Z-Volution by Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster

Author:Rick Chesler & David Sakmyster [Chesler, Rick & Sakmyster, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dinos, Dinosaurs, Jurassic, Sci fi, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781925225907
Amazon: 1925225909
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

17.

CIA Special Agent Debbie Harris, after leaving the last in a series of briefings—quite possibly the last ever from this president—headed to the roof. She had to make a call on the secure satellite phone, but it was too risky inside the building, and likely jammed.

She had to reach DeKirk and warn him. The CDC…they had something. She’d only overheard bits of the details, but a mission had just been green-lighted. Top priority extraction of someone or some information down there. Too urgent to share over conventional channels. She knew DeKirk was concerned about the CDC, but he didn’t assign it high enough value to merit a first-wave strike.

This was why he had chosen her, why she’d been on his payroll for years, doing nothing except listening. Sure, she occasionally fed his associates information on the CIA manhunt or the investigation into his finances, but that was nothing new for him—he had it covered and was well protected. Her updates had probably just served as entertainment and to confirm how far ahead of his hunters he remained.

This, however, he hadn’t foreseen. It was still a long shot, but Agent Harris wasn’t taking any chances. If the president himself thought this was the highest priority, she had to convey it to DeKirk, and fast.

Rounding a corner, phone in hand, she gingerly stepped past a pair of bodies—guards with nasty bites in their necks and bullet holes in their skulls. She choked back an involuntary rise of bile, then looked up at the nearest full-wall length window as an F/A-18 fighter jet tore across her view. She heard high-caliber machine gun fire from somewhere below, and explosions from outside while she approached the elevator bank, pressed the UP button and continued to stare at the scene outside.

Trails of smoke rising from city streets. Buildings on fire. Giant bird-like shapes in the air, swooping down on motorists and into the midst of crowds. Chased by numerous planes, aerial battles occurred in a surreal, almost theatrical display as more fireballs rocked the city.

She felt detached, beyond it all. Didn’t know whether to smile or choke back revulsion. She had been a part of all this, at first an unwilling part as DeKirk had kidnapped her daughter. That had only been a first step, a bluff, in essence. He’d let her go long before Harris knew about it because by then, he had her. She had divulged national security secrets, a treasonous sin punishable by death. There was nowhere for her to run, and she was his. She had to continue to serve in any way he wanted.

Still, there were rewards. He knew how to offer incentives as well as threats.

A new world order was coming, a grand feast, and those who had proven themselves would earn a place at the table.

Harris gripped the phone tighter and turned away from the horror outside, praying that the end would come swiftly for all those out there who woke up this morning thinking it would just be another day.

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