Feed by James Frey

Author:James Frey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The Minoan house wasn’t a house at all. It was a compound. All the buildings in Istanbul were crammed together, and to get to the Minoan house you had to walk down an alley about twenty yards and then take a left into a parking area. A slim metal door opened into the compound, and from our vantage during a scouting mission, we couldn’t tell if that door went into a building or a courtyard.

We’d been in Istanbul for a week, and only had five days left to figure out the best way to set off the bomb. So far, our trip had been careful and slow: we’d rented a truck, figured out where the Minoans were, and traced three different routes between their compound and our hotel (which we’d purposely gotten on the opposite side of the city). We visited the fish market, and a few of the tourist spots, just in case someone was following us.

Our scouting mission had the two of us holding a map and walking down the alley, arguing about where we were and which way we needed to go to get to Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.

Following our cover story, we were dressed in normal Western clothes—jeans and a T-shirt for me, a long, casual sundress for Kat.

We’d discovered that Turkey was a blend of Middle Eastern and European influences. Many of the men there were wearing jeans—even some women. In some ways it wasn’t all that different from London.

When we were done finding the complex, we went to a café with outdoor seating, along a bustling street, about a half mile from the compound. I ordered four plates of mezes—something akin to appetizers—that we’d enjoyed the most since our arrival.

“It’s going to be tough,” Kat said. “We don’t know what’s on the other side of that wall. It might be a courtyard or it might be a roof. Remind me of the detonation time again.”

I looked at my watch, doing the math to compare the current time to California time. “Two in the morning. So we’ll have the cover of darkness. Much easier.”

“I don’t think so,” Kat said. “I think they’re always watching their place. I bet they have people watching that alley twenty-four hours a day. Couldn’t you feel it, Mike? I could tell we were being watched.”

“Yeah,” I said. “I’m just saying that it’ll be easier in the dark.”

“Unless they have more guards at night.”

I took a bite of something called borek, which seemed to be a savory cousin of baklava. “Do you still think that these guys are aware of the meteor?”

“Definitely,” Kat said. “Look over there.” She pointed to a newsstand. “There’s an English paper over there with US news. And from what Agatha said, all of the Players watch for astronomical signs, just in case they represent the aliens. They’ll have known about it, and they’ll be waiting for an invitation to see if that was the true sign of the Calling.”

“What if that meteor was

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