SKELETON by Peter Parkin

Author:Peter Parkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988281483
Published: 2018-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

Brett was drinking coffee and surfing the net once again in his favorite Internet café. He felt safe here, and it was usually almost empty.

He started wondering about how safe he would be after the 'package'

was retrieved. He knew how ruthless the government could be—first hand knowledge. He was well aware of how many people he had had to silence over the years. Even though he never knew all the details, he presumed the predominant reasons for losing their lives was that they knew too much. Or couldn't be controlled. Or they were just plain evil.

Even poor James Layton lost his life for two of those reasons. This Barb Jenkins had told Fiona that he was threatening to go to the Press. Shortly thereafter, he was shot in the head. According to Barb, on the wrong side of the head. If anyone had dug deeper on that point, the suicide theory would have been discounted quick.

And now here he was, being suspected by his good friend, Bill Charlton, of sticking his nose in where it didn't belong. It was true, of course. Bill wasn't accustomed to discovering that Brett had researched deep background on an assignment. Usually Brett just did the job, gave Bill what he needed, and pocketed the cash.

But Bill had told him that the 'package' had to do with the Apollo moon missions. If he hadn't told him that, Brett would have happily gone ahead with the job as he usually did—with brutal efficiency.

But how was Bill to know that outer space, and the moon, were absolute obsessions of Brett's? He had never shared that with him when they'd had beers together. It was one of those nerdy interests that had developed when he was just a kid. And Brett was far from being a nerd, even back when he was a kid. But growing up was tough, and friends could be cruel. If a boy had a hobby like science, astronomy, animals, music, he kept it quiet. Enjoyed it on the sly. No one needed to know. Because if they did know, all hell could break loose on the precious image.

And to a kid, image was everything. Just to survive.

As an adult, Brett figured he had just gotten used to keeping his interests to himself, even when he was together with friends like Bill. They just didn't need to know.

So, Bill had innocently let something slip; something more stimulating than he could have possibly realized when he told Brett that the 'package' had something to do with the moon missions. He had no idea what kind of 'Pandora's box' he'd opened in Brett's brain when he said that.

A little voice was now whispering away inside Brett's brain—a voice that he had listened to numerous times during his career. A voice that had never failed to warn him of imminent danger.

He had no idea how much Bill knew he knew—that was what bothered him. For his friend to actually ask him the question that he did was telling enough.

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