Deep State (Bear Logan Thrillers Book 4) by L.T. Ryan

Author:L.T. Ryan [Ryan, L.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liquid Mind Media
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

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Goldstone had given Bear instructions to head to New Glarus, Wisconsin. It was a small town about two hours south, near the Illinois border. Even when Cara’s letters were eventually traced back to there, it wouldn’t indicate where they had been or which direction they had been heading in. From Chicago to New Glarus, they could have been going anywhere.

The Silverado ran smoothly. Bear was glad to be in something bigger and newer than the Camry. Out here in farm country, they’d blend right in. If they ended up heading to New York or D.C., on the other hand, they’d have a hard time disappearing into the crowd.

For her part, Cara remained quiet on the road to New Glarus. She sat with a stack of papers in her lap, reading and re-reading what she’d written. Occasionally, she’d cross off a word and scribble in a new one. She cursed every time they hit a bump and her pen made a mark across the page.

Bear didn’t interrupt her thoughts until they were nearly at their destination. He cleared his throat and waited for her to look up. Her eyes were bleary with the strain of staring at her writing for so long.

Bear cracked a smile. “You trying to win a Pulitzer over there?”

“It has to be perfect.” She was deadly serious. “No misinformation. No mistakes. I have to make sure it’s good enough to publish.”

Bear nodded. A lot was riding on this. It was meant to be the first step in clearing their names. It was meant to push Hughes and his men into doing something stupid. And it was meant to tell the general public that there was a lot more going on here than they realized.

“Do you want to read it to me?” he asked.

Cara blinked. “You wouldn’t mind?”

Bear just shrugged his shoulders. If he was being honest, he needed to know what she had written down. She was right—one wrong word could spell disaster for either one of them. They needed to be more careful than ever from here on out. No slip-ups. No distractions.

Cara shifted in her seat. She sat a little taller. Then she began reading. Her voice took on a different tone, a different cadence. This wasn’t just Cara Bishop. It was Cara Bishop, the reporter. Her words were even, and Bear could tell she had chosen each one with purpose.

She didn’t name names, but she spoke of a government conspiracy that aimed to promote green technology while using it as a front to create a new kind of weapon, all with the aim of disrupting foreign societies with the hopes of controlling them.

But Cara didn’t linger on that. Instead, she focused on the meeting with Mateo, the one she wasn’t even meant to be at. She described her fear and anguish over hearing him murdered, and her subsequent confusion when it was ultimately pinned on her.

Cara had a way of writing that pulled at the heartstrings. She used facts and turned them into emotion.

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