Whatever it takes by Jack Brandon

Author:Jack Brandon [Brandon, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-24T22:00:00+00:00

The two of them caught the next flight to Glasgow and on arrival went directly to the helicopter charter company now owned by Macrae. As the tourist season did not start till the Easter weekend, they had a couple of choppers lying idle and were able to fly them out to Craithe immediately.

On a calm, spring evening, they landed on the top terrace of three just below the main front door to the castle, and staff soon appeared to collect their bags and show them into the Great Hall. On introducing Boreyev to Macrae’s parents, the laird of Craithe and his wife Florence insisted they be welcomed in the traditional Scottish way for this time of day – a cup of afternoon tea and hot Scottish scones, dripping with melting butter and jam. But as soon as he could do so politely, Wilder took Boreyev on a tour of the castle and, in particular, up the hundred-foot southeast tower which housed Gemini and the lab and the team.

Even this cursory first tour of the castle, seeing the three terraces below the main entrance to the castle – the only viable helicopter landing spot within a mile of the castle, and after witnessing the potential hazards of the Corryvreckan, Boreyev had a good idea of what was needed by way of security. It was not going to be that easy because next week, when the tourist season began, the castle and its grounds would be overrun by tourists and they would provide excellent cover for someone wanting access to the castle. And, although there were two sets of security key-pads before one could get into the south-east tower, neither were of the latest design and could be bypassed by a sophisticated key-code reader.

One of the anomalies of the castle was that near the main building and its towers there were two much older twelfth century towers with unusual conical tops. They stood right on the cliff-tops, impregnable from attack from either the sea or the immediate ground behind them and the quantum machines had been moved to the tower closest to the laboratory.

So now, in a worst-case scenario, if anyone intent on stealing Gemini did manage to get access to the lab, they would find no trace of a quantum machine and hopefully, might conclude that Gemini was hidden elsewhere.

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