End Game by David Hagberg

Author:David Hagberg [Hagberg, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781466814332
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-FIVE

Page was on the phone with Bob Blankenship, the CIA’s chief of security. He put a hand over the mouthpiece. “She just made it out of the garage,” he told McGarvey. “We’ll have her at the main gate.”

“Give those guys the heads-up that she’s armed,” Pete said, coming in from the outer office.

“Stand by.”

“She had a pistol of some kind attached to the bottom of one of the drawers in her desk. She must have heard what we were saying, because she was in a big hurry. She got her gun but didn’t close the drawer.”

“No,” Schermerhorn said. “She wants us to know she’s carrying. She’s thumbing her nose at us because she has a plan.”

“Excuse me,” McGarvey said, and took the phone from Page. “Bob, Kirk McGarvey. She’s armed, but she won’t try for the main gate. Did any of your officers have a one-on-one encounter with her?”

“Tom Soldier in the parking garage just a minute or so ago. She disarmed him, but she didn’t shoot him.”

“Did she take his security badge?”

“Yeah, and his radio, but she left his sidearm on the floor.”

“No one got hurt?”

“No.”

“Stay off the radio. She’s going to try for the back gate, using your security officer’s badge, which I assume hasn’t been locked out.”

“Shit,” Blankenship said. “I have two people back there.”

“Tell them not to approach her, or she will shoot.”

“Can’t use the radio, so what do you want me to do? Write them a letter?”

“Radio them. But have the Virginia state police a block off one ninety-three and one twenty-three a couple of miles either side of the gate. If she gets out, she’ll try to commandeer a car or truck.”

“I’m on it,” Blankenship said. “But she’s just the DCI’s secretary, for Christ’s sake.”

“She was an NOC and a damned good one, from what I’m told. How soon can we get a couple of choppers in the air in case she abandons her car and tries to make it through the fence on foot?”

“At least fifteen minutes.”

“Too late. Tell your people to watch themselves.”

“This is unbelievable,” Page said. “Are you sure she’s the right one?”

“No. But she did take off with a gun she’d hidden in her desk, and she disarmed a security officer.”

“She didn’t kill him, did she?”

“No.”

“Why not?” Page asked.

“I’m going to ask her when I pick her up,” McGarvey said. “Roy’s coming with me.”

“Do I get a gun again?”

“Not this time.”

“What about me?” Pete asked.

“I want you to organize someplace secure here on campus for an interrogation. And I do mean secure. At least four people for muscle, and I want it done within the next half hour or less.”

“If she’s as tough as Roy thinks she is, it may take a while to get through to her.”

“Stock the cupboard,” McGarvey said.

Out in the corridor, he and Schermerhorn raced down to the stairwell. Several people out in the hallway moved aside as they passed. None of them knew exactly what was going on, but several of them recognized McGarvey and

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