The Signal (A Delphi Group Thriller Book 1) by John Sneeden

Author:John Sneeden [Sneeden, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: John Sneeden
Published: 2014-09-12T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

THE CALL CAME at precisely 9:07 the next morning. Carmen had just returned from a trip down to the Grande Place to purchase a few staples, and Amanda was blow-drying her hair in front of the mirror. Carmen felt the phone vibrate in her pocket as she walked toward the bed and pulled it out to look at the screen. It was the Oracle.

She motioned for Amanda to turn off the blow dryer. “Petrosino,” she said into the phone.

“Good morning. How are the operative and her sidekick holding up?”

“Fine,” Carmen replied. “I’ve already been out twice. No sign of our friends, so I think we’re in the clear for now. Have you located Zane?”

“That’s why I’m calling. I have good news and bad news.”

“Let’s hear the good news. I think I’ve had enough bad news already.”

“The good news is we finally got the system up and running, and Zane’s secondary tracking device was still sending a signal.”

“Where is he?”

“Strangely, the signal was only a couple of miles from you.”

Carmen set her bags on the bed and then, as was her new custom, walked over to the window and stared out at the square below. “Where exactly? I can leave immediately.”

“You haven’t gotten the bad news yet.”

“Go ahead.”

“There are actually two pieces of bad news… or challenges, as I prefer to say. The first is the location. We believe we may have gotten a misread. Second, we only received pings for about an hour, then they just disappeared altogether. Nothing. Not even a faint ping that would indicate some kind of blockage.”

“And the system was still up?”

Carmen could hear Brett talking in the background. “Just a moment,” said the Oracle, and the sound grew muffled as though he were placing his hand over the phone. After a few seconds the sound grew clear again. “Sorry about that. Carmen, we do have one possible lead. I’m going to put you on speaker, and Brett will take it from here.”

“Carmen?” Brett asked. “I think Dr. Ross told you that we lost our GPS signal around 1:00 a.m., your time.”

“He did.”

“Well, when the sun came up a couple of hours ago, I was able to obtain a few satellite images of the lake. Initially we thought we had nothing. There were a number of smaller craft, probably sailboats, and two of the larger steam-powered tour boats on the east end where we last received a signal. Nothing to get excited about. Well, I had to move on, and I asked Chris to look at everything behind me. The old two-sets-of-eyes theory.”

“Please tell me he found Zane,” Carmen said.

“We won’t know whether he has or not until we get some more information, but we think we may have solved the mystery of the signal transmitting from the middle of the lake. When Chris looked at the photographs, he started with the smaller boats. I think we all agree that it’s not likely Zane would have commandeered one of them, nor is it likely he’d be transported on one if he’d been taken captive.

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