The Soul of the Matter by Bruce Buff

Author:Bruce Buff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

Chapter 46

The black government sedan dropped them off in front of MIT’s Koch Building. A government agent awaiting their arrival opened the car door for Nancy.

Dan exited on his own, careful not to show much interest in the area. Still, his jaw clenched as they were escorted to the building’s back entrance, next to where Stephen had been taken. He wondered why they weren’t using the front entrance. Was it a test to see how he reacted?

Dan and Nancy followed the agent up a flight of stairs and toward Stephen’s office. Yellow police tape hung limply from both sides of the door.

A man sat at Stephen’s desk, his head bent, sheets of paper on the desktop. Without looking up, the agent said, “Please have a seat, Mrs. Bishop.” He then raised his head and looked hard at Dan. Agent Evans said, “Lawson, you remain standing.”

Dan stiffened, and with a half-smile said, “What happened to the retirement age?”

“The younger folks couldn’t do the job,” Evans said.

Dan shot back, “The older folks couldn’t teach what the prior generation taught them.”

“I hear you’ve had a rough patch the last few months.”

“Good news really does travel fast,” Dan fired back.

“What was the problem?” Evans stated more than questioned, as though he knew.

“Just needed to find something to do. Got plenty now.”

Nancy’s head swiveled back and forth as the two spoke.

Agent Evans looked at Nancy and said, “Lawson was one of my first pupils. A penchant for misplaced idealism and disregard for risk landed him a desk job.”

“I thought it was a lack of intelligence in the intelligence section that led to my transfer.”

Sternly, Agent Evans said, “I hope you’re using your intelligence now.” Turning his attention back to Nancy, Evans continued, “Mrs. Bishop, we have more information on Dr. Bishop’s movements. I’d like to see if either of you can shed light on them.”

Nancy nodded slowly and said, “Anything to find out what happened to Stephen.”

“Thank you. I’ll keep to the main points. The Friday of Memorial Day weekend, Viktor Weisman visited your husband in this office. Over the next several days, Dr. Bishop and Dr. Weisman communicated with each other multiple times. Tuesday night, Dr. Weisman and seven others were working at his research center. The explosion that took place was visible from Dr. Bishop’s HBC office. Dr. Bishop headed over to the site. Security cameras show him crossing the bridge, dropping something and picking it up, then arriving on the scene of the raging fire, in the cordoned-off area, and then heading over here.”

Nancy interrupted. “I’m confused about the continued attempts to link Stephen’s death to the explosion and Viktor Weisman. They were just friends. Of course he would go to the site to see what happened and check if Viktor was safe.”

Looking to deflect the line of questioning, Dan broke in and said, “In the intelligence community, nothing that has the remotest appearance of a connection to something else is ever considered a coincidence, regardless of evidence. Even when a theory is dismissed, someone is always ready to revive it.

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