REVENGE: A technothriller (Hugo Xavier Series Book 1) by Filip Forsberg

Author:Filip Forsberg [Forsberg, Filip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FF Publishing
Published: 2020-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

17

Klaus smiled stiffly when two of the board members’ assistants passed in front of him and stopped a few feet away. They were in the hallway outside the room where the board meeting would soon take place. Klaus shook their hands.

A young man named Jack, with a hook nose and thick, square glasses, was the assistant to Donald Gold, a wealthy industrialist from Central America. Klaus had only met Jack once and remembered the weasel as a small, slippery type.

“Good to see you, Klaus. All is well, I hope?”

“Yes, thank you. So, anything new in the mining world?”

Jack snorted a laugh and slapped Klaus on the shoulder as if they were long-time pals. “Not that I can think of. Just the same endless struggle of fighting all the idiot environmentalists who are trying to shut us down. Those bastards are getting bolder and bolder by the day, I’m telling you.” Jack pushed the glasses up on the bridge of his nose and went on, “The other day, they tried to storm one of our facilities. We just barely managed to chase them away.”

Klaus scratched his cheek. “Yeah. I think I read about that. It was the mine that they stormed, wasn’t it?”

“That’s right,” Jack said. Then his phone rang, and he held up a bony finger as he answered it. “Yes?”

He listened intently while Klaus watched.

“Okay, I’m on my way.”

Jack grinned crookedly and slapped Klaus on the shoulder again. Klaus responded only with a stiff smile.

“Got to go,” said Jack with a suddenly somber expression. “Donald needs me.”

“All right. See you in there.”

With that, Jack power-walked away, and Klaus pondered what this could mean. With Jack’s reaction, it was probably serious. Donald Gold was one of the most powerful men in the world of mining. For the past twenty years, he had built up an empire that controlled huge wealth and had made Donald a very rich man.

But he, too, had been contacted by QuantumCorp to take a seat on its board. He’d accepted, and just like that, QuantumCorp had added another powerful member to its ranks.

Another man came barreling around the corner. When he reached Klaus, he handed him a cell phone.

“Here. There’s an urgent call for you.”

Klaus pulled his sizeable head back in surprise. “What? From whom?”

“I don’t know. I was just told to give the phone to you as soon as possible.”

A jolt of dread passed through Klaus as he took the device and held it up to his ear. “Yes?”

A raspy voice said, “This is Major Loush.”

Klaus straightened up in an instant. This could not be good news. “Major Loush, what can I do for you?”

“We have a situation here that’s going south real fast. Your name came up, which is why I’m contacting you.”

A bead of sweat trickled down Klaus’ temple. “Is that right?”

“About an hour ago,” Loush continued, “one of my men in the drone department received a call from an external resource. The caller needed help taking an airplane down and communicated a level-seven code.

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