The Kafir Project by Lee Burvine

Author:Lee Burvine [Burvine, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 37

IT AMAZED THE surgeon they didn't have to put Sabel under to remove the screwdriver, clean the wound, and sew it all back up. He told them he had allergies, that he'd experienced terrible reactions to general anesthesia in the past.

"Could you guys try it first with a local?" he asked the doctors.

They were skeptical, but they did it. That was good. He wouldn't have to lose time while recovering from a general anesthetic.

He'd only asked for the local because they would have freaked the hell out if they'd seen what he could really tolerate. They'd want to write a goddamn paper on him.

He didn't need the attention.

When it was all over, Sabel told them this was bound to happen one day. "'Cause people are always telling me to go screw myself."

Everyone had a good laugh over that. Har, har.

The surgery took less than thirty minutes. They told him he could be discharged in about forty-eight hours if everything looked good by then.

He slipped out less than an hour after he got his final unit of blood. On the way out, he stole a new pair of pants. Also a week's worth of antibiotics from the hospital's dispensary.

As he hiked out to the stolen Toyota, Sabel thought his limp must look pretty damn obvious. Could make him stand out. He practiced walking without it, in case he needed to later.

Not a problem. Just a shitload more pain.

When he reached the car, Sabel dialed the Office. After a coded exchange with the operator, they redirected the call through a scrambler, then on to an untraceable relay set-up that bounced it all around creation.

A minute later he was talking to Singleton. Bit of a surprise there. Sabel didn't ask why Doubleman wasn't on the job. He didn't really give a shit which one of them chose to run this op. He got paid just the same. And Singleton wouldn't have told him dick anyway.

"I'm back online," Sabel said.

"Understood. Gevin Rees may be dead."

"May be? Okay. I thought we wanted some intel from him."

"He was about to wind up in a scenario where he might have compromised the client's private information," Singleton said. "Per my recommendation, the client opted to eliminate that possibility."

"So, that's it then?"

"No. The operative assigned to terminate Rees may have failed to complete his mission."

And that probably means one of your boys got taken out. See, the TV guy's not so damn easy is he? "Okay. What now?" Sabel asked.

"First, we need to confirm that Rees truly is out of the picture. There was an explosion. We need a visual on the body."

Sabel laughed at that. "Another explosion? You guys running out of ideas over there?"

"Your current cover will get you close enough for verification."

"That ID's only meant to fool civilians." It had been a bit of a rush job, and Sabel didn't think the Office's people had hacked the online records that would back it up.

"It's a chaotic scene there. No one's going to be doing checks."

"So where am I going, then?"

"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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