Line of Fire by Patterson R. J

Author:Patterson, R. J. [Patterson, R. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Espionage
Amazon: B0895CHMR8
Goodreads: 53508134
Publisher: Green E-Books
Published: 2020-05-25T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

UPON BLACK’S RETURN to Washington, Blunt gathered the Firestorm team together to develop a plan for apprehending Preston Vogle. Four days had passed since Black saw him on Cape Hatteras, but since then Vogle had all but vanished. And Blunt was growing impatient.

“Welcome back,” Blunt said as he nodded at Black, who was nursing a cup of coffee. “Ready to move to Alaska?”

“If you like being alone, there’s not a better place to live.”

Blunt chuckled. “Is that all you have to say about it?”

“Beautiful country,” Black said. “Maybe I’ll have more insightful commentary once I wake up.”

“That is a long trip,” Blunt said before he turned toward Shields. “Any word from Miriam Parsons?”

Shields shook her head. “And from all the monitoring we’re doing on traffic cams and every other CCTV feed we can utilize, Vogle’s become a ghost.”

Blunt fished a new cigar out of his pocket and snipped off the end. “The longer this goes on, the more I fear we may not find Vogle until it’s too late.”

“It’d be really nice if we could utilize the FBI to conduct a manhunt,” Shields said.

“Of course, but we’ve been asked to keep this search quiet for Quinn’s sake, not to mention the rest of the agency’s.”

“If we knew what he took and why…” Black said, letting his words hang.

Blunt nodded. “For now, I’m willing to respect the agency’s wishes. But if Vogle’s threat grows, I’m open to revisiting that. But let’s just see if we can figure out a way around having to make that choice. What do you say?”

Shields nodded. “So, I did a little digging on the man Lewis Dalton suggested we look into, an agent named Frank Horner.”

“Anything interesting aside from him being dead?” Black asked.

She pushed copies of a document across the table toward Blunt and Black. “I got his personnel files and did a little digging. By all accounts, he was a model agent, much like Vogle. He spent time in the Middle East but was never in Kabul, at least officially.”

Black stroked his chin as he stared at the page. “Dalton said Vogle and Horner worked together in Kabul.”

“Well, apparently it wasn’t the kind of project that was logged with the CIA.”

“Then what were they doing there?” Blunt asked.

Shields held up her index finger. “That’s the million-dollar question, sir.”

“There’s got to be some link to Wellington,” Black said. “If the CIA had him working on some secret project and these guys were all in Kabul during that same time, wouldn’t it stand to reason they were all working together?”

Blunt shrugged. “Maybe, or it could just be coincidence. At this point, there’s only one person who can tell us what’s going on.”

“One person that we know of,” Shields said. “Vogle allegedly had ties to Horner and was in Kabul while Wellington was there. But there could be someone else or maybe a handful of others who could explain what might be going on.”

“At this point, that’s just a theory,” Blunt said, gnawing on his cigar. “We have to deal with the facts we have.

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