Passenger List by John Scott Dryden

Author:John Scott Dryden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orion

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A strip of light leaked out from under the door at the storage unit. Kaitlin stared at it for a long moment, wondering if she should go in to see Agent Dennison. Her flight from Atlanta had landed an hour earlier and when she’d called Dennison again to update him, he’d sounded even more manic than when she’d left him.

The truth was, her mother’s news about Conor still haunted her. She’d pulled together so much information about the passengers on Flight 702, but she still couldn’t see how the pieces fit together, if at all. She wasn’t sure if Dennison was helping or making it worse, either.

Before she could reach a decision, the door rattled up and light flooded out. Dennison loomed, silhouetted against the glow from the bare bulb. Kaitlin noticed an odd posture, one hand thrust into his jacket pocket. Did he have a firearm tucked away?

‘Oh, it’s you,’ he said. He stepped out and looked up and down the line of darkened units. ‘I heard something. Can’t be too careful.’

Kaitlin froze. Could he have shot her?

‘People are watching me,’ he continued, beckoning her inside. ‘Not sure which agency. NSA? Homeland Security? Maybe the CIA. That means we’re getting close. But that means this is the point of greatest danger. They’ll stop at nothing to prevent us from revealing the truth.’

‘OK.’ Kaitlin half wondered if she should run. Instead, she stepped inside the unit and Dennison clanged down the door.

She couldn’t do this on her own, that was true. But the knot in her stomach told her Dennison wasn’t the right ally.

‘I’m getting close to finding out where they are,’ he said, spinning off to one of the piles of files.

‘Where? Where who are?’

‘My daughter! Your brother. The passengers. They’re all still alive.’

‘I don’t think that’s true. There’s no evidence. It’s just wishful thinking.’ She couldn’t let herself be led down that road. She’d drive herself mad.

‘There’s evidence. All right, not evidence. But enough to cause a strong suspicion. Don’t lose heart now, Kaitlin.’

‘I need to focus on the reason why the flight went down. Not get distracted by—’

‘Wait. Hear me out.’ Dennison crashed over to the pile of files and began riffling through them. ‘There’s just a few more details that I need to … OK, for example, I think there was a passenger travelling with a fake passport. The Bureau were cagey about it, so it might have just been a smokescreen.’

‘You mean Dimo Dragov. Yeah, I already looked into him. He was a Bulgarian crime boss.’

‘No, no, no. I’m not talking about him. It was a woman.’ Dennison flipped through a file with frantic movements. ‘Laura something. She seemed to be … She was definitely … They had something about her.’

‘Agent Dennison …’

‘Seemed really—’

‘Agent Dennison!’ Kaitlin snapped.

‘Fishy.’

‘Jim!’

Dennison snapped out of his manic state and stared at her.

‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry for your daughter,’ she began.

‘No. No, no. No. Don’t! Don’t give up on this, Kaitlin. Don’t let them get to you.’

‘No one’s getting to me. I don’t want to believe it any more than you do, but—’

‘No.

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