In Black In White (Alicia Friend Book 2) by A. D. Davies

Author:A. D. Davies [Davies, A. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crater of the North Publishing
Published: 2015-07-19T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Can’t be. Can’t be, can’t be, can’t be, can’t be.” Alicia rifled through the paperwork relating to Columbia, papers flying, fluttering to the floor.

“Hey,” Alfie said, “I had a system going on there.”

“Who signed off on the mission?” she said. “Who pushed it through?”

“US intelligence,” Murphy said.

“Which means?”

“The Pentagon,” Alfie said. “Or Langley.”

“And who was there in March?”

“Lamont,” Murphy said.

“Right.” She tossed more pages in the air. “You’re better at this, Don. Can you try?” She took out her phone and called Randolph. He answered straight away and she said, “The story Talbot Blint misreported was a hit on a Columbia-based cocaine factory, wasn’t it?”

“Yeah,” he said. “We just confirmed it. You got to the same place?”

“We have our likely killer in Columbia, advised by US intelligence—the CIA or the Pentagon—to attack a badly-researched facility. Half his team are killed in a firefight, civilians are living on-site, but the site is decimated. General Lamont is advising at the Pentagon at the time, and Jonah Keller pushes the intel through, because he doesn’t want to lose business. Then, Blint paints this as, what, collateral damage?”

“More than that,” Randolph said. “He told viewers that everyone on that plant was either a drug dealer, or living off the proceeds of drug dealing, of death here on America’s doorstep. Et cetera.”

“Then, later, we have a hacker, who possibly found out about the bad intel and can reveal some deep dark secret about the mission, but he’s paid off. How Miller found out, we can’t tell, but maybe Miller wanted the truth to come out. Maybe he went to Pavla. Or the hacking group.”

“Sure. And Brianna Leadley?”

Alicia thought hard, pushed around what she knew. “I can only guess.”

“Guessing doesn’t help.”

Murphy said, “It’s him.” He pointed to the signature and the notation below indicating the mission leader’s name.

Alicia said, “Colonel Elon Buckner ran the op on behalf of the Pentagon. Buckner, who sent Scott Hemingway to monitor this case. He’s the next target, Randy.”

“Stop with the Randy. Who’s the next victim? Buckner? He’s in Virginia.”

“No, Scott is the next target. He must have been on the team, one of those who signed off on the mission. He knew all along that something was up. He knew. That’s why he tried to steer us away from Columbia. Why he stalled on the Black Lion warrant. Randolph, Scott isn’t here to help, he’s here to cover his arse and whatever arses are in the air in Virginia and Washington. We need to get him protected. Where is he?”

“On his way to meet the British embassy’s lawyers.”

“We have to move,” she said. “Now.”

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