Infiltrate (Silver Cane Chronicles Book 3) by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2017-11-03T06:00:00+00:00

The personal cruiser was far smaller than Razor. It was slow and had no armaments, but it was covered with a dampening field and could pass unnoticed by ship sensors. If anyone saw the small craft or the two plasma jets with their own eyes then Silver would be discovered. But no one was looking for her. She was dead, shot down by a mosquito missile over Frost. Her craft was utterly destroyed and as far as anyone was aware she was gone. Only Darklin and Admiral Blake knew where she was and what she was doing.

The small cruiser was on course for Pepper. If there was one other high-ranking official that Silver could trust, it was Skraf. She didn’t like him, and she suspected that he didn’t like her. That was irrelevant. He was an ally. If he had known about the conspiracy to hijack the civilian cruiser and crash it into Gov Central he would have fled the complex and saved himself from certain death. Yes, the conspirators were fanatical and possibly suicidal but Skraf had no reason to allow himself to be killed.

Silver was sure he wasn’t involved with the conspiracy. But with the conspiracy gaining ground he was in danger. The bureaucratic service was necessary if the system was to recover from the current turmoil. Skraf needed to be taken into protective custody quickly.

Silver sat in the flight deck of the cruiser. It was far more elaborate in design than Razor had been, built for comfort not functionality. She reclined in a large chair and watched the craft’s slow progress toward Pepper on the holostage next to her chair.

“I am detecting a message on police HQ systems,” Arty said.

Alert and nervous, Silver sat forward. “I said no communications. I don’t want to alert Pepper’s flight control that we are inbound.”

“It is a police service coded message, reaching out to any police service AI. Only I can hear it,” Arty said.

“What is it?” asked Silver.

“It’s an image, from agent Diamond. It was sent a fraction of a second before his cruiser was destroyed.”

Arty displayed the image on the holostage. It was a grainy dark image. There was barely anything to be seen. A black image with a single bright line across it.

“Is that it?” Silver looked more closely.

“That is the raw data.” Arty replied. “It was captured and sent in a hurry.”

“Can you enhance the image?” Silver asked.

The image blurred and darkened as Arty manipulated the image data. The resolution flickered and the bright area grew in intensity. There were clearly two elements to the image, the void of space and the dark image of a composite hull. As the image became clearer, Silver could see that the bright line was a reflection along the hull’s leading edge.

Silver looked and considered what it might be. What would her agent send in a covert message moments before his destruction?

“It is a ship.” Silver said.

The image blurred and brightened in a strobe like fashion as Arty again tried to resolve the image.

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