Hunting Season by P. T. Deutermann

Author:P. T. Deutermann [Deutermann, P. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Thriller
ISBN: 9780312269791
Goodreads: 1523125
Published: 2001-02-19T13:00:00+00:00

and the RA sat down on the edge of it. His expression was somber, and then she remembered that Ken Whittaker had been killed, along with those two kids, the rent-a-cops. Farnsworth was accompanied by Ben Keenan, who was his number two in the Roanoke FBI office. Keenan, who had been away on annual vacation, had come back in after the explosion.

There were three other men, whom she did not recognize, but they looked like feds. They filed in behind the RA and gathered around the end of the bed. She saw a state trooper standing on guard outside her door before Farnsworth shut it. She was almost glad to see them, until Farnsworth introduced the three other men as being from the ATE Two of them appeared to be in their early thirties, and the third was much older. She nodded carefully as each was introduced, then promptly forgot their names.

“How’s Ransom?” she asked, remembering his crumpled form.

“Not terrific,” Keenan said.

“Took a piece of re bar through the head.

He’s in a coma. We’re all praying that he’ll come out of it. But actually…”

He shrugged.

“Janet, can you go through it again?” Farnsworth said.

“What happened out there at the arsenal?”

Janet described their tour of the bunker fields—nothing out there but empty concrete mounds surrounded by tall weeds. Then she described their search in the industrial area, and where she had been standing when the world ended.

“I remember that one of those kids—one of the rent-acops—had gone down to unlock the power plant, but I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention.”

One of the younger aTF agents leaned forward.

“We’re trying to figure out what kind of a bomb it was,” he said.

“The girl they recovered?

She made a fragmentary statement at the scene, said something about a hydrogen bomb and Washington? You have any take on that?”

She shook her head again, carefully. There was a monster headache lurking back in there. The aTF guy must be talking about Lynn Kreiss, she thought. The second aTF agent, the other young one, asked her if she could describe the explosion.

“Felt it, never saw it,” she said.

“Pressure, heat, no noise—I think the sound was there, of course, but it was overwhelming. You all are echoing when you talk.”

“We have a tech team from the Washington NEST at the site right now,” the aTF agent said.

“You know, that nuclear emergency response team? They’re making a

radiation survey, just in case, although we think the nuke angle is unlikely. We’ve backed all the local response people out until we know something, one way or the other.”

Janet didn’t know what to make of all that. She’d caught only a glimpse of the area through the doors of the ambulance. She supposed it could have been a nuclear bomb, given the extent of the destruction, but shouldn’t she have been flash burned On the other hand, that power plant had been absolutely flattened. She could still visualize the molten and smashed boilers where the building had been, and the crumpled tank farm behind it.

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