Without Options by Trevor Scott

Author:Trevor Scott
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, Technological, Espionage, Fiction
ISBN: 9781627934565
Publisher: Salvo Press
Published: 2013-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

17

Early evening now, and Toni drove her rental Opel along the German Autobahn near Martinislautern. She exited at the Ramstein Air Base exit and then slowly drove along the priority road toward the front gate of the American Air Force Base. She’d gotten a call from the CIA director, Kurt Jenkins, earlier in the day, telling her to pick up a package at the base Office of Special Investigations detachment. She’d been on the sprawling Ramstein many times while working in Europe, but hadn’t been given any indication as to what she was picking up. Most communications in the Agency now were not only highly encrypted, they were easily downloaded to hand-held devices, which Toni carried at all times. However, she also knew that her boss, Kurt Jenkins, was a bit old school and liked to maintain some of the old communications methods. Couriers were still important to him—especially if he felt other methods had been compromised in some way.

She signed Franz Martini onto the base and they proceeded to the OSI detachment building.

“What do you suppose they have for you here?” Franz asked her solemnly.

Toni had a feeling it was a package of information. Something she could have just as well accessed with her computer. “I don’t know,” she said. “Intel I’d guess.”

They’d discussed all afternoon what to do—try to follow Jake and hopefully catch up with him, or move in another direction. Part of her wanted to drop Franz off at the nearest airport and let him fly back to Austria. His health seemed to be deteriorating by the minute. His coughing had forced them to go to a pharmacy in Trier and get him a suppressant, which he was sucking down like an early-morning alcoholic takes down his first drink of the day.

She pulled in front of the OSI building and parked. A sign out front said ‘No Smoking Within 100 Feet of Building.’

“I’m sure that means outside,” Toni assured him. “They won’t let you inside anyway. So why don’t you stay here and have a smoke while I retrieve whatever’s here for me.”

He nodded agreement.

Getting out, she saw him light up as she rounded the front of the car. Although she’d said he could smoke in the car with her, he’d refrained from doing so. Smoking seemed to be the man’s only pleasure in life and she had no desire to take that from him.

After going through security inside, she was escorted to the office of the OSI detachment commander, a man in his early thirties with a full beard and long hair in a ponytail. He stood and shook her hand before slumping back into his leather task chair. The office had no windows and appeared to be in the exact center of the building, with sound-deadening walls much like the conference room at the German Intelligence building near Munich. She remained standing.

Toni glanced about the office for any package of size that might have come from the Agency. “Where’s my package?” she asked the commander.

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