The White House by Whitley Strieber

Author:Whitley Strieber [Strieber, Whitley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466863293
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“FLYNN, WHY do you put me through crap like this?”

“I did what I had to do.”

He and Diana were walking together in Dumbarton Oaks Park, Flynn having taken Morris’s advice and brought her here so they could talk outside of earshot of any listening devices. He wouldn’t tell her about him, though, not yet, not until he had a clearer idea of what to say.

“That’s all you’ve got for me?”

“It’s what happened.”

“You walk out of the house and just keep going. The next thing I hear, Mossad’s signaling that an American has been captured by the Revolutionary Guard and it’s damn well you. Can’t you ever get it into your thick skull, there’s a chain of command?” She stopped suddenly. He could hear her gobbling back sobs. “You make me so damn mad.”

He felt her pain, and his own regret. But he couldn’t express feelings like that; it just wasn’t in him. He wanted to be tender, but it did not work. He said, “The information I obtained is crucial.”

“I need to know what to do with it, Flynn.”

“That’s our next step.”

“Tell me what happened out there. I want details.”

“I was captured immediately. I was tortured. I was helped to escape by what might have been a Special Forces operation. Or I got away from the Revolutionary Guard while they were being too clever for their own good. I’m not sure which. In any case, I escaped and by some miracle survived sharks and a storm at sea. Those are the details.”

“You were tortured by an American agent who wished to hell he didn’t have to hurt you and admired your iron resolve, as he should. You were allowed to escape thanks to an operation mounted by Mossad that appeared to be U.S. Special Forces, and our guy saw you to the coast. The Arabs on that fishing boat were Saudi agents sent out to find you after you missed the sub.”

“They were killed. They drowned.”

“They were taken aboard the carrier fifteen minutes after you arrived in the sick bay. You were an actor in a play, Flynn, from the moment I caught up with you.” Still gobbling sobs, she gripped his hand as if it were the last ledge on the tallest building in the world. “That agent—the one called Davood Ghorbani—he risked his operation, his life, everything to get into that torture chamber with you. They would have tortured you to death, Flynn, if we hadn’t had him there. You owe him your life.”

“I’ll have to thank him.”

“When he comes out, you sure as hell will. If he does. He’s at risk now.”

“Because of me.”

Her silence accused him, and that made him angry. “We can’t lose sight of the bigger picture. If we can’t find a direction to go in, this is all going to happen before we have a chance to stop it.”

“What do you suggest?”

“We figure out two things. How they intend to get rid of us without destroying the planet, and why they need the president, not to mention the Iranians.

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