Breach Zone (Shadow Ops) by Myke Cole

Author:Myke Cole [Cole, Myke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military, Contemporary, Science Fiction, Literature & Fiction, War, Genre Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780755394029
Google: 2T0HAQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B00F0LUXO2
Goodreads: 17888311
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2014-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE V

LUNCH

The Ponaturi have an uncommonly strong bond with a race of whalelike creatures they call Kan-Nay, whom they seem to both worship and herd. I say “whalelike” loosely. I saw humpback whales breaching off the coast of Nantucket. The Kanae are at least twice as large.

—Simon Truelove

A Sojourn Among the Mattab On Sorrah

SIX YEARS EARLIER

They spent the night entwined on the couch in her office, Grace softly snoring, Harlequin listening to the rhythm of her breathing, watching her face. As the sun began to fan pale light across the floor, Harlequin’s smartphone vibrated with a text message. BRIEFING GATANAS. NEED YOU TO COVER THE SHOP. COME IN BY 0700.

Harlequin slowly disentangled himself from Grace’s limbs and stood. She moaned, flopped over on her side. “You. Breakfast. Now.”

“Sorry,” he said. “I’ve got to go to work.”

“Tell them I said you could take the day off.”

“I’ll pass it along.” He bent to kiss her, tried to stand, but she pulled him back in, surprisingly strong.

So he kissed her again. And again.

By the time he finally got out of her office, he was rushing, his uniform sloppy, himself unshowered and unshaven. It was absolutely unlike him, and it felt fantastic.

Crucible was gone by the time he arrived, and the NYPD officers at the liaison office didn’t say anything as he raced to the bathroom to clean himself up as best he could. Grace dominated his thoughts, but soon the day-to-day of his work stole them away, and he willingly gave himself up to the familiar rhythm. Special drugs and secret programs were exciting, but he much preferred helping the NYPD enforce the law. There were no hidden agendas there, no secrets. You ran, you paid. It was simple work. Sheepdog’s work.

He stepped out of the liaison office in search of one of the food carts that lined the park outside the office. He spotted his favorite a few car lengths down from its regular spot. He was in luck. Instead of the usual line, there was only a single broad-shouldered man in a gray suit.

Harlequin made his way over, ignoring the stares and sudden stilling of conversations around him. After all his time on this assignment, it was so much background noise.

He moved his way around the man, trying to catch the cook’s eye, but found the cart empty. The man in the suit turned to face him, smiling. Harlequin smiled back. The man was thickly built, with buzz-cut hair and smart sunglasses. Definitely former military, with the easy confident nature that Harlequin had come to note in real operators who had gone on to civilian service. The sunglasses obscured his eyes, but Harlequin could tell he was looking directly at him. He nodded and went back to looking for the cook.

But another man stood in the cart. His suit was black, but otherwise he could have been the twin of the man beside Harlequin. “Lieutenant Thorsson,” the man in the cart said. “I’m Tom Hicks with Entertech. Nice to meet you.”

Harlequin looked back to the man beside him, Drawing his magic and balling his fists.

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