Millenium Strike by Christopher Cole

Author:Christopher Cole [Cole, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2020-11-11T15:51:53+00:00

CHAPTER

FIFTEEN

Holden felt surprisingly refreshed as the plane touched down in Brussels. After disembarking, he made his way up the gangway, and into the gate area. His friend, from Interpol was standing there waiting for him.

“Frank, how are you?” Johanne asked as Frank took his extended hand. “Welcome to Brussels,” he finished.

As the two men exchanged salutations and chatted, they made their way through immigration and customs. Frank collected his luggage and the two men left the terminal, walking to the curb where the Interpol commander’s car awaited them. After the driver took his luggage, Frank took a seat next to the commander in the back of the car. He looked at his friend and turned the conversation more serious.

“Johanne, I don’t know how your investigation is proceeding, but I have to tell you, these past several months have been like a roller coaster ride for us.”

“Yes, you sounded a little frustrated over the phone,” Johanne replied, “What’s been happening?”

“Well,” Frank began, “we’ve been working almost a year on a case involving leaks of some very sensitive hi-tech information. We narrowed the number of suspects down to the point that we should have wrapped the thing up months ago. But every time we’d think we were making progress, we’d find nothing but a dead end. The next thing I know, an assistant secretary of commerce killed, we find out that some employees of one of our suspects are assassinated, and now, apparently, and ex-CIA operative unknowingly got involved with a woman whose husband is the leader of a group of assassins. As far as we know, he’s the only one that hasn’t been killed, yet.”

“Frank, forgive me,” Johanne laughed, “I know it’s not funny, but you are really wound up. Why don’t you start with those assassinations you just mentioned?”

“Sorry,” Holden said, somewhat embarrassed by his outburst, “allow me to begin again. I guess I’ll start with the Chinese connection. As I mentioned, we have been seeking the source of some leaks regarding very sensitive hi-tech information. One of the suspects in the case, had his own people on the ground over there. Apparently one of them was successful in digging something up. This internal security officer was killed when he came back to the states to make contact with his supervisor. The supervisor was also killed.”

“These were the men last seen with the two women?” Johanne interjected.

“Yes. When the owner of the company finally found out that his men had died at the hands of assassins and not from natural causes, he made a conscience decision to keep the information from the authorities.”

“Oh?” Johanne questioned.

“Yeah, I know, but his reasoning was that neither had family and the company couldn’t afford to have too much light shone on the incident. His story checked out, so we’ve let things be, for now.”

Frank opened his brief case and handed Johanne a file. “This is a detailed account of how the men were killed. If you can cross reference the methods with your cases over here, we may be able to tell if these incidents are indeed related.

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