The Yellowstone Event (Book 2): A National Disgrace by Maloney Darrell

Author:Maloney, Darrell [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic
Published: 2017-08-14T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

In a listening room several offices away a DHS analyst sat at a workstation listening in. He was a small man by DHS standards, barely meeting the height requirement by wearing three pairs of thick socks and rising up on his toes at his entry physical.

His head was also too small for his body, and as a result he looked like a little kid as he sat there wearing a headset that was way too big for his head.

The man who’d walked up behind him just a few minutes earlier had to stifle a smile. He wanted to comment, “Hey! How come nobody told me it was ‘bring your kid to work day?’”

He held his tongue because Jake, the man with the small head and the headset, was the best at what he did. He was an expert at catching subtle changes in a suspect’s voice tone. At picking up whispered words which stumped other analysts. At breaking through the vain attempts suspects had at speaking in code.

The man standing behind Jake was his supervisor, Tom Copaus, the agent in charge of the detail. It was his call to place Tony and Bud in the same cell in the hopes they’d discus the whereabouts of Gwen Lupson.

Everyone involved in the gathering of the Yellowstone data, to their knowledge, had been neutralized. Some by murder, some by taking prisoner.

Everyone, that was, except for Gwen.

They thought they had her when they blew up her house. Faulty intelligence. One of the surveillance agents was using the restroom when her garage door opened and she left. By the time he came back she was blocks away, the garage door was down again and he hadn’t a clue she’d left.

The other blunder in that operation was that Melvyn left the house to visit his neighbor quite literally at the last minute.

The surveillance team saw him leave. But the go/no-go line had already passed. The three minute delayed timer had already been pressed and couldn’t be undone.

Tom Copaus almost lost his job over that one. He was chewed out up one side and down the other and told in no uncertain terms he had one more chance to get it right.

“Get Lupson. Get her and bring her back, or figure out a way to silence her. Screw up again and you’re gone.”

For Tom Copaus it was personal. It had to be. His job and a prestigious career depended on it.

He stood behind Jake and read his notes, even as Jake jotted down new entries in a separate log book.

And he grew ever more frustrated.

He’d hoped that both men would be terrified when thrown into the cell together.

He’d hoped they’d openly discuss ways to get out of their current predicament.

And that somewhere in the course of their conversation they’d disclose Gwen’s location.

But it hadn’t worked out that way.

It turned out the kid… Anthony, though his dossier said he hated that name and preferred Tony… was unnerved at his sudden loss of freedom.

It was Tony who’d pointed

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