What Lies Behind by Ellison J. T

Author:Ellison, J. T. [Ellison, J. T.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Mystery, Thrillers & Suspense, Medical, Thriller & Suspense, United States, Thrillers, Police Procedurals, Crime, Literature & Fiction
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2015-06-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

Capitol Hill

SAM PASSED OFF Eloise Poe to the uniforms at the front door, and went back inside to find Fletcher. Before she got very far, her cell phone rang.

Baldwin. Finally. She ducked off into the white-and-black kitchen, answered with, “I hope you have a whole lot of answers for me, because my list of questions is growing. I’ve got more dead.”

“More dead? Where?”

She filled him in. He cursed once, very gently.

“Baldwin, I can’t keep operating in the dark. We need to know what we’re dealing with, because this case is getting weirder by the second.”

“I know. I’m all yours.”

“Then would you like to tell me why Souleyret was killed, and why someone seems to be knocking off people who have connections to her, too?”

“I’ve had some back-channel conversations since we talked last. You already know Souleyret was tasked with working on incidences of pharmaceutical espionage.”

“That’s what the file says. Girabaldi seems to feel otherwise. She thinks Amanda was working on a bioterror threat.”

“Right. Well, Amanda had a specialized skill set. For lack of a better term, she was a honeypot. She’d get friendly with the people we needed to look at, get into their systems, load up the software that allowed us to take a look at these company’s practices.”

“I can imagine that would piss some people off. It sounds like she found the source of this threat, and someone realized they’d been taken. And now they’re killing everyone around her.”

“They’re looking for something.”

“I know what they’re looking for.” She told him about the SD card Souleyret had smuggled in and the vaccines they’d found. “We have the vaccination schedules for the whole region. Girabaldi thought the illness outbreak was an isolated incident. The files Amanda has here prove otherwise. They’ve been testing for a while now. It’s scary stuff.”

“Is that all you saw on the SD card?”

“All that we’d found as of an hour ago. We have an eager beaver from Quantico at Fletcher’s place, looking for Robin Souleyret.”

“Daniels, yes, Charlaine told me. He’s very good.”

“Yes, he is. The SD card was built on a sophisticated cipher, layers of encryptions. He cracked the initial code, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more.”

Baldwin was quiet.

“Come on, spill. We have no more time for secrets. We’ve got to find the sister, see if she knows anything and protect her.”

“You won’t have to protect her,” he said.

“So you know where she is?”

“Where? No. Who? Yes. She’s a CIA asset. Or was.”

“Was CIA? Is she dead?”

“In a way. Listen, Robin works for a guy I know. She’s unstable at best.”

“Unstable, how?” Sam asked slowly.

“Robin got blown up a couple of years ago. Literally. She never recovered all the way. She was tough as nails, but the PTSD got her. CIA kept her on the payroll, but she hasn’t been given real assignments in months. She works for my friend from time to time, on specialty jobs, but she’s lost her edge.”

“What did she do for them? What was her position? An analyst, a handler?”

“Um, her work was very specific.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.