew who would cut and run and who would stand and fight no matter the odds. McAllen seemed like the latter.

This was the same man who had destroyed the assault on the beach on Galiano Island. The report was of .50 caliber sniper fire, M16s, and improvised explosive devices.

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