The Truth Keepers - a gripping international thriller you won't be able to put down (Kate Morden Series Book 1) by Jacqueline Ward

Author:Jacqueline Ward [Ward, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Iraq, new york, 9/11, Cyprus, women, war
Publisher: Novelesque
Published: 2017-05-20T06:00:00+00:00

7.

A car picks us up and we head back to Broome Street. We’re almost there when Karl calls me.

“Another one. Peter Sidiquee. One of the US contacts close to the Iraqi police heard about it. Same MO. Hands cut off this time.”

Peter Sidiquee is listed on the paper as a geneticist too. I hurl myself out of the car and rush up to HQ where Elliot is sitting calmly. Carey calls me as soon as I reach my screen.

“Kate. Turns out Peter Beresford was working at City University in London.”

“Great. Thanks, Carey. I’ll get Karl to locate him. So we have all the names except one now. And one of them is Krommer.”

“Yeah. No trace of Ifani, Talabani or Pearson, though.”

“Right. We just found Sidiqee. Like the others.”

Carey’s silent, which I know isn’t a good sign.

“Five to go, two identified. That puts a different slant on things. Almost unbalanced.”

I sit up straight. Slant on things. Unbalanced. Those were red alert words between myself and Carey. There’s something here that he needs me to know that can’t be said in public. I don’t miss a beat.

“Yeah. I see what you’re saying. I wonder if it would be worth talking to Assadi again?”

He answers immediately. And it isn’t what I wanted to hear.

“I’m not sure. I don’t think I have the time.”

I know what this means. He’s trying to tell me that he still hadn’t found them. The situation is critical. I look around the room. Tom is hanging about around the door. Elliot is busy researching the document’s origin.

“OK. I’ll do my best to arrange something then. But it’s not too likely.”

He would know now that he needed to somehow transmit the information he had in code. I go through the decoding scenario in my mind, grappling with my reasons for not speaking up about it. After all, it isn’t my fault that my father made me do it. I was a child. But then I smelt the gun smoke again, and felt the empty space in my heart. He was a traitor. I’m so entangled with him that my own life would disintegrate if any of my colleagues knew what had happened.

Then there’s the question of the information. Once decoded, it would be available for whichever power has it to use it. How do I know that it would be used for the common good, and not for destruction? I suddenly get an insight into why it had been hidden for so long, why the twelve names on the list were hell-bent on keeping it under wraps. Even at the cost of their own careers; because whatever this was, it was dangerous. And, if everything went to plan, once I found it and decoded it, I could make sure it’s safe.

If our opposition got here first, who knows what would happen? People hell bent on getting their own way and killing anyone in their path. Terror mongers. They might have been well on the way to having the biometric key, but they would need me to decode it.

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