LEGACY, Book 2: The Killing Fields by Murphy Warren & Welch Gerald

Author:Murphy, Warren & Welch, Gerald [Murphy, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Destroyer Books/Warren Murphy Media
Published: 2013-08-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Ben sat at his desk, reading through the weekly report of border-related crimes supplied by Smith. Weapons had been smuggled into Detroit through the Canadian border. Drug boats in Florida had begun to learn the Coast Guard’s patterns, and now were traveling in new routes. Though the news was somber, there was nothing yet that required sending Stone and Freya.

Ben opened the intricately-carved bone chest on his desk and removed a cigar. His FORtab began blinking before he could cut the tip. Smith was calling.

“I’ve received a coded message,” Smith said. “I’ve sent it to you. As you can see, it cannot be traced. Curiously, however, the sender has claimed to be Africa Senior, a member of VIGIL.”

Ben looked at the incoming message.

“Trace,” Ben said, and the FORtab immediately started filtering the hundreds of rerouted addresses the message had passed through.

The trace program finished in moments, unhelpfully stating “Origin Unknown.”

“Do you believe she is the real sender?” Ben asked.

“Certainly not,” Smith said flatly. “Only another FORtab would be capable of sending an untraceable message, and, so far as we know, Helmut has the only other extant device. Read the message.”

It was a detailed report about the brutal killing inside Club Stray. Ben was familiar with the massacre, since it was being covered non-stop by the news. Even though no guns had been used in the nightclub slaying, Senator Jesse Steinem, Daphne’s father, had already begun to use his personal tragedy as a platform for gun control legislation.

Having reviewed the security footage, police told the public to watch out for a short-haired woman carrying two blades. Within an hour, every member of every college fencing team in Illinois sat in jail, awaiting questioning and wondering what they had done wrong.

But the report Ben read showed that the murders had not been random killings by an “extremely disturbed individual,” as the police had said. Instead, it had been a deliberate assassination of Daphne Steinem by a highly-trained operative.

One section of the report displayed pictures of the attack. The woman who had killed those people stopped at the door on the way out and scrawled a symbol on the wall in blood.

The symbol of Sinanju.

“Good lord,” Ben said. “Is he actually trying to call out Sinanju?”

“It appears so. Stone and Freya must handle this immediately. We cannot risk exposing Sinanju.”

“They are due for their briefing this afternoon.”

“One thing, Mr. Cole,” Smith said with a grimace. “Using the symbol of Sinanju so blatantly certainly seems to indicate a trap. Unfortunately, until we know more, we have no choice but to follow it. Be extremely cautious.”

The connection closed and Ben sat back.

Ben looked through the gruesome photos for hours, before the light blinking above his door finally interrupted him. Stone and Freya had just entered the building.

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