Simon Sees (An Art Jefferson Thriller Book 5) by Ryne Douglas Pearson

Author:Ryne Douglas Pearson [Pearson, Ryne Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty Five

They were at the last door.

Andrew Wyland knew this from the previous run-throughs he’d watched. So far, the Blue Team Leader’s estimation of the facility’s interior layout had been nearly perfect, just an odd door here or unexpected corner there to throw things momentarily off. But they hadn’t been stopped, and now the Blue Team Leader and the two operators with him had come to what should be the last barrier before reaching Simon Lynch.

The image buzzed with occasional static, the signal from deep within the structure compromised. But the encrypted broadcast never cut fully out. Enough had been invested in the operation, including the ability to monitor it from afar through a series of repeaters on the helicopters and satellites high above, that anything less would be unacceptable. The bottom line was, Wyland had to know, had to see, when their prize was out of the facility which held him and aboard the extraction helicopter. Only then could he breathe, knowing that he could inform his employer that he’d done what was expected of him, saving his own skin.

And others even more precious to him.

“Ready to breach,” the Blue Team Leader reported.

One of his operators stepped forward and placed a small charge near the electronic lockset. Despite the technology, there was still a mechanical operation beneath, and as the detonation occurred the bolt was severed and the door swung forward.

“Get him,” Wyland quietly urged, his thumb off the transmit button.

The team moved forward in the near darkness, just the glow from several computer monitors in a space off the hallway breaking the artificial night. The critical systems must have been on a separate power backup, Wyland thought, running on battery supplies. Across from those still humming systems would be the door, and on the other side of it the man they’d come for would be waiting.

Except…

“Door is open,” the Blue Team Leader reported as they approached the opening.

Wyland’s heart raced suddenly. In all the run throughs, in every detailed practice session, the door was closed. There was every reason to expect it to be. You wouldn’t just leave the way open to your most valuable asset.

Unless…

“No,” Wyland said to himself.

At the same instant he spoke his dread, the men he’d sent to bring him Simon Lynch rounded the edge of the doorway and entered the room beyond the open door.

“One guard down,” the Blue Team Leader said. His scan of the room was transmitted the thousands of miles to London where his employer could plainly see what he was. “He’s not here.”

* * *

Audra stopped cold in the hallway at the sight of two dead bodies lit by the bluish hue of a computer monitor.

“Carlton,” she said, her voice barely a whisper. “Gary.”

Her two colleagues lay dead, piled atop one another, blood pooling beneath them.

“No…”

Emily stepped forward, pulling Simon with her. They’d been led to the corridor by the technician. It was a roundabout path to the building’s only exit. A way that the woman leading them knew intimately.

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