(eng) Mike Shepherd - Kris Longknife 11.5 by Assassin

Author:Assassin [Assassin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

Before they crossed the brow, Vicky broke the silence. “You have the Longknife file, sir?”

“I do,” her captain said.

“Could you walk me through it, sir?”

“I think I have an hour just now. Shall we do so while the little hellion is still fresh in your mind?” he said. A small smile and a distant look came over her captain as he spoke of the “hellion.”

“Please, sir.”

They went straight to his in-port cabin. He had that particular reader in his safe. Together they flipped through the first couple of pages.

“Kris Longknife joined the Navy straight out of college,” Vicky noted.

“To her parent’s dismay and disgust, I might add, as a parent myself.”

“She was Navy, but she led Marines in the rescue of a little girl,” Vicky noted.

“Which turned out to be an assassination attempt on her.”

“A very complex one,” Vicky noted. “Well done compared to those feeble tries I made.”

The captain just nodded.

“She was at the Paris system when all the fleets from the Society of Humanity came together to celebrate the break up,” Vicky read.

“There are rumors that the fleet review didn’t go quite as planned. You may have noticed that large gold star Kris Longknife sports. It’s Earth’s highest honor, the Order of the Wounded Lion. Ever wondered why Earth gave it to her”

Vicky shook her head.

“Neither do our intelligence boys,” Krätz said.

“She was on Turantic when it almost went to war with Hamilton,” Vicky said, going on. “There was a quarantine of some sort.”

“It turns out that Ironclad Software may have had something to do in faking the quarantine that kept Kris Longknife trapped there.”

Vicky thought back. “I met the owner of Ironclad. Mr. Sandfire isn’t it?”

“Yes. He died on Turantic when the space station blew up.”

“Wasn’t Kris Longknife at the bottom of that?” Vicky asked.

“Even our security types can’t figure out how she might have done it.”

“So that Wardhaven princess is a terrorist.”

“Maybe. Maybe not. There were amusement parks on that space station. Strangely, they all emptied well before the station exploded. Something about the toilets not working.”

Vicky gave her captain a puzzled look. He just shrugged, but there has a hint of a smile as he did so.

Vicky flipped the page. “Oh, she stole Hank’s yacht to escape the station. I wonder how Hank took to that.”

“You will note that he was requested to file a contact report, but failed to do so.”

“Hmm.” Vicky said. Hank was always bragging about the girls he had on his yacht. Was Kris Longknife one of his conquest? Somehow Vicky doubted that.

“And that brings us to those mysterious battleships and their attack on Wardhaven. Only twelve little mosquito boats to defend. It says that Kris was relieved of her command of one of them, then came back and took command of the squadron and the entire defense effort.”

“How did she do that?”

“The analysts are stumped,” Captain Krätz said.

Again, Vicky and her captain found themselves exchanging puzzled glances and shrugs.

“Then she gets command of Naval District 41, an admiral’s billet, and her a lieutenant.

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