Harvey Bennett Thrillers Box Set 2 by Nick Thacker

Author:Nick Thacker [Thacker, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General Fiction, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 2013922337
Amazon: B07MP1YKQG
Publisher: Turtleshell Press
Published: 2018-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

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SHE FOUND THEM AROUND THE next bend, behind the next set of glass doors. She was breathless, her heart pounding, still thinking about the laboratory worker named Susan who was huddling behind a table next to Dr. Sarah Lindgren, waiting and watching the doors. Julie used Dr. Lin’s card and waited for the door to unlock, once again thanking whoever it was in the facility that hadn’t yet seen Lin’s access and shut it down.

“Dr. Lin?” Susan asked.

Julie shook her head. No more explanation needed, she thought.

The two women stared at her, but neither asked a follow-up question.

“Why did you stop?” Julie asked.

“We were talking,” Susan said. “This is halfway around the ring, so it’s the farthest we can get from the elevators on the other side.”

Julie saw that she was right; there were no elevators on this side of the ring. However, there was a set of doors, unmarked, behind Sarah’s and Susan’s location. She wasn’t sure where the doors led, but they were solid, thick doors, and an ID reader mounted next to it. Wherever those doors go, they don’t lead into a broom closet.

The rest of the room was relatively bare, a few metal tables and stools, but the tables were empty and the stools had been tucked beneath each table. It looked as though no one had been in here since it was set up.

The two walls on the outside and inside of the curved room were metal as well, and upon closer inspection Julie noticed that the walls weren’t a solid, singular sheet of metal, but box-like sections of metal, hammered into place at the corners. The sum effect was a mural of silver, the metallic sheen of the faces of the squares bouncing the dim light back into the room.

It was an odd design for a room, Julie thought, and it was even more odd that someone had decided the room needed to be designed. She examined the wall more closely, feeling around the edges of one of the squares of metal.

“We didn’t know where the guards were,” Sarah added. “We figured it was safest here, away from where they’d likely be coming from.”

“They’re behind me,” Julie said. “They don’t have a card, though, so they’re going a bit slower. We need to keep moving.”

“We shouldn’t go around all the way, though,” Susan said. “There are cameras outside the elevators. They’ll know exactly where we are as soon as we get close to the front of the ring.”

Julie figured the scientists were used to calling the side of the ring that featured the elevators and Subshuttle entrance the ‘front,’ which meant they must have been standing somewhere in the back side of the submerged ring. “Okay,” she said. “But they don’t have cameras down here?” she subconsciously began examining the walls and ceilings, looking for the small, black surveillance cameras she’d seen in the hallways of the hotel in the central ring.

Susan shook her head. “No, not down here in these back labs. Crawford wouldn’t allow it, and Dr.

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