The Pulsar Files by Iain Cameron

Author:Iain Cameron [Cameron, Iain]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Matt arrived back at the safe house in Canonbury as the occupants, including Rosie, were sitting down for dinner.

‘Smells good,’ Matt said, walking into the hall, dumping the sports holdall with Chris’s clothes inside on the floor and hanging up his jacket.

‘Hi Matt, how was the journey to Oxford?’ Rosie asked.

‘No problem on the way down as I was moving against the traffic, but on the way back I got caught up in an accident on the M4. Took me over an hour to drive past.’

‘What a shame. Have you eaten?’ Louise asked.

‘Nope, I’ll go out in a minute and find something.’

‘Don’t bother. There’s enough for us all.’

‘You sure? I don’t want to starve you for the rest of the week.’

‘Don’t you worry, it’s not a problem. Grab a seat. The more you eat the less there’ll be for Chris; I think he needs to lose a few pounds.’

‘Hey,’ Chris said. ‘I’m a growing lad, I need plenty of fuel.’

‘Never describe any food I make as ‘fuel,’ Chris Anderson,’ Louise said, her face in a scowl, ‘or you’ll feel the thick end of a spatula.’

‘Ouch. Sounds painful.’

With everyone seated, Matt helped himself to a glass of water from the jug on the table, thirsty after so many hours in a car and drinking too much motorway coffee. He noticed a couple of bottles of wine in the wine rack and even though he didn’t drink while on duty, he was surprised Louise or Chris didn’t avail themselves of a glass or two.

Louise placed a large dish of spaghetti bolognese on the table and another bowl containing salad. ‘You two serve yourselves first,’ she said, ‘you’re our guests.’

Matt didn’t need telling twice because after slaking his thirst with a couple of glasses of water, what he wanted now was something to eat.

‘While you were out,’ Rosie said when all their plates were filled, ‘I looked over the documents Chris downloaded from his hack into Dragon’s computers. It’s dynamite stuff: names, places, amounts and, buried behind a password, photographs and videos of famous faces doing a lot of things they shouldn’t.’

‘It sounds like blackmail is a key part of their game plan,’ Matt said.

‘They maybe have considered it to be some form of insurance at the beginning, but when Pulsar sales met some resistance, it looks like they moved into it big-time.’

‘Yeah,’ Chris said, his first pause from shovelling food non-stop. ‘The US Military liked Pulsar well enough but sales were slow as they couldn’t justify the high cost to their paymasters.’

‘Don’t forget, this information doesn’t just reflect badly on Dragon as a company,’ Matt said, ‘it involves individuals in their organisation. If they’re as tough as we think, they’ll stop at nothing to prevent it becoming public knowledge. Otherwise, they’ll find themselves being dragged up in front of a Congressional Committee and looking ahead to some lengthy jail time with their reputations in ribbons. Plus, working for an American company, they’d also face multi-million-dollar lawsuits for damages.’

‘Whoa,’ Chris said. ‘The stakes are even higher than I thought.

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