Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Author:Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
ISBN: 111-1-11-111111-1
Publisher: Exile Editions

GROUND ZERO: SAINTE-ANNE-DE-BELLEVUE

Claude Lalumière

From her office window, Agent Parinita Gupta can see both the Jacques Cartier Bridge to the east and the Victoria Bridge to the southwest. Even without her binoculars, it’s obvious the situation is chaotic. The pictures and videos from the West Island went viral even before the federal government gave the okay to evacuate the Island of Montreal and blow up all the remaining bridges and tunnels. Every access off the island west of the Decarie Expressway had already been bombed by the military the previous day. There’s no way everyone will be able to drive off the island before the deadline. Not a chance in Hell. Even with all the metro, suburban, and Via trains commandeered and diverted to evacuate the maximum amount of people to the east, south, and north, there’ll still be hundreds of thousands stuck on the island; evacuation will have to continue by boat and aircraft. Thankfully it’s not her job to figure out the logistics of that. Her task is to help implement the directives once the big brains figure it all out. Which is why she was left behind in the Montreal office of CSIS with a skeleton crew of four other agents.

There’s a knock at her door. She looks at her watch before peeking at who’s there. Less than twenty minutes left before they cut off all road access to and from the island.

“Nita – there’s a guy here. A student. Says he has info about the cows.” Cows, she thinks. Her aunt Padma would be both horrified and smug, railing that it was Kamadhenu the cow goddess wreaking vengeance against the Western world for the industrial farming of cows.

“Gilles – I don’t have time to deal with crackpots.” She turns back to stare at the bridges, counting down time in her head.

“Yeah, but I checked him out. His dad is CSIS: Dr. Jack Chen. A molecular biologist at HQ in Ottawa. Anti-terrorism forensics.”

“Molecular biologist? Fuck. Really?”

Gilles nods.

“Okay. Get him into Room 2 and start recording. Don’t question him – wait for me. Stay when I get there, but let me lead. Tell Jocelyne and Stéphane to watch from the other side. Put Derek on lookout, in case the cows come near the building.”

“Will do, Nita.”

Cows, she thinks again.

∆ ∆ ∆

The kid can’t be more than in his early twenties. He’s tall – over six feet; he doesn’t even have a hint of stubble on his baby face; hair so dark it’s black, but with a streak of red on the left and a streak of platinum blond on the right. His eyes keep straying to the floor, and he tends to mumble.

Agent Gupta says, “Kid, look at me when I speak to you and when you answer.” Then, she repeats: “First – what’s your name?”

He focuses straight into her eyes; there’s terror written all over his features. He’s about to open his mouth, but he pauses at the sound of distant explosions. The bridges.

Nita checks her watch: only five minutes behind schedule.

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