Once Upon a Spy (Humorous Cozy Mystery) by Nic Saint

Author:Nic Saint [Nic Saint]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Puss in Print Publications
Published: 2015-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“Listen up!”

Yvonne and Izzy sat a little straighter, their gazes fixed on Matt as he paced the floor. They were gathered in the conference room for an emergency briefing. Their first day on the job wasn’t even over yet, and here they were already being considered full-fledged members of ASS.

Yvonne couldn’t suppress a sense of pride. After their return to the office, Frank had quickly given them a tour of the facility and introduced them to the other members of the team—hurriedly, for Matt had asked everyone to gather in the conference room.

The compound, basically an old refurbished mill, consisted of several small offices on the ground floor looking out onto a central operations room, where a wall-sized screen dwarfed more desks holding more computer terminals. On the screen, a map of the United States was visualized, with small green dots indicating where crimes were possibly in progress, and small red ones announcing crimes yet to be committed. Below the map, several statistics were constantly refreshed. One of these had drawn Yvonne’s attention: it displayed the accuracy rate of the software, judging from police reports after the fact. It currently stood at a whopping 99 percent.

So the software worked, there was no doubt about that.

Frank had introduced them to five more members of their team, all of them analysts. She’d wondered at the lack of actual field agents, but Frank had explained that the actual operational side of the project would be left to the respective police precincts dotted across the nation, and the many crime fighting agencies populating the US intelligence family. The only actual field agents were Brian and Frank, now joined by Yvonne and Izzy, with Matt also supplying backup if necessary.

It made Yvonne a little uncomfortable, knowing they had so little experience. But then again, if Frank, Brian and Matt thought they were up for it, they probably were.

“For now, though, we’re running all the operations ourselves, as this project is still in the early test stages. The moment we’re operational, we’ll only take the ‘special cases’.” Frank had wiggled his eyebrows at that, but had refused to divulge the nature of these so-called special cases.

Yvonne looked around the conference room. The five analysts, three men and two women, sat quietly watching Matt, while Brian and Frank had taken up position near the back of the room.

Yvonne and Izzy, like the good pupils they were, were seated in the first row.

“You might have heard about the attack that took place a little earlier today? It has now been confirmed a drone was responsible for the attack.” Joe’s face was grim. “Not just any drone, mind you. A special prototype developed by EYE. Somehow—we don’t know how—someone—we don’t know who—has managed to take control of this drone, and launch a missile at Director Harridan and myself. I’ve spoken to Aaron Chinn, and he’s doing everything in his power to find out more. In the meantime we need to be extra vigilant.”

He directed a probing look at Yvonne, who felt a jolt of anticipation setting her belly on fire.

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