Second Front by Doug Dandridge

Author:Doug Dandridge [Dandridge, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Catbrother Publishing
Published: 2015-08-02T22:00:00+00:00

JEWEL.

“Our employer wants to know when she can expect you to make another try,” said the distorted voice on the message disc that Angel held in his hand. Of course the voice was distorted. The people who sent it didn’t want anyone recognizing them. He was surprised they had even used a gender specific tag like her. He had also been surprised that they had left the disc at one of the specified drops. And he had been surprised that he had even made the attempt to retrieve it, and not just because it might put him at risk in the manhunt that was going on in the capital city.

“In fact,” continued the voice, “she is really angry that you did not complete the mission while you had the chance. We have seen the footage of the incident, and everyone agrees that you had plenty of time to take the shot. So why didn’t you? Just have to say that we paid you enough in advance to do the job, and we expect the job done, or a refund.”

Like that’s going to happen, thought Angel with a scowl on his face. There was no way he was going to have any more contact with these people. As far as he was concerned, the most rational thing he could do would be to retire, and get his ass off this planet. He had made enough money to last him a lifetime. There were several frontier worlds that he was considering, where he could open an establishment, be a big man, and drop off the sensors. The risk of a frontier world at this time was that they were not given the same kind of protection as one of the more important planets, and with the Cacas at the gates, living on such a world could be courting death. Except his target worlds were in Sector I, that furthest from the Ca’cadasan Empire, and someplace they were unlikely to get to unless they ran over the Core Worlds.

The other risk was that even making himself a big man on a small world might attract too much attention. It might be better to move to another world and just lay low for two decades or so. For a normal man that would be a sound strategy. For one who had sacrificed almost five decades of life in order to become augmented, and then lived over half of his remaining life? Well, it didn’t sound quite so enticing.

Warning, came the silent mental voice of his high level implant. Signal emanating from the message disc.

Shit, thought Angel, a response the implant really couldn’t answer. He took the small disc and touched a stud on the table. An opening appeared in the top and Angel tossed the disc inside, then touched the stud again. The opening iris closed, leaving no trace of the closure. Almost instantaneously the lasers in the disposal compartment converted the disc to vapor, which was whisked away, leaving no trace of the device in the apartment.

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