Shan Takhu Legacy Box Set - With an Extra Bonus Story by Eric Michael Craig

Author:Eric Michael Craig [Craig, Eric Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rivenstone Press
Published: 2019-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Office of the Senior Advisor to the Director: Galileo Station:

“I am sorry sir but somehow Tana Drake has eluded custody,” Ralf Gaelsen said. He was looking down at the tabletop in front of him and not making eye contact with the screen.

“Excuse me?” Lassiter growled. “How did you let that happen?”

“We’re not sure what occurred yet,” he said. “We’re reviewing all the video we can get our hands on, but we don’t know what went wrong. What I do know is that I have four men dead and two that appear to have vanished entirely. As near as we can tell from the video we’ve collected, the woman traveling with Drake simply executed them slick and fast. She took all four out in under a minute.”

“Was she a bodyguard?” he asked.

“Actually, she might be Saffia Drake,” Gaelsen said, opening what appeared to be a body optic image of the woman as she approached one operative. Paulson recognized her from state affairs they had attended together, although he didn’t remember her appearing so, physically fit. “We don’t have any images of her actually attacking, but we know from civilian reports of gunfire and a blood trail at the scene, at least one of them tried to defend himself. He wounded her before she took him down.”

“What about the other two of your men? You said they were missing?” he asked.

“Yes sir. They were the field-command for the operation and were at an observation post inside a café across the commons from where the murders happened. They had a clear line of sight on the open area in front of the loop terminal and the gate. According to the woman that owns the place, they abandoned their post about ten minutes before the situation occurred.” The captain shook his head and looked up at the screen. “Personally I think that doesn’t hold water, because one of the men had a wife and three kids. He’s a career operative and one of my best men.”

“I assume you interrogated her?” Paulson asked.

“We did a field biometric on her and she scanned clean. Not even a twitch,” he said. “We went ahead and took her into custody and we’ll do a brain sweep as soon as I can get a legal binder and a med tech in here to run it.”

Lassiter sat back and glared at Gaelsen for several minutes, watching the man wilt with every passing second. “You’re certain your missing men weren’t helping Drake?”

“Without a doubt,” he said. “We know there may have been a third individual working with them. A man of indeterminate age. We have images of him but nothing clear enough to get a good facial recog.”

“You’re sure they’re inside TFC?”

“Yes sir, as far as we know,” Gaelsen said. “I have tag-teams at the other gates with surveil orders and facial scanners. Nobody’s reported a contact. Unfortunately there’s a steady stream of shuttle traffic between Tsiolkovskiy and the Lunar L-2 Shipyard so it’s entirely possible they’ll leave that way.”

“Fine,

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