Hard Target (The OPSIG Team Black Series) by Alan Jacobson

Author:Alan Jacobson [Jacobson, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

12:12 PM

97 hours 48 minutes remaining

Uzi did not even acknowledge the sixth-floor receptionist as he breezed past her desk.

She rose from her chair. “Hey, you can’t—”

“Watch me,” Uzi said under his breath as he rounded the corner. He grabbed the knob of Garza’s office and flung open the door.

The room was empty. “Shit,” Uzi said. He set his hands on his waist and stared at the empty chair twenty feet in front of him.

“Back so soon?”

The voice came from behind him. He spun, his right hand instinctively reaching for the handle of his Glock, as he’d done so many times before when his brain screamed “imminent danger.” But he stopped himself before he’d drawn the weapon, the adrenaline subsiding a bit when he saw Garza standing behind him.

Uzi clenched his jaw. “You’re an asshole, Garza.”

The agent slid past Uzi into the office, making his way toward his chair. “No, I’m really not. I’m actually well liked by my staff and colleagues. Unlike yourself.” He stopped, looked at Uzi, and grinned.

“What’s your problem? What did I ever do to you?”

“Why are you here?”

“You didn’t answer my question.”

Garza took a seat behind his desk and lifted the phone. Uzi flashed across the room like a bobcat, his hand slamming the handset back onto the receiver.

“You seem a bit pissed.”

Uzi kept his hand firmly atop Garza’s. “You think?”

“Guess I’d better be careful. I don’t want to get a visit by OPR,” he said, referring to the Bureau’s internal affairs police.

Uzi stood up, releasing his grip on Garza’s hand. “What?”

“Jake Osborn isn’t just my friend, he’s a top-notch agent.”

Osborn. That’s what this is about. I should’ve seen it coming.

“Jake’s paid his dues to get where he is, and then some punk foreigner comes along—”

“Stop right there, asshole. I’m a US citizen. I was born here. Even if I wasn’t, so what? Osborn fucked up. He was unsafe. People could’ve gotten killed. He didn’t follow established protocol, which means that if I look the other way, I’m as guilty as he is. It’s bad for me, bad for the Bureau. It isn’t what we get paid to do.”

“We get paid to make the country a safer place. That’s what Jake was doing.”

“I could’ve referred him for an OPR, made things a lot worse for him. But I didn’t.”

“He engaged the suspect against orders because he felt the asshole was dangerous and could’ve killed others if he’d gotten away. Jake did what he thought was right.”

“So did I.” Uzi looked away. He had important matters to discuss with Garza, and this wasn’t one of them. “I’m here to talk about ARM and the NFA.”

Garza spun his chair to face the large picture window that looked out over downtown DC. “We already had that discussion.”

“We’re gonna have it again. Only this time you’re not going to bullshit me. You’re gonna tell me what you know.”

“What makes you think I didn’t already do that?”

“Obstruction of justice is an ugly thing to appear on your resume,” Uzi said. He leaned both hands on Garza’s desk, and waited.

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