Tek Kill (The TekWar Series Book 8) by Shatner William

Author:Shatner, William [Shatner, William]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781480465039
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

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DAN stepped out of the Gunmanship Seminar Room and into the gray academy corridor.

A hand grabbed his upper arm.

“Now what, Molly?” he inquired as she hurried him along the walkway.

“We have to consult with Rex/GK-30.”

“Nope, you have to. I have to hit the Study Lab and work on my Electronic Forensics CD-paper. Otherwise I’m going to—”

“This is more important. It’s about Susan.”

“Something happen to her?”

“I think so.” Molly tugged him off along a side corridor.

“Explain, huh?”

“I phoned Susan’s father this morning—to see how she was doing,” said Molly. “He wasn’t there and that Mrs. Stackpoole took the call.”

“The wicked stepmother.”

“She’d like to be, yes. Anyway, Dan, she didn’t admit anything outright—but she dropped a few hints.”

“And?”

“I got the impression that Susan’s not there, isn’t at home at all,” she told him. “They’ve sent her someplace else.” They’d reached the door of the Background and ID Room and Susan stopped.

“You’re afraid she’s back with that Dr. Stolzer she was telling us about?”

Molly nodded, tapping on the door softly. “Some terrible place like that,” she said. “Rex is going to help us find out exactly where.”

THE MORNING SUN was bright in the clear Caribbean sky. It sparkled on the silver-plated guidebot as he led the five tourists and Jake across the stone courtyard of Castle Maldito. Three ancient cannons were installed at one edge of the wide courtyard, aimed out to sea.

“From here, the pirates of old could withstand any assault,” the robot was explaining. He gestured at the slanting green hillside and the bright ocean beyond, his yellow straw hat held in his glittering metallic right hand.

“Lot of bunk,” remarked the slim teenager who was standing near Jake, shaking her blond head skeptically. “Those look like fake guns to me.”

Jake nodded, moving away from the rest of the party.

From the low wall around the stone circle one could see a good part of this side of San Peligro Island. About a half mile below, stretching out between the forest and the white beach was the NewTown Pharmaceuticals facility. It consisted of three low oval-shaped buildings made of plastiglass and neowood. A high metal strut fence circled the entire setup and there were guardbots at every entrance.

As he stood studying the place, the band of his wrist-phone started to throb, telling him someone was trying to contact him.

After glancing, casually, around, Jake crossed the sunbright courtyard and ducked inside the gray stone castle. He trotted up a short staircase and slipped into a small room. There was nothing inside except an ancient-looking chest sitting on the gray floor near one of the high, narrow windows.

Jake stationed himself by a window and activated the phone. “What?”

Karin Tanoshi’s thin face materialized on the tiny rectangular screen. “You left a serious mess behind you, Cardigan,” she said, anger and disapproval in her reedy voice.

“Nobody’s supposed to call me unless—”

“The SoCal Police would like very much to talk to you about that brawl you got into,” the Cosmos Detective Agency operative informed him. “It seems, Cardigan,

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