Mindsight by Dean Kenyon

Author:Dean Kenyon [Kenyon, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: technothrillers hacker, Action & Adventure, cyberpunk science fiction, medical thrillers prime, Technothrillers, cyberpunk fiction
Publisher: Wonderland Press
Published: 2018-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN — Off-Balance

I dropped off the folder at one of the PEI dropoff locations, which looked like an all-night convenience kiosk. The kid at the counter was a trainee. PEI had started out by recruiting people who had experience from other areas that they wanted—former cops and FBI agents, private investigators, accountants, trial lawyers, computer programmers of the legal and illegal stripes, RNs, chemists, psychologists—all sorts of specialties. You could cross-train, and you had to spend at least part of the time passing along your knowledge. Teaching other agents. Myself, I had taught a few handgun classes, a few classes on current interrogation procedures, and maybe a random class or two about “adjusting” a crime scene. When to do it and when you didn’t dare to. And why.

But now PEI was starting to mix in other types of agents. Specifically, they were looking for some that they could “raise” on their own, without having to get rid of old habits they didn’t want. The kid was one of those types. I didn’t think it was a great idea, personally. I didn’t like the idea that some of these recruits weren’t bringing new information or techniques to the table, and I really didn’t like the idea that they were getting “programmed” to be loyal to PEI without question. Not that I knew that for sure. But that’s what it looked like.

The kid took the file, ran the pages through a scanner, then sealed the materials in a metallic-looking bag and dropped them into a safe under the desk for pickup later. It was safer than leaving it in my apartment. And now I could be sure that the information would go straight into the files.

After that I went back to my apartment, changed clothes, and took off for the tunnels. I had ten minutes to spare.

· · ·

I was escorted to a different location, taken around the edge of the cavern this time, to another set of tunnels branching off the main cavern. They looked older. You could see the chisel marks on the wall, as well as the places that hadn’t been carved out. The original tunnel that had been created by water flowing through cracks in the rock over thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.

The tunnel led into a basement parking garage. I was taken from the parking garage through another underground tunnel that led to a second parking garage. Neither one contained any passenger cars. The second parking lot contained a few self-driving cargo trucks with the logo for a dairy company that I recognized.

I was taken to the emergency stairs and told to go downward. My escort, who had been one of the guards at the entrance to the main cavern, stayed at the top of the stairs.

The air smelled like mushrooms. A lot like the mushroom tea that I’d been served the last time I’d met with Ricki Naab, as a matter of fact. I walked down the cement stairs carefully. I was worried that they would be damp and slick.

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