Power Down by Coes Ben

Author:Coes, Ben [Coes, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2010-09-28T05:00:00+00:00

In Jessica’s office, Savoy told her about the failed extraction at Madradora.

“How the hell could they have known?” she asked.

“Andreas didn’t have much doubt.”

“What did he say?”

“That someone in your interagency group is bad.”

Jessica paused to think of the implications. She placed her right hand on her forehead and rubbed it for several seconds.

“Where is he now?”

“Don’t know. He hung up on me. He was running from the local police and God knows who else.”

She shook her head and looked at her watch. “What about Ted Marks? When do you leave for Colorado?”

“I leave in an hour,” said Savoy.

Jessica stared down at her desk for a moment, then walked to the window and looked out at Pennsylvania Avenue.

“What is it?” asked Savoy. “Andreas?”

“Yeah, that. But it’s this Saudi angle too,” she said. “The group’s taking it seriously, and I know we have to. But I don’t see it. I . . .”

“Want my opinion?”

“Sure.”

“Forget the fucking Saudis,” Savoy said. “Someone in that room”—he pointed his finger toward the ground, indicating the interagency conference room several floors beneath them—“is involved in this. For blood or money, they’re bent, and they’re scared, and they’d like nothing more than to have the government chasing its tail in Saudi Arabia. You need to start looking at the people who knew about Madradora immediately. And you’d better be extremely careful. Watch what you say and who you say it to. That’s how they found Andreas.”

Jessica nodded, still uncertain.

“But even more important, don’t let on that you suspect a goddamn thing. Trust me, if there’s a mole—and they think you’re onto them—then you’ve just put yourself in grave danger.”

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