Hostage!: A Hugh Ranier Novella (Hugh Ranier Short Series Book 2) by Crull Robert E

Author:Crull, Robert E. [Crull, Robert E.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-02-11T16:00:00+00:00

Thursday

I got to the office around eight fifteen to see Hartley and Jones making coffee.

“Earl. Rob. How are things?”

“Things are good. We’ve got some intel for you,” Rob said.

“That was quick.”

“Seems like these guys are pretty open about what they’re doing.”

“How so?”

“This Amir character is the most active out of all the folks we’ve seen coming and going.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. There’s maybe ten total guys we’ve seen come and go from this place,” Earl said.

“We were led to believe it was a little larger group.”

“Not that we’ve seen,” Rob said.

“You’ve only been at the surveillance for a day right?” I asked.

“That’s right,” Earl said.

“Ok. Let’s pull a couple more days to see what the patterns are.”

“There’s something else,” Earl blurted out.

“Say it.”

“They’ve been moving a lot of boxes into the site.”

“Looks like they may be ramping up for something,” Rob said.

“Interesting, lets get some more time in down there. We may have to put more people on surveillance to cover the nights.”

“We’ve been there straight since you assigned us,” Earl said.

“No sleep?”

“Yeah we take turns, just like the good old days. You know how you do,” Rob said.

“Yeah I do. Let me talk this over with Don and we’ll call you back later in the day.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Earl said.

“You guys go back down for now though,” I said.

“On it Boss.”

I left the kitchen without my own cup of coffee. I’d go back.

+++

“Hey. You got a minute?“ I said standing in the door to Don’s office.

“Gimme five.”

“Stop in my office when you have the chance.”

“Alright.”

I went to my office to set up for the day and which included getting another cup of coffee. I grabbed the cup and made my way to the kitchen. Hartley and Jones had left, and Laura was at her desk.

“Morning,” I said walking back to my office.

“Morning.”

“How’s the day look?”

“Fairly light.”

“That’s good. We’ll talk later.”

As I walked into the hallway Don was walking out of his office.

“What’s up?” he asked.

“Just had a short meeting with Hartley and Jones.”

“Yeah I talked with them a few minutes before you got here.”

“What’re your thought’s?”

“The boxes movin’ in bothers me.”

“Me too,” I said.

“We don’t have enough information to be able to predict anythin’ yet.”

“That’s the other part that bothers me.”

“What do you wanna do?”

“Maybe some additional surveillance. I don’t know.”

“Couldn’t hurt,” he said.

“We could put Smiley on it since he’s available.”

“Do you want to pay his fee for surveillance?”

“He is expensive, no question.”

“You have anybody else in mind?”

“Not off the top of my head.”

“Lemme do some review and I’ll get back to ya.”

“Ok.”

“Can I go to the bathroom now?”

“Sure. We need to talk about the meeting with the attorney tomorrow,” I said as he walked away.

“Yup. In a minute.”

I went back to my office to review email for the morning. It had been a light afternoon and evening Wednesday and there hadn’t been much to review.

Dallas had a light morning and had decided to sleep in and I thought I’d give her a call while I was waiting on Don.

“Hello,” she said.

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