Vital Force: A Jake Adams International Espionage Thriller by Trevor Scott

Author:Trevor Scott [Scott, Trevor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calabria Publishing
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

24

Eugene, Oregon

The rain had slowed some, but the sun was nowhere in sight. Cliff Johansen was like a trapped animal. He knew that Li had her gun ready with one swift motion, and he also knew she was willing to use it. My God, he thought, she had just killed his old college buddy as if he were a bug. No emotions. No regret. Would she do the same to him? Especially once she got what she needed?

They sat in the white Trooper now in the parking lot of the downtown branch of the Bank of the Pacific. He was numb.

“Just like last time,” Li said. “We transfer the money and you get the program from your safe deposit box. I will shoot you.” She left it at that.

He was sweating now. He rubbed the palms of his hands together and then wiped them on his pants. “Why’d you have to kill Jimmy?”

“I don’t have to do anything but return with this DVD and a way to access the files.” She tapped the DVD in the side pocket of her leather coat. Then she looked down and noticed something. “Damn. Rain fucked up my leather. Should make you buy me a new one.”

“I’ll send you the money with the encryption scheme,” Cliff said.

“Enough bullshit,” she said. “The bank will close in half hour. Let’s go.”

The two of them got out and shuffled through the parking lot toward the back door. Once inside, Cliff stopped and looked around.

“What wrong?” she asked. “This your bank. You should know where everything at.” She grabbed his arm and squeezed at a spot behind his biceps.

He cringed. “It’s been a while, all right?” He nodded his head and they walked to a young woman at a desk.

•

Just behind Cliff and the Asian woman, Special Agent Harris made her way to a center stand and started filling out a withdrawal form. Then she patted her pockets and started searching her purse, her eyes trying to keep from making full contact with her two subjects behind her.

She pulled out her cell phone and punched in a number. Two rings later, Agent Fisher answered in the car outside.

“Honey, I forgot the savings book,” she said.

When she got a nasty look from the woman across from her, she made a sorry gesture and then turned her back, lowering her voice. Now she could watch Cliff and the Asian woman.

“You call me Honey again and I might shoot you,” Fisher said on the other end of the phone. “So, what are they up to this time?”

She whispered now. “Sitting down with a bank official. Looks like another electronic transfer.” Then she said more loudly, “It might be on the kitchen counter.” She glanced back, her hand on the phone, and said to the woman, “Sorry. Thank God the sex is great.”

The woman smiled and went to the next teller.

“I heard that,” Fisher said. “And how’d you know?”

“Focus, Dear. Our man just got up to go somewhere with the banker. The woman is looking right at me.

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