The Nosy Neighbor by Fern Michaels

Author:Fern Michaels
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary Fiction, Literary, Contemporary, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 9780743477499
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2005-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

10

“And a dead room would be…what?” Wylie growled. “We’re just ordinary people here in case you haven’t noticed. There doesn’t appear to be anyone dead in this room, so I have to assume it means something else entirely.”

Lucy’s jaw dropped as she gazed around the small room. Something lumpy with the look of Styrofoam had been sprayed onto the walls and ceiling. The door was padded with strange-looking quilted material that resembled shiny plastic. The floor was intertwined wire-and-rubber matting. A scary-looking room in her opinion. As she tried to absorb what she was seeing, she could hear Mitch and Drew explaining to Jake and Wylie what they were analyzing on the computer table. Since she didn’t understand the high-tech talk, she only heard snatches that left her even more clueless than before. Underwater parabolic eavesdroppers, fish-eye camera, microphones, a video console for the fish-eye camera, hard laser microphones. What she finally deduced from their conversation was that the room enabled whoever was in it to have conversations that were truly secure.

“What’s that?” Lucy asked, pointing to the center of the table.

“I’m glad you asked,” Mitch grimaced. “They’re the latest in technology. The mikes and headphones enable people to talk on the phones face-to-face, have conference calls secure in the knowledge that whatever they say stays safe in this room. That’s why it’s called a dead room.”

“Why would someone need something like that?” Jake asked.

“I don’t have any answers, Jake. You could try asking the feds or the guy himself. There isn’t anything more we can do here. So, let’s check out the basement, drink our coffee, and head for home. The big question is, do you want all this stuff we dismantled activated or what?”

“No!”

“Okay, Miss Lucy, you’re the boss. We will lock the door and reset the house alarm, though. You don’t want strange people crawling around in here. You have the card to the gate so if you want to come back, you can just swipe it. I’ll write down the code to the alarm system. You can come and go as you please. A word of warning, Miss Lucy. Somewhere, someplace, the person who installed all this hardware is going to know it’s been compromised. They probably knew the minute we started dismantling the system. And before you can ask, the people who did this are experts. Your guy probably brought them in from other countries. It’s not the kind of security you want your neighbors or your local security people to know about.”

Drew fixed his gaze on Lucy and Wylie. “You might want to give some serious thought to relocating or else have the feds give you some kind of protection. From the looks of things, there’s been some serious stuff happening here. It’s anyone’s guess if it is still going on. The federal agents were right when they told you it was dangerous, and you could get killed. Think about it.”

Like I can think about anything else. Lucy nodded.

Mitch shrugged, his eyes worried. “Let’s have that coffee before we head back to your house.

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