Assassin Zero (An Agent Zero Spy Thriller—Book #7) by Mars Jack

Author:Mars, Jack [Mars, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-12-25T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Zero took no solace in the fact that he was right. The police failed to find the redheaded woman and the little girl with her after the truck crashed. They had expanded their dragnet and continued the search even as night fell, but he knew that there would be nothing to find. She was long gone by now, most likely to rendezvous with the others in her group, wherever the ultrasonic weapon was being kept.

And it was his fault that she had gotten away. He had her in his sights, and he’d failed.

Now he sat alone in a conference room of an Illinois state police department off of I-55, just a few miles north from where he had failed. He stared into the middle distance under the droning buzz of florescent lights.

There would likely be hell to pay over the downed helicopter, the failed roadblock, the truck crashing into a residential backyard. There would be harsh inquiries into how they could have failed, how they had fallen for the distraction.

But Zero wasn’t thinking about any of that. He was thinking about the Bosnian boy he had seen in his crosshairs, in his memory. He was thinking about the boy he had killed.

As much as he tried to convince himself that it wasn’t real, that it couldn’t be real without anything to substantiate it, he simply felt it. The memory had come back as if he was actually there; he had smelled an acrid scent of smoke on the air. He saw the boy’s genuine smile at finding the coin on the ground in the moment before his murder.

Murder. He might as well call it what it was. Not an assassination; it was murder.

And he couldn’t stop playing it over and over in his head.

He heard the conference room door open but didn’t look up until he heard Maria’s voice quietly say, “Hey. Got you this.” She set a white takeout carton on the table. “Chicken lo mein. You need to eat something.”

“Thanks,” he murmured. “But I’m not hungry.”

What if this memory was something that my subconscious was fighting to keep locked away? he wondered. Maybe even before the memory suppressor. What if this was my own mental block, and not an artificial one?

“…from the NSA or our tech team,” Maria was saying.

Zero blinked a few times and tried to get out of his own head. He had barely realized she was talking. “Sorry, what?”

She frowned at him. “I was just saying, we haven’t gotten any new information or leads from the NSA or our tech team. Since we know the woman was here, we’ve narrowed OMNI’s search parameters to a four-state region surrounding Illinois. We can only hope that she tries to contact her team or her people…”

“She won’t.” Zero shook his head. “They played us, and it worked. She won’t let us find her again that easily.”

Maria sighed heavily. “I just don’t understand. What was the point of it? There hasn’t been another attack—not that I want there to be one.

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