One Last Game by David Archer

Author:David Archer [Archer, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action, Suspense, Thriller
Published: 2018-03-27T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

I nodded. “Okay, then let me see what I can figure out.” I finished crossing the distance to her, and knelt down right in front of where she was sitting.

This bomb didn’t look like anything I had ever seen in movies, or anything I expected a bomb to look like. There were a lot of what looked like rectangular sticks, about two inches wide and maybe a foot long. There were probably a dozen of them attached to this vest-like thing she was wearing, and a lot of wires attached to all of them.

Right in the front, right on top of those things, was a box made of plastic. It had an LED display on it that was counting down from fifteen minutes. Apparently, I had already wasted thirty seconds.

There was also a cell phone attached to it, the kind with an actual little keyboard that slides out the back. It was open, and its display said, “ENTER PASSWORD.” I stared at it for another thirty seconds, trying to figure out just what the password might be, but I didn’t have a clue. The headset Toni was wearing was wired into it.

I looked at Toni. “Ask him if I can talk to him directly,” I said.

She started to ask, but then she stopped and listened. A second later, she nodded, and I reached up to take the headset off her ear. It was on a cord that was attached to the cell phone, so I had to lean close to get it onto my own ear.

“Danny? It’s Cassie.”

“I’m watching the countdown,” he said. “You got thirteen and a half minutes left. You sure you want to waste it talking to me?”

“Well, I’m kinda hoping you might give me some kind of clue about this password. I’m guessing that if I enter it right, it will turn off the bomb?”

“That’s right. But I don’t think you need my help; everything you need to figure out that password is right there with you.”

I thought about what he said. Everything I needed was right there with me? I thought about what was there with me, but I was pretty sure he wouldn’t have any clue what was in my pockets, so I didn’t think he was talking about anything I brought with me.

So what else was there? Well, we were in the emergency room lobby, but it only held a lot of chairs, some tables with magazines, this kids area, all the usual stuff. Somehow, I didn’t think any of that had anything to do with figuring out this password.

The only other thing was the bomb itself. I looked it over again, trying to see something about it that might trigger an idea, but absolutely nothing on it looked familiar in any way.

I glanced at the countdown display, and it was down to eleven minutes and twenty seconds.

“Hey, how about just a single hint? One little hint, okay?”

“Oh, no way,” he said. “You’re the great Cassie McGraw. You’re a private investigator, it seems to me that figuring out clues ought to be right down your alley.

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