Hunting C-60: Heather Chase FBI Series Book 4 by A.W. KAYLEN

Author:A.W. KAYLEN [KAYLEN, A.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.W. Kaylen
Published: 2023-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Out of the FBI chopper, several black nylon ropes were thrown out into the purple air over the roof of the Channel 60 building. Chase and Acre touched down first, followed by three members of FBI Tactical and two Bomb Squad techs. They figured they had a better chance that the roof wouldn’t be wired up like the ground floor. Bomb sniffers had been deployed around the outskirts of the building and the ground floor was almost certainly booby trapped.

In fact, rudimentary scans detected high levels of explosive material all up the length of the building. The door to the roof could easily have been another trap. But they weren’t going in through the door.

They waited for the bird to fly out of range, then reconnected their ropes to the tough piping running the length of the roof and gathered by the skylight. Chase aimed down with her SIG P228 Custom and blasted the glass clean open, letting a shower of shards fall down to the floor below. No explosion. That was a good sign. They sailed down two, three at a time, touching down on the twenty-second floor, four floors above the main control room that had been held hostage since noon. The people inside had been given the explicit message not to try and leave or call the cops or the building would be blown sky high. Channel 60, for their part, had complied fully with the demands.

“You see, the thing is, most of the staff don’t know what is going on entirely,” said the Chief Network Operator Louie Goldstein. He was a small man with a bald pate, thick yellow-tint glasses, and wild tufts of curly hair at the sides. He wore a brown suit with purple shirt popped over the lapels with the first two buttons open, which made him look like a Las Vegas lounge lizard. He smoked aggressively on a cherry flavor vape as he spoke. “Except, uh, except for the one editor who received the threat. We kept the bomber’s real objectives undisclosed as part of the deal.”

“Part of the deal?” Chase said. “You mean part of their demands.”

“Yes, you could say it that way. Depends on how you look at it. I mean in return Channel 60 has been given certain exclusive uh... Content.”

“Content?” Chase repeated dryly.

“Let me guess,” Acre said, “that string of explosions that went on across Manhattan this week.”

“I knew it—” Chase said. “I knew they were just a prelude to something. They were too benign and random. I should have seen the connection sooner. Every report was made by Channel 60 first.”

“Right,” Goldstein said. “We got tipped off to the scenes—our ratings are through the roof ‘cause of it.” He looked up at the gaping hole in the skylight. “Uh, pun unintended.”

“If you had told us sooner,” Chase said to Goldstein, “we even could have avoided this situation today.”

“I suppose it’s too late for that now,” he said, without a trace of shame or regret.

“Yeah,” Acre said,

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