Joe Ledger: Special Ops by Jonathan Maberry

Author:Jonathan Maberry [Maberry, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Jonathan Maberry, Scify
ISBN: 9781940161402
Amazon: B00JUFTHPU
Publisher: JournalStone
Published: 2014-04-21T05:00:00+00:00

~The End~

Mad Science

NOTE: This story takes place after the events of Assassin’s Code. There are some spoilers if you haven’t read that book.

Chap. 1

We came in with the whole Mission: Impossible thing.

Dropping through on wires, black clothes, whole bag of high-tech gizmos.

No cool theme music, though.

The ultraclean, ultrasecure lab was supposed to be making pills for old ladies with bad backs and men who wanted marathon erections.

But an undisclosed source whispered something very nasty into the right phone. She said that someone at Marquis Pharmaceuticals was cooking up something very, very nasty. The kind of thing that gives any sane person a case of the shakes. Something that no one inside U.S. borders was supposed to be working on, and something world governments had agreed to ban under all circumstances.

Two words.

Weaponized Ebola.

Yeah, sit with that for a moment. The black duds I wore were a modified Level A hazmat suit manufactured specifically for special operators. I didn’t look like the Michelin Man. More like a high-tech ninja, but there was no one around to tell me how badass I looked. Besides, I wasn’t wearing it for the cool-factor. Like I said…Ebola.

This is what the caller said: “They’re working on QOBE—quick-onset Bundibugyo ebolavirus. They already have buyers lined up.”

Quick-onset Ebola.

It’s exactly what it sounds like. Ebola that works really freaking fast. Aerosolized for tactical deployment and married to nearly microscopic airborne parasites that act as aggressive vectors. This is not science fiction. This is science paid for by people who have had time to sit down, calm down, and think it over…and who still want to write a check for a bioweapon that, once introduced, will hit and present within hours. The idea was to use it in confined areas to remove hostile assets. Introduce it into a bunker or secure facility, and everyone in there would die. Without living hosts, an insertion team in combat hazmat suits can infiltrate and gain access to computers and other materials. Infection rate is ninety-eight point eight percent; mortality rate among infected is one hundred percent.

Our people worked on this until the DMS found out about it and shut the facility down.

Now someone else was screwing with it.

Which is why I was hanging from wires ninety yards down an airshaft, wrapped in a nonconductive and nonreflective Hammer suit, armed to the teeth, and scared out of my mind.

Oh yeah…and cranky.

This one was making me very, very cranky.

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