The Spy Game by Remington Kane

Author:Remington Kane [Kane, Remington]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Year Zero Publishing
Published: 2018-06-22T16:00:00+00:00

24

Building Trust

Cal Vernon ordered the guards to haul Langren’s corpse away. Two of the five men that had escorted Tanner and Langren had taken positions outside the door upon arriving. They must have been expecting to hear the gunshot that killed Langren, because they never entered the room to see what had happened.

After two other guards carried the body away that left Tanner in the library with four men, Vernon, the young guard, and Owen Bishop, who had an older guard standing behind him. That guard was the same one who had apparently given Bishop a beating.

Bishop looked paler than he had before witnessing Langren’s murder. Tanner wondered if he was one of those men who ordered violent acts to be done while never committing them himself.

Vernon spoke to the young guard standing beside Tanner.

“Keep an eye on Ryan. I’m not sure I trust him yet.”

“I’m a good man to have around,” Tanner said.

“We’ll see,” Vernon told him. He was all smiles as he holstered his gun and walked back over to the desk to speak to Bishop.

“You’re done, Owen. Langren’s dead, I control your bodyguards, and I have the data drive.”

Bishop let out a sob before speaking. His deep voice still resonated but gone was the quality of confidence it had exuded.

“The information is encrypted. You’ll never be able to access it.”

Vernon took out his phone and recited a long alpha-numeric sequence he read from a file. Bishop must have recognized it because he slumped in his seat.

“How the hell did you get that?”

“I hired a genius computer hacker. He took apart those samples of the database you released to prospective customers, along with the laptop you used to do it. Don’t ask me the details, but he managed to come up with the code.” Vernon held up the golden data drive by its chain. “Now that I have this, I have everything I need to take your place.”

“Most of my people won’t follow you and they’ll want to know what happened to me.”

Vernon chuckled.

“I don’t give a damn about your organization. All I want is money, and I’ll get a ton of it when I auction off the data.”

“You’re going to sell it to the highest bidder?”

“That’s right. A one-time deal and I’m done.”

“You’ll still be hunted down by the U.S. and other countries.”

“No, Owen. You’ll get the blame at first. By the time they catch on, I’ll have a different face and a new name to go with it.”

Bishop sobbed again as he slumped down in his seat behind the desk.

“Please don’t kill me, Cal. I’ll do anything you ask, just don’t kill me.”

Bishop’s sobs turned into blubbering and he made a pathetic sound of despair as he slid to the floor beneath the desk. The bodyguard who had been standing behind the chair scowled at his former boss, then looked away in disgust.

Vernon was standing to the right of the desk and taking in Bishop’s emotional display with obvious pleasure showing on his face.

When Bishop’s sobbing ceased without warning it accentuated how silent everyone else had become.

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