(eng) Mackey Chandler - April 10 by Been There Done That

Author:Been There Done That [That, Been There Done]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“My agent, who was quite certain he was working for the Turks, has had an accident,” Paul said. He appeared genuinely sad.

“Well they won’t trace him back to us will they?” Markus asked.

“No, they could strip him clean and never get the truth out of him, since he never had it himself, But I do regret his inquiries called any attention to agent 71,” Paul said. “It appears 71 was taken behind a security wall and cut off from communicating with us. It seems at the moment that he is as lost to us as the Turk. However, one never knows but what the channel could open up again if there was a turn of events.”

“And we couldn’t trust his reports after such a separation,” Markus said.

“Yes, but there is a risk they would find out 71 is a EU agent and it’s better they never know we had one in place. They might suspect another.”

“Yet they have no idea why the Turk wondered about 71, since he had no idea himself. For all they know 71 was a target, maybe someone who the Turks thought to recruit. That doesn’t mean they are going to strip mine him if he’s useful to them. You can find reasons to suspect anybody,” Markus said.

“Only if you are paranoid,” Paul said with a smile.

“Oh yeah,” Markus agreed, and did a perfect dead-pan scan each way with crazy eyes.

* * *

Hershwin walked up to Adam’s work station all relaxed and friendly. He shoved a photo under Adam’s nose and asked, “Do you know this fellow?”

Adam looked at him hard, and tried to remember.

“I might have seen him. He looks vaguely familiar, but I’m sure I’ve never talked to him. If you need to know anything important about him I can’t be any help at all. Certainly nothing that would touch on the project,” he added.

“Well crud, thanks anyway,” Hershwin said and walked away.

Hershwin reported to Liggett, hoping he wouldn’t proceed to more drastic methods, because Adam was proving to be a very skilled worker.

“We had him scanned every which way sort of capping him for a full brain scan and he had no warning or way to prep to answer,” Hershwin told Liggett. “You can ruin a man’s usefulness to you with unfounded suspicions and capping him when he’s clean. People resent it. He’s doing good work. He didn’t skip a single heartbeat or flicker a pupil. You just can’t fake innocent that well, not even drugged up and conditioned. He really doesn’t know the guy except the faint doubt you get trying to classify any stranger who looks like a hundred others you’ve seen, and he might have seen this fellow in the corridors or cafeteria.”

“OK. Well, he won’t again,” Liggett promised.

* * *

“Their message was quite clear,” Pierre Broutin told his Prime Minister. “I will note also that Heather let April and Jeff speak for her. The three of them act as a unit and one never contradicted the other. Jeff informed me they don’t have any need of He3.

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