The Regulators: Dead Line by Ben Bruce

Author:Ben Bruce [Bruce, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

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“They got him.” Jane smiled as she leaned back in her chair, the phone at her ear.

“Any problems?” Thea knew there wouldn’t have been, but all the same she felt she needed to hear it.

“Went quietly, they caught him on the hop. Seems he really thought you were going to meet him. Turned up on his own with just a side arm.” Jane pulled the phone from her ear and started scrolling through her contacts.

“He always was a cocky bastard.”

“See how cocky he is when he gets to Glasshouse Seven.”

“Do you reckon we’ll be able to get in and see him?”

“I’ll put the request in, but I can imagine there’s going to be a queue of people desperate to see him.” The phone went back to her ear.

“We bagged him. That’s got to count for something.”

“I’ll be sure to mention it.” Then the call she was making connected and Jane’s attention turned to the person on the other end.

Thea half listened as Jane made the case for them to see Jack Quinn as soon as possible. She knew no answer would be immediately forthcoming. Even if a decision was made, the usual bureaucratic procedures had to be followed. The right people in the right places had to believe that they were calling the shots. That was just the way it was. It was all a load of bollocks of course. But it was the game Thea was finding herself playing more and more frequently. At least policing had kept her in some way insulated from it all. Being in Five, it felt as if all there was between her and these people was Jane. And one day there wouldn’t even be Jane. It would be Thea making these calls. Listening to people make themselves and others out to be important or more deserving. All of it for show of course. Thea wondered how long it would take before that became unbearable.

In the meantime, it would be the waiting that would become unbearable. Waiting to hear that Jack had been securely moved to the facility. Waiting to hear when she could go and begin the interview process. Waiting for everything that was about to happen.

Setting up Jack had been simple enough. He’d called her using a scrambled phone, but fortunately for MI5, it had been scrambled using a frequency they’d decoded before. That meant that as soon as that first call was complete, the tech teams downstairs had been able to begin the job of triangulating his position. From there they’d monitored him as he’d left his bolt-hole in Hertfordshire and made the journey around the M25, south towards Gatwick. Algorithms had been used to determine exactly which car was his. From that point on they’d had eyes on him all the way until he had taken his seat in the lobby of the hotel. Thea had called, placating him to ensure he didn’t leave early. Then the police teams that had taken up his trail once he’d crossed the Thames at Dartford moved in.

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