Point of Impact by Jack Patterson

Author:Jack Patterson [Patterson, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Thriller
ISBN: 9781938848858
Publisher: Green E-Books
Published: 2016-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

ALEX GUZZLED A RED BULL and rubbed her eyes. She’d stayed up most of the night going over all the closed-circuit feeds she could hack into in order to figure out what happened to Colton and his captors. She blew up every frame between the time of the attack and the moment Hawk arrived and didn’t see the faintest movement on foot. A biker here. A homeless man pushing a grocery cart there. But nothing that accounted for a missing Colton and a white Suburban loaded with Al Hasib terrorists.

Convinced that she’d been thorough, she shifted tactics and assumed that perhaps there was a tunnel they’d found and vanished beneath the city. She searched San Francisco planning records in the area, looking for a possible tunnel or canal that could lead to a safe location.

Nothing.

Alex felt as if the terrorists were taunting her, mocking her and every other government analyst poring over the records in an effort to locate them. If anything, she had to give Al Hasib credit for doing not only their homework online but also for committing to the legwork on the ground. Somehow they’d managed to find something that nobody else knew about, not in city planning records or in available engineering documents. It seemed like they’d discovered a Rabbit Hole and fallen in without leaving a trace.

Throughout the night, she’d listened off and on to the local San Francisco PD scanner, trying to pick up something she might have missed. But they seemed just as lost as she was.

Finally, she picked up her cell phone and dialed the number of a friend from college who worked as a detective in San Francisco.

“Hi, Craig. It’s Alex. Alex Duncant.”

“Alex Duncan?” said the man sounding as if he was almost in disbelief. “As I live and breathe. To what do I owe this dubious honor of you giving me a call?”

“I need your help.”

The man laughed. “Let me write that down. I believe it’s a first.”

Alex forced a laugh. The truth is that she would’ve never called Craig Gorman without good reason. He once remarked off-handedly while they were in college that her thighs were a smidge too large for his liking. That was the last thing he said before she delivered a swift kick to his groin region.

Doubled over in pain, Craig apologized.

Alex grabbed his arm and bent it awkwardly before he confessed that he had the hots for her and wanted to ask her out.

“Too bad,” she’d said before releasing his arm.

That episode occurred several years ago. Alex wondered if it was as fresh on his mind as it was on hers.

“I’m not above asking for help,” Alex said, “especially in a situation like this.”

“A situation like this? What are you talking about?”

“The kidnapping yesterday of Tom Colton.”

Craig huffed a laugh through his nose. “Do we need to be concerned about finding that greedy weapons manufacturer? I think the world would be better off if the terrorists just took him back to their own country and did as they pleased with him.

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