First Citizen by Rick Bosworth

Author:Rick Bosworth [Bosworth, Rick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734141214
Publisher: UPrising Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-01-05T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 31

Friday, May 28, 2021; 09:10 a.m. (EDT)

Goldberg Condo; Massachusetts Avenue & Tenth Street

Downtown Washington, DC

“How is DC?” Cabot asked.

“Okay,” George replied in a hushed tone. He adjusted his smartphone closer to his mouth. “I forgot how humid it is here. It’s weird being back. Doesn’t feel like home anymore.”

“You have been through so much recently.”

George sighed.

“How is JD?” Cabot asked.

“Good. He’s in the shower now, so we can talk.”

It had been ten days since they’d left Virginia and flown back to Boston. Cabot and George had had the entire first-class row to themselves and were able to talk privately. They’d talked through the entire five-hour flight. George had asked Cabot a flurry of questions about TRENTON, which he’d answered with candor. Most of the conversation had centered on a plan that Cabot had devised.

“Did you find a place for the meeting, like we talked about?” Cabot asked.

“Yeah, Henry… About that. I don’t know. I don’t think it’s gonna work. I know Taylor. Know what he’s capable of. He ain’t gonna go for it. I still like my plan better.”

George got up off the sofa and walked to the bathroom door. The shower was still running, and he could hear JD singing, or rapping, or whatever it was he was doing. He would be in there for a while.

“It will work, George. General Taylor is a villainous megalomaniac, but he will listen to reason. He is not stupid.”

“He’s untethered,” George said. “Through the looking glass. He’s making his own rules now. He won’t listen.”

When it came to Taylor, George and Cabot agreed on one thing: that he was plotting to overthrow the government and establish himself as a military dictator. Where they differed was a reflection of their contrasting personalities. George was pragmatic, a man of action who viewed the world as black and white. Cabot was theoretical, an idea man who viewed the world in infinite shades of gray. George the realist, Cabot the idealist.

Occam’s Razor. The simplest solution is best. For George, it was that straightforward. He had a personal score to settle with Taylor, and he would do it with a sniper rifle. How history, or his country, viewed his actions was of little consequence to him.

Cabot, by contrast, embraced the complexities of life. The endless variables, hypotheses, and but/for causations of the learned mind. A man of staunch logic and reason.

Cabot’s plan reflected his sensibilities. He believed they now had the leverage needed to present Taylor with an ultimatum: He and President Parker must resign immediately, reinstate the secretary of education as head of government, and schedule a new populist presidential election. If not, they would expose him for the military dictator he was and force a recall presidential vote, where he would face an unbeatable candidate: the Father of the Country—George Washington himself!

“I don’t like it,” George said. “And I’m sure as hell not running for president. I don’t want anyone to know about me. My past, who I am. It’s nobody’s business.”

“It’s a bluff, George.

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