The Gathering Storm: Book 2 of the Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series: (Surviving the Fall Series - Book 2) by Mike Kraus

Author:Mike Kraus
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-05-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

US Government Facility

Six days before the event

The President of the United States is not having a good day. It has been forty-eight hours since the advanced cyber-warfare system codenamed ‘DAMOCLES’ was compromised and he has been briefed on the situation by the Joint Chiefs and the head project managers from the NSA who developed the covert application.

The President paces around the conference room table as he listens to the project managers describe the details on what Damocles is capable of before he interrupts them by picking up a lamp and throwing it at the wall. “Will one of you shit-stains kindly explain to me just how the hell Damocles was available for long enough for an intruder to get their hands on it? Why wasn’t it air gapped to begin with? Jesus f—”

“Sir?” A secretary peeks her head in through the door of the conference room.

“What is it?” The President roars at her as he storms back to his seat. He grips the back of the chair with both hands, turning his fingertips and knuckles white.

“Michael Evans is here, sir.”

“Evans? Who the devil is Evans?”

“The security expert you wanted to see, sir.”

“Oh. Right.” The President frowns. “Send him in.”

A man with disheveled hair, wrinkled shirt, stained khakis and a jacket with leather elbow patches hurries into the room. In his hand is a leather case that he places on the table before sitting down in the closest chair.

“Sorry I’m late, Mr. President.”

“We expected you two hours ago. Where’ve you been?” The President barks in response. Evans, however, barely pays him any mind as he opens his leather case and pulls out several thick stacks of paper. He stands up and begins hurrying around the conference table, dropping a stack of paper in front of each person as he begins to talk.

“Sorry, the printer ran out of ink when we got to the last few copies. Some of you might have to share.”

“What’s this?” A man in a military uniform that appears to have a composition breakdown of seventy-five percent cloth and twenty-five percent medals starts thumbing through the stack of papers before passing it to the man to his left.

“This, I’m sorry to say, is an analysis that I just finished running earlier this morning on the effects of Damocles.”

A murmur passes across the table as the Generals whisper with one another. The one who asked the initial question speaks up again, looking at the President as he does. “I’m sorry, but who are you exactly? I was under the impression that Damocles knowledge was classified at the highest levels.”

The President lets out a smirk as he answers before Evans can. “Dr. Michael Evans is the one who came up with the original theories that brought Damocles into existence. You would know him better as ‘Dr. Howard Chu,’ an alias he went by to protect his standing in the academic community after we bought everything related to Damocles a few years ago.”

“You… you’re Dr. Chu?” The man’s eyes widen and Dr.

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