Firepower by John Cutter

Author:John Cutter [Cutter, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lume Books
Published: 2021-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“He wants you to do what?” Agent Deirdre Corlin had raised her voice a little, to go with her raised eyebrows.

Vince glanced nervously at the door of the library. No one seemed to be passing. He was back in Germanic Brethren uniform, but he felt he stuck out like a sore thumb after what had happened with Colls. “You heard right. The Joint Chiefs. I think he figures even if I failed, I’d create so much chaos at the Pentagon it’d be another one of the decoys he prizes. It’ll draw more police and soldiers away from the real attack — and it’ll make a ‘Germanic Brethren’ point of its own. I don’t have a when or the target address. He’s being cagey with that.”

“I’ve got to report this as soon as I can…”

“You don’t have to bring my name into it. Let’s do that as little as possible. Just let ’em know it’s planned.”

She nodded. “It doesn’t matter because we’re not going to let anyone do it.”

“I wonder how much he thinks he can really accomplish for his idiotic cause with all this,” Vince murmured. “I mean, it’s not as if—”

He broke off, hearing Wynn Foster and Shaun Adler talking in the hall outside the open door of the little library.

“I don’t know when and I don’t know where,” Wynn was saying. “But we’re doing it. And it’s soon…”

They kept walking past the library. After he was sure they were gone, Vince whispered, “You find out anything?”

“I’m almost there. The guy you just heard saying he doesn’t know? He knows. He’s handling the dark web interface for the whole plan.”

“You’re using feminine wiles?”

“It’s my way into his head,” she said, sighing. “But he’s not going to get lucky.”

Vince smiled. Looking at this strong, admirable woman, crackling with intelligence and energy, he could almost daydream of getting lucky with her himself. But that daydream was something he didn’t allow himself anymore.

Still — was there a sexual tension between him and Deirdre? He kind of thought there was.

“What’s on your mind?” she asked suddenly.

“Me?” He was a little startled. “Nothing — I mean, everything. We need to know where and when and we need to know it soon, Deirdre. We need to be able to get into the emails, the directives, whatever’s going out on the dark web.”

She looked at him with her head cocked and her eyes narrowed, as if unsure of him. “I am still not committing to giving you what I find out. You’re a loose cannon, Bellator.”

“I delivered Stirner to your people. Even though someone should have wrung his neck.”

“Do I want to know how you did it?”

“Probably not. Anyway, you’re stuck with me. I’m here. I’ve still got to get Bobby out of that cell. And whatever they’re planning — I’m not going to let it happen. Just tell me what you can. But I’ll be more help if I know what’s going on. All of it.”

She shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe I should get permission.

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