The Infiltrator by Brad Taylor

Author:Brad Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

14

I tapped Aaron on the shoulder and leaned in to his ear. “This isn’t going to end well. You need to pull her back.”

He said, “She believes there is a threat. And if she believes it, then there is one.”

I said, “It doesn’t matter one bit what she believes here. That pass from the Ramsad held no sway, and she’s going to get arrested.”

We’d found out the Waqf official had been hustled to an isolation cell in a border police station on the western side of the plaza. Shoshana had rushed over, not waiting on any sort of discussion, and had been immediately stonewalled. The papers Aaron held and our actions on the Temple Mount were duly noted, but the Waqf guy was ordered to be in isolation, and the minions who were running the show at the station were not going to break their orders. Which was aggravating the hell out of Shoshana.

She was talking to the third flunky since we’d arrived, and getting the same answers. She demanded yet again to at least see the Waqf official, and was rebuffed. They hadn’t gotten rude yet, but Shoshana had an incredible skill at turning goodwill into aggravation.

I heard her say, “Let me talk to your boss.”

The current official she was arguing with said, “I am the boss, and I’m telling you no. If you want to talk to him, you can wait until Ezra returns.”

That triggered Shoshana. I saw the menace at the same time Aaron did, and we both started forward. Jennifer held up a hand and said, “I got it.”

She ran to the desk and pulled Shoshana back, whispering in her ear. Shoshana calmed down. I turned to Aaron and said, “I know you trust her instincts, but this is a waste of time. Let the police sort it out. What does she think she’s doing?”

A door opened, and we saw the Waqf official being led in by four men, his head down and his hands cuffed behind his back. He turned and looked at us, and Shoshana stiffened. He disappeared behind a steel door, and she ran back to us.

She said, “We need to go. We’re not going to get anything else done here.”

I saw that Aaron was willing to continue the insanity. I said, “Shoshana, what are you trying to do? We stopped a terrorist attack today. What else is there?”

She ignored me. Aaron said, “What did you see?”

“That man is innocent. They’re going to kill him because they believe he’s bad. They’re wrong, and Lieutenant Ezra knows it.”

I said, “Shoshana, come on. You can’t possibly believe that. We just stopped a Palestinian terrorist attack. You yourself said that guy was running to the sound of the guns instead of running away. Let the security forces handle this.”

She turned to me and said, “I watched a man die once. One I knew was innocent. I will never do that again.”

I was taken aback at her expression. It was raw, like road rash from a motorcycle wreck.

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