Quantico 1 - Quantico by Greg Bear

Author:Greg Bear [Bear, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Science Fiction, Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction, Political, Intelligence service, Suspense fiction, War on Terrorism; 2001, Government investigators - United States, Espionage
ISBN: 9781593154738
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2008-03-12T21:07:46+00:00

"Where do you want us? Rebecca's the majordomo on this."

"So I hear. Cahill seated himself in one of the audience chairs, leaving Hiram to assume the Thronea large black chair mounted on a three-step riser, with the best view of every display. Rebecca stood in a spotlight where the second ring of the circus might have beenthe room was almost that large. Makes you feel like a little girl about to give a recital, doesn't it? Cahill asked.

"We could move elsewhere, Hiram suggested.

"Wouldn't think of it. Sitting here helps you understand our problems better than anything. We so much wanted to be movie stars. Pretty soon, if we don't do something, and fast, we'll just be extras without any lines. Rebecca, don't get all choked up by the glitz."

"I gave my files to the data logger, sir. They should be coming up shortly."

"And here they are, Cahill said. My last chance to control the vertical, control the horizontal. News, here you gothe Magic Wand is easy to learn. He raised a small silver remote.

"No, sir, Hiram said. It's Rebecca's show."

"So it is, Cahill said. Begin."

"Amerithrax was a punk, gentlemen, she said. Compared to what we're facing now, what he did to this country was trivial."

On video and slides, sheep, cows, baboons, monkeys, and chimpanzees died awful deaths. She discussed the creation of antibiotics-resistant anthrax in the FSUthe Former Soviet Unionand showed downwind casualty charts from the accidental 1979 outflow of powder-fine anthrax at Sverdlovsk. Next, she flashed the files of U.S. weapons experts who had been the target of FBI suspicions in the years following Amerithrax. She concluded this segment by saying, Compared to the thousands of tons created in Russia and shipped off to Resurrection Island, the five letters mailed in 2001 were no worse than a mosquito bite on an elephant. But the elephant flinched and it got pretty damned expensive. So Amerithrax was an extremely effective punk, and we never caught him. Now, we think heor someone with his knowledge and expertisehas surfaced again. We think he and his partners are trying to sell genetically modified anthrax to antagonists in the Middle East. Not necessarily to use against usthough that's a possibility, of course. But to use against each other. The Israelis have recently arrested and sequestered a group equipped with crude but effective bioweapons apparently shipped from the United Statesfireworks shells that match the description of those that could have been produced at the farm of Robert Chambers, the Patriarch.

"Our new Amerithrax may be using a particularly seductive lure. He claims that these anthrax shells carry germs modified to attack only Jews. Apparently, he's managed to convince a number of Muslim extremists. They've tested his germs in Iraq at two locations, Baghdad and Kifri. Just off the BuDark wire service, Rebecca added, looking up. One of our agents, Fouad Al-Husam, was rescued after being shot down in northern Iraq. He delivered autopsy samples to an army assessment unit in Turkey. They came from the bodies of Kurdish Jews exposed to anthrax spores.

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