The Zen Gene by Mains Laurie

Author:Mains, Laurie [Mains, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Trouble

8:40 PM

Western’s sour-gut told him things did not go as planned at the factory. He should have heard from Hunter by now and he was getting worried. He hadn’t heard from Dr. Mann but that wasn’t a surprise the Doctor was a long shot at best and he was probably halfway back to Thunder Bay. It didn’t matter, when he figured out he was not involved, he lost his usefulness. He had no faith in the guy anyway and the fact he did not call was hard to place in the hierarchy of problems facing him.

Earlier in the day the base commander, under pressure from Sergeant Peters’ wife, released the infected soldiers from quarantine and they presumably had gone home. It was bad luck that Mrs. Peters’ father happened to be the Brigadier General in charge of all of Western Canada’s Armed Forces. He was trying to watch television in the bedroom he used as a den but he could not keep his mind on it. He was worried that Hunter messed this up somehow.

“Damn. Why hasn’t she called?”

The words had only left his mouth when the phone rang and he jumped up to get it. It was not Hunter. It was Tom Waters, the assistant base commander. A call from him was not good news.

“Hi Tom,” he said.

“John,” Waters said without engaging in the usual pleasantries. “Do you have a Lieutenant named Patricia Hunter working for you?”

Western swallowed. “Yes sir.”

“A vehicle checked out in her name exploded and burned in Colwood a couple hours ago. What do you know about it?” Waters said.

Western swore under his breath. What the hell went wrong? He needed to get this guy off the phone quickly.

“Yes Tom she is one of ours and she is on a covert assignment in Victoria. I can give you the details if you give me a direct order but I feel I should warn you her assignment is classified and you might not want to know these particular details,” he said.

His lightly veiled warning produced the desired effect. The Major paused for a moment and then said, “Get this thing under control John before it eats someone’s career.” The Major hung up without saying goodbye.

He knew exactly how to play men like Waters. No mid-level bureaucrat would ever order him to reveal classified details he might later want to deny knowledge of. Anytime covert ops were involved the politically sensitive higher-ups knew it was a better career move not to be aware of the details. Now that Waters had been dealt with it was time to figure out what went wrong with his operation.

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