Nowhere to Hide by Sigmund Brouwer

Author:Sigmund Brouwer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736963060
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

CHAPTER 29

A few hours later, Mundie shut the door behind him, moved across the small room, and sat down at a polished table across from King, somewhere in the heights of the downtown building that housed the FBI. It was just the two of them, King in handcuffs.

Until then, King had been sitting alone for twenty minutes. The entire time he was acutely aware of a video camera near the ceiling, the black lens pointing at him.

“I’ve had a chance to talk to Michael Johnson and Blake Watt,” Mundie said. “They’ve given me nearly everything I need to know. So all I want from you are a couple details to fill in the blanks.”

“Sir,” King said, “I need to go to the bathroom.”

“Talk first.”

“Badly.”

“Talk first.”

“Really badly,” King said.

“Let’s hear why Evans and Moore hired you,” Mundie said. “And by the way, I’m okay if you wet your pants.”

“The other kind of bathroom,” King said. “Are you okay with that? I’m not enthusiastic about it for obvious reasons. When my lawyer gets here, he or she won’t like it either. And my parents—”

“I don’t think you understand,” Mundie said, voice cold. “This is a national security situation, so it falls under the Homeland Security Act. You don’t have the rights given under normal criminal charges. That means no lawyer, no parents. Especially because the email that Evans tried to send from the standoff situation never reached his lawyer. You’re on your own here.”

King didn’t believe that. He thought Mundie was running a bluff. Evans had promised a lawyer, and King trusted Evans.

“I can keep you in a cell in this building for months and not even have to lay charges,” Mundie said. “You have no rights because you belong to the government. You’re considered a terrorist, and we make captured terrorists disappear from public view.”

“My stomach hurts,” King said.

“Deal with it. Let’s begin with why Evans reached out to you and your friends.”

“For our trip to Disney World?” King asked. “And how we met Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?”

“Stop talking about Disney World,” Mundie said. “It doesn’t make me happy at all.”

“I’ll say,” King said. “You don’t look like Sleepy, Sneezy, or Bashful either.”

King waited a pause. “But maybe Grumpy.”

Mundie slammed the top of the table with the open palm of his right hand.

King managed not to giggle. Mundie’s reaction was proof that MJ and Watt had not given Mundie everything that Mundie wanted to know.

All three of them had agreed ahead of time that no matter what, each would stick with a story about visiting Disney World and meeting Mickey Mouse, making up any details about the trip that they wanted. They were stalling for time because they believed Moore’s promise that legal help would be on the way, despite Mundie’s threats.

“Listen,” Mundie said. “We are the good guys. Evans and Moore—they are the bad guys. You have chosen the wrong side, and it’s going to ruin the rest of your life. Here’s your chance to change sides. You talk for a few hours, we let you go, and your life continues as normal.

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