The Identity Mine by Dean Crawford

Author:Dean Crawford [Crawford, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Adventure, action, thriller
Publisher: Fictum Ltd
Published: 2015-08-06T04:00:00+00:00

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XXVI

Mitchell glanced over his shoulder at Hannah, who lowered her weapon as she stared at the Chinaman’s tortured face.

‘Everything, Jin Chen, if you want to survive this,’ Mitchell snapped.

The agonized victim sucked in a trembling breath as he replied.

‘We’d been watching them for months, waiting to see what they were doing. We knew about the listening posts in Hawaii of course, but it wasn’t possible to spirit NSA operatives away from there to China without being intercepted. Kowloon was much closer, so we focused on the embassies and CIA fronts based there.’

Hannah stepped forward. ‘What happened to them?’

Jin Chen struggled for breath, mastering his pain.

‘They were interrogated for weeks, deep inside the mainland. The purpose was to break down their will before then showing them kindness and compassion, winning their “hearts and minds” as you Americans say. It took time and a great deal of suffering on their part, but we were helped by America’s media suggesting that they had died in a boating accident: the agent’s families were not looking for them anymore, and the American government was more interested in hiding the existence of its listening posts than protecting its own people.’

‘How far did they help you?’ Hannah pressed.

‘They were invaluable,’ he replied. ‘Our technology leaped immensely just from those four individuals, and the devices they carried revolutionized our understanding of neurology.’

‘What’s the connection to the attacks in America?’ Mitchell pressed.

Chen drew another breath. ‘I don’t know about any attacks in…’

Mitchell slammed the plyers against the man’s groin but did not twist them.

‘Please, no!’ the captive shrieked.

‘Give me a reason not to.’

Chen’s features imploded with the helplessness of his situation.

‘We reverse engineered the neural implant technology that the NSA operatives were found with,’ he said finally. ‘Then we developed it over the next decade. We used the NSA operatives as test subjects, controlling them, improving the work.’

‘What work?’ Hannah asked, but was silenced by a harsh glare from Mitchell.

‘What’s the connection?’ Mitchell demanded once more. ‘How did they end up in the heads of our personnel?’

Jin Chen sagged against his bonds, sweating profusely from the pain wracking his body.

‘We used the Iraq war as a means to test the devices more thoroughly by implanting them into the brains of American servicemen fighting in the conflict. We could not enter Iraq directly, so instead we used our finest operatives disguised as American soldiers to abduct an Iraqi software engineer’s family on the threat that his family would be executed if he did not comply. We used him to smuggle implants into Basra’s hospitals, where they were implanted into American service personnel.’

Hannah stared at the Chinaman in disbelief.

‘You were trying to remotely control human beings?’ she gasped in horror.

‘What happened to the engineer?’ Mitchell demanded.

‘When we were done with him, we executed the engineer and his family, our people disguised as American soldiers,’ Chen replied. ‘We could afford no links back to us so they had to die. But one of them escaped, a teenage boy.’

Hannah felt a pulse of alarm surge through her.

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