The Need for Fear by Oisín McGann

Author:Oisín McGann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Published: 2015-07-01T17:06:35+00:00

Chapter 9: Going Public

The local library wasn’t far from Sharon Monk’s flat, so Chi decided to use the computers there. It was time to look at Robert’s thumb drive. If there was malware on it, he’d rather let it loose on a public computer than his own, even if it did make him feel a bit guilty.

On his way there, Chi made no attempt to sneak around or evade detection. He had no wish to look a fool again. If someone wanted to follow him, let him. He was done hiding—for the simple reason that he didn’t seem to be much good at it.

He booked time on a computer and sat down, leaving the laptop in its bag on the floor. Slotting the key into the front of the PC tower, he opened the folder. There were dozens of documents, all of which looked innocent enough until you saw that some were sales invoices for surplus military supplies bought in Eastern Europe as well as large quantities of ammonium nitrate and diesel. So this was the stuff, according to Robert, that Sharon Monk had gathered as part of her investigation. There were purchases of drugs too: a generic form of sodium thiopental, the stuff films always claimed was a truth serum, and a whole bunch of hallucinogens.

There were dockets for the loading of cargo onto freighters, reports on border controls across Europe and into Asia, the purchase of diamonds in South Africa, and bank transfer statements. Chi whistled softly. Individually, each piece looked legit, but if this added up to what he thought it did, it was dynamite. Here was what appeared to be documentary evidence of weapons and explosives being smuggled across continents, with enough of a paper trail to prove who funded it.

Chi rubbed his eyes, then pinched the bridge of his nose. Robert was right; Sharon was on to something, but she hadn’t put all the pieces together yet. She didn’t know what it was all intended for. She didn’t know about the brainwashing, or the plan to start a war. Chi would have loved to take this and run with it, but that would be stealing her work, something he could never do. And besides, to be taken as seriously as it deserved, it needed a major, mainstream news outlet—if it was possible to find one that wasn’t just a mouthpiece for the puppet masters who dominated the globe. This was as big a story as the lies that started the war in Iraq, or the Snowden revelations about the NSA. It was a beautiful, seemingly verifiable, monster of a conspiracy. Chi really needed to meet this woman and pass on what Robert had told him. Goddammit.

Chi found himself thinking again of the conversation with Harriet Caul. Something wasn’t right about this whole thing. There was an inkling bouncing around inside his head, some little snippet of information logged away in his mental filing system, crying out for attention. Instead of trying to snare it, which

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