The Ice Chasm (Harvey Bennet Thrillers Book 3) by Nick Thacker

Author:Nick Thacker [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2016-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR

Valere

“MONSIEUR VALÉRE, THE CHINESE — TO the compound. — Must not — at all costs.”

Valére sipped a bottle of water and leaned back as far as he could against the hard, metal wall. He was strapped into the most uncomfortable chair, nothing more than a flat bench with a few cargo straps. He felt like a forgotten package, forever in transport to a faraway destination.

“— You read me? Valére?”

Francis Valére couldn’t stand the phone cutting in and out. He appreciated technology, and specifically improvements in that technology. His company had been responsible for some amazing advances in computing, yet he was constantly disappointed in the lack of reliable telecommunications equipment he found himself using.

He shook the phone, and tapped it on his leg. I don’t care if you’re a thousand miles away under a thousand feet of ice, he thought. Figure out how to make this connection work.

“I cannot understand you,” he said. “Please repeat that last sentence.”

“…Chinese must not find the array. We have to protect it at all —“

“Yes, that is the mission,” Valére said. “So what is the problem?”

“Sir, they are inside the — Angela Stokes is dead, and there is — group.”

“I am sorry, did you say there is another group?”

“Yes, sir. I recognized Joshua Jefferson from the company files.”

Valére physically shook, both from his medication as well as the sentence that had just been uttered, loud and clear, by the voice on the other end of the phone.

Joshua Jefferson. The man that had caused him so much trouble, and so much money. Valére had maneuvered well to take over the vast majority of the company’s operations, and the acquisition of new biological technology a company in Brazil had created was the final step in a long chain of events he had put into motion years ago. He was nearing the end of this journey, and Joshua Jefferson was the man who would deliver the research to him.

Instead, Jefferson betrayed him. He had completely abandoned his men to die in the jungle, killed his own brother, and done his best to ensure the company would never find the research it was looking for.

Thankfully Valére had other resources deployed at the time, and his team in Antarctica was able to piece together most of the fragmented data he had retrieved from the company. It was incomplete, but his scientists had enough creativity to fill in the gaps. The array they were working on benefited greatly from the research and new technology, and it was only a matter of time before they were up and running with a prototype.

Now, Valére was on his way to Antarctica himself, to participate in the final testing phase. He had called for a full deactivation and evacuation of the station, leaving only the security teams in place. He had been aware that there was a Chinese contingent nearby, and that they had marched on the station, but he had every expectation that it would be dealt with before he landed. He

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