Omega Deep (Sam Reilly Book 12) by Christopher Cartwright

Author:Christopher Cartwright [Cartwright, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Elise put the additional video footage on.

They watched the third pilot sabotage the Dreamlifter. From a different angle Sam, Tom, and Elise could see everything – from the false instrument readings through to the sequence of false engine fires.

Sam felt a surge of heat up his neck and was surprised by his own anger. “That scumbag! If we ever find him, he’ll pay for this.”

Elise grabbed the iPad and pressed down on the screen. “There’s more.” A separate video feed showed the cargo area. Light flooded in as the forward hatch opened up, and ten men dressed in military gear flooded in. Two flashes came from the direction of the cockpit and in short order, two of the men dragged the pilot’s bodies into the cargo area.

The two men joined the others releasing the sphere, and assembling and inflating two large pontoons around the engine. In under a minute, the whole thing was set up. The tail door cracked open. As the camera adjusted to the new lighting conditions, a large sea barge moved toward the plane. A heavy tow line was attached to the sphere, which was rapidly floated out as the cargo hold filled with sea water.

Tom stared at the screen, baffled, “They were professionals. There was no way this was done without inside help.”

“Okay, so there’s the sphere being loaded onto the boat, before the aircraft sinks. I still don’t see what happened to the island.”

“Have a look behind.”

Sam squinted. His eyes went in and out of focus as his brain tried to comprehend what he was seeing.

There was a thick fog.

Elise asked, “What do you see?”

“There’s a thick fog of some sort.”

“Right. And what sort of day was it when the Dreamlifter made its watery landing?”

“It was stormy. I remember they were flying in a total whiteout because of the clouds.”

“Sure. But at what altitude?”

“You’re right. They broke through the cloud cover. On the ground, it was overcast, but the sea was a dark blue, nearly ultramarine in color, with sun rays flickering off its surface.”

“That’s right. That’s what you saw on the FDR,” Elise said, a slight grin forming on her lips. “What do you see here?”

“It’s heavily overcast, with a thick fog setting in.”

“Right. Only the fog isn’t just now setting in. It’s dissipating.”

Sam said, “I don’t understand.”

“What color water would you expect to see if overhead were covered by thick, impenetrable clouds?”

“Dark. The water would take on a grayish-black appearance and be nearly impossible to distinguish.” Sam grinned, curiously. “But I watched the FDR recording through the cockpit windshield, that water was beautiful. It was blue and crisp, and full of sunshine glistening off its surface.”

“And it was all fake,” Elise said.

“How?”

“A trick done by the cloaks and mirrors of a magician.”

“How, Elise?”

“A combination of glycol and water.”

“What?” Sam asked.

“Theatrical smoke on a grand scale.”

Sam shook his head, and a grin creased the corners of his lips as he thought about the complexity of the simple ruse. “Someone, put up a smoke

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