Ground Zero by Don Pendleton

Author:Don Pendleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Worldwide Library
Published: 2013-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Stevens Institute of Technology was located in the midsection of Hoboken known as Castle Point, and had been founded in 1870. This location was presumably why it had a castle gatehouse that, with its rounded and turreted tower, looked like nothing so much as an attempt to hark back to a past that had more connection with another country than the New World. It was cute and quaint and completely useless for security. Even more so when the staff members who were supposed to run security let Schrueders through with no question and were only briefly distracted by the soldier’s cover story of being an IT tech who had been called in to work on a malfunctioning network.

Bolan was glad he was finally able to use the cover he had researched at length for a previous assignment and had then barely used before hell broke loose. At least those hours speed-reading manuals had not gone entirely to waste. On the other hand, in a technology institute that had as big a rep as Stevens, shouldn’t the security have been a little suspicious at an outsider being called in to fix a problem that could—and should—have been easily fixed in-house? No matter. He was in.

* * *

“HANG A LEFT, then second right,” Schrueders muttered as he sat hunched on the front bench seat between Fraser and Amir, the driver.

“Look cheerful, bitch. We don’t want anyone getting suspicious,” Ali muttered savagely from the back of the van.

“Like they wouldn’t already,” Schrueders murmured. “I call in sick, then show up at the gate, and now I’m going to completely the wrong block.”

“Strikes me they don’t know their ass from their elbow,” Mummar replied. “They got plenty of CCTV,” he continued, peering under the horizon of the windshield to get a better look, “but they ain’t got much in the way of patrols, and they don’t seem to be busting any of their sizable guts to chase after us. Lazy-ass security, man.”

“That’s because nothing ever happens here,” Schrueders said in a melancholy tone. “That’s what I like about it.”

“No need for anyone to ever know that anything has ever happened here,” Mummar retorted. “Pretty sure that we shook the guy who wiped Heider’s cell. After we leave here and get the mission complete, there’ll just be the dispatches from home. Nothing left to trace us back here. You can go back to your life, Piet. No worries.”

“Apart from my conscience.”

Mummar laughed. It was harsh and grating. “Man, we all got pasts. And we all got pasts that come back and bite us in the ass.”

Amir pulled the van into a parking space as Schrueders, unable to answer through the pall of gloom that had settled over him, indicated the block they needed. They got out of the van and made their way across to the block entrance, looking around but not noticing the Nissan that had pulled into a space around the block. They didn’t notice the man in black who waited a few moments before getting out of his car and following them at a distance.

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