Dead Heat by Peter Cotton

Author:Peter Cotton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC050000, FIC022000, FIC031000
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Published: 2018-07-01T16:00:00+00:00

11

Trainor’s phone buzzed with a text. Her face widened with a smile as she read it. She put the phone down and looked at me, so I knew the text related either to my insistence that I be given the Sheridan material, or to my belief that the local elders should be invited to show us the entrances to the tunnel.

‘Sometimes they surprise you,’ she said.

‘How?’ I said, intrigued, but ready to be disappointed.

‘We’ve been given the go-ahead to ask the Steeple Bay elders to show us the entrance to this tunnel, if it exists. And, depending on their response, we have authority to ask them to take us through it.’

‘That is very surprising. But enlightened, I must say.’

‘Correct on both counts. So, we’ll maintain the exclusion zone and separate the work into discreet units so that only a few of our people will get the full picture of what we’re doing. Regardless, there’s a better than even chance that if we do discover something, it won’t remain a secret for long.’

‘And that’s an enormous pity. Anyway, let’s get out to the road. There’s someone there who can identify the elders we need to talk to.’

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