Days of Rage by Brad Taylor

Author:Brad Taylor [Taylor, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2014-06-10T04:00:00+00:00

45

I called Jennifer as soon as I was out of the room, telling her to come across to the Beyoglu side of the straits. I’d decided to stay right here in the Conrad, figuring getting away from all of the action in Old Town was probably a good idea. Also, the Russian consulate was on this side of the strait, just down the street from Taksim Square. Aaron had said the meeting was within a quarter mile of it, giving me another reason to remain here.

Jennifer said, “So you finally figured out that all of the pubs and bars are over on that side, huh? I wondered how long that would take.”

I smiled. “You’ve been keeping that from me so you could stay near all the old shit. Anyway, I figured you could use a stiff drink.”

Softly, barely loud enough for me to hear in my phone, she said, “I’m okay.”

I said, “I saw the video. I saw what happened. I’m sorry.”

She said nothing. I continued, “I have a picture of the man who I think chased you. We’ll find him. I promise.”

She said, “I’m not so sure I want to do that.”

“You don’t have to be afraid of him. I’ll take care of it.”

“Pike, that’s not what I’m afraid of.”

This wasn’t something I wanted to address on the phone. I saw where she was going, and knew her heart. She would never take a life for revenge, nor would she participate in an operation that resulted in the same. But that wasn’t what I was doing. Well, not completely, anyway.

The fact remained that this Berlin group was focused on facilitating known terrorist organizations that were antithetical to Western civilization. They’d failed with Chiclet, but that didn’t mean they’d quit trying. Reducing their ability to operate was nothing more than reducing a clear and present danger. I knew that Jennifer wouldn’t see it that way, though. All she would see was my bloodlust.

Since I’d brought her into the Taskforce, Jennifer had been forced to do some pretty unsavory things. She’d killed in self-defense, to protect her life, and killed offensively in support of Taskforce objectives when her life wasn’t in danger, but it wasn’t until she’d attempted to manipulate me into slaughtering a man who had raped her that she began to question herself. In the end, she’d deemed the man’s death worse than the damage the killing would do to her psyche. After setting me in motion, she’d tried to prevent me from harming him because of her inherent moral compass.

She’d failed.

I changed the subject. “Where’s the thumb drive?”

I hadn’t even had the time to check the initial report for the operational area, and now we had a pinpoint. Things were moving quickly, and I had to make this good or Kurt would have my ass. The only thing that had prevented a thorough reconnaissance—and thus potentially missing the opportunity to get the thumb drive—was the operation that had gotten Decoy killed. The one I’d begged Kurt to let me execute, against his better judgment.

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