Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

Author:Peter F. Hamilton [Hamilton, Peter F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General, Adventure, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780330493536
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2006-05-04T23:00:00+00:00

Renne had fumed at being given the perimeter duty. After all that the Paris office had been through lately she wanted to get into an armour suit and kick some serious ass. But the duty wasn’t just putting up barricades and liaising with the local police. Everyone brought down from the clinic had to be examined and confirmed. A lot of them would be criminals of some kind, it was that sort of clinic, which meant there was a good probability they would be weapons wetwired. Paula kept emphasizing how the perimeter was to be maintained. It was good to be working with the boss again. Renne just wished she was on the sharp edge of the operation. She couldn’t decide if she’d been given the perimeter duty because of Paula’s earlier suspicions. That she’d ever been on the suspect list in the first place had shocked her. But that was the boss for you, logical to the last. And she was still reeling from discovering Tarlo’s treachery. They’d known each other for nearly fifteen years.

The holding chambers they’d set up in the sub basement were starting to fill up with the Saffron Clinic people. All the fighting was over. There was no more debris falling onto the plaza, though water was still dribbling down the face of the Greenford Tower from the gaping windows.

Renne walked round the edge of the police barricades, looking up into the dark sky. The clinic’s floors were easy to see. Without their glass, the shattered windows gleamed a harsh amber against the rest of the Tower’s black bulk. The only illumination above ten metres in the whole city.

Police officers and patrolbots stood guard along the barricades, keeping the curious citizens well back. She was pleased to see how vigilant they were being despite the news about the starships.

‘Nobody down here, boss,’ she told Paula. ‘Do you want the police teams to start sweeping the lower floors?’

‘Not yet. Hoshe is locking down every floor. We’re going to have to seal up the entire Tower and scan everyone as they emerge.’

‘Long night.’

‘Looks that way.’

‘Have you heard the starships are back? The attack was a failure.’

‘That’s not good.’

‘So was the Starflyer part of that?’

‘I don’t know. I’ll have to ask Admiral Kime.’

‘You know the admiral?’

‘Yes.’

Renne knew she shouldn’t be surprised. But if the boss knew Kime, how come Columbia had fired her? Or had he? Was it a set-up to make the traitor relax his or her guard? With the boss, anything was possible. She never let go of a suspect.

Renne turned to go back into the Greenford Tower where Hoshe had set up the operation’s command post. Somebody moving away from the crowd outside the barricades caught her eye. She frowned. A girl with a mane of blond hair stepped off the pavement and crossed over Allwyn Street. It wasn’t the hair that made Renne peer after her, it was the walk. The girl almost strutted, holding her head high, hardly bothering to check the traffic had stopped for her.

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