The Third Temple (Sam Reilly Book 7) by Christopher Cartwright

Author:Christopher Cartwright
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2017-07-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

The Gulfstream G650 flew smoothly in a westerly direction at a comfortable 48,000 feet and well above the raging storm below. It flew toward Malta where the Maria Helena was having minor repairs and maintenance completed while her crew was taking vacation leave. Sam sat at his desk flicking through the digital photographs taken from the hidden chamber inside Derinkuyu. Opposite him, Tom searched the internet for any evidence of a pyramid ever being found anywhere near the Namibian desert.

Sam looked up from his screen. “You having any luck locating that pyramid?”

Tom closed his laptop. “If it did exist, any record of it has long since been destroyed. There’s nothing on the internet.”

“What about the Emerald Star?”

“There’s been a few hits, but nothing that matches that time period.”

“So we’re at a dead end?”

“Yeah,” Tom said.

Sam picked up the phone at the end of the table and dialed a number from memory. The phone rang four times before being picked up by its owner.

“You’re getting slower, Elise,” Sam said. “I remember a time when you used to pick up before it reached its second ring.”

“Is that so?” she asked. “And I remember a time when you didn’t interrupt me when I was on vacation.”

Sam smiled. In the past three years since he’d hired her for her inhuman ability to solve complex puzzles and hack any computer on the planet, he hadn’t recalled Elise ever taking a proper vacation. “That’s right, you said you were going away while the Maria Helena had her maintenance. Where are you?”

“Laying on a sunny beach in a town whose name most people can’t pronounce, and where few people will ever go looking to find me.”

“Not anymore,” Sam said. “I need you to get back to civilization and use that incredible mind of yours to locate something for me.”

“What?”

“Two things, actually.”

“Go on,” she said.

“A pyramid in Namibia and a ship last seen in 1655 bearing the name, Emerald Star.”

“Sure.” Her voice betrayed her usual surprise by what Sam wanted from her, as though for all her knowledge and skills, he basically wanted her to use Google for him. “You want a pyramid that didn’t exist and a pirate ship?”

“Yeah, something like that.” Sam flicked over to the third photo of the pyramid on his computer. It was real, he was certain of it. “How long will it take you to get off the beach and find me some answers?”

“Oh, I’m not planning on leaving the beach today. I’m on vacation, remember?” Her voice was teasing.

“Elise, this is important. It’s about Billie.”

“Relax, I’m already looking it up for you.”

“You take your laptop to the beach?” Sam asked.

“What can I say? I’m still a nerd even if I’m on vacation. And with the free satellite connection the company so generously provides, why shouldn’t I?”

Sam smiled as he listened to the sharp staccato of fingers tapping on a keyboard. He waited on the line for her to tell him how long it would take to find something.

He didn’t have to wait long, before she spoke.

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