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Alien Diplomacy

Alien Diplomacy

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Autoren: Gini Koch
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like five minutes ago. We’ll need a car there, too, but I don’t think we have time to drive there.”
    Jeff pulled his phone and made a call—to Reader, as far as I could tell. I was busy examining the photo. It showed Caroline and a large group of people, all grouped around a tent. I wasn’t certain, but the scenery looked like what I remembered seeing of the Chaco, when I’d watched a twelve-superbeing formation try to take on a lot of A-Cs.
    Memory shared that the C.I.A. had been on the scene and had tried to keep us from destroying the superbeings. I handed the photo to Chuckie. “I think some of your brothers and sisters are making a play.” Like me, Chuckie was an only child.
    He, of course, knew what I meant. “This was taken in Paraguay.” He shook Nurse Carter. “Why are you people spying on American politicians?”
    “We’re trying to determine who’s in charge of the project,” she said angrily.
    “What project?” Chuckie’s voice was hard.
    She snorted. “The one that hires our poorest people and then, when they never come home, claims they’ve never heard of them. The one that turns people into inhuman monsters.”
    Jeff hung up as we reached the elevator banks. “Alpha Team’s going to meet us at National. We have a floater gate marking on our limo.”
    “Jeff, remember, right before Operation Drug Addict, there was a big superbeing cluster in the Chaco?”
    Jeff winced. “I hate your nicknames for operations. Especially that one.”
    “Whatever. Do you remember?”
    “Yes. The C.I.A. was on the scene; they wanted our people to let those superbeings survive. Argentina sent in stinger missiles at my request and blew them up.” He sighed. “The cluster was just like the one we had in Paris a few months ago. Just like the one in the Chaco, again, this morning. Only we didn’t blow the cluster up either of those times, they self-destructed. So, yes, I know where you’re going with this, baby.”
    “Right. I don’t think that project’s been stopped.” I looked up at Chuckie. “My take on Senator McMillan is that he’s a good man. What’s your take?”
    “He is a good man. He’s also unafraid to speak out against things he thinks are wrong.” Chuckie’s eyes narrowed. “The man behind Caroline—is he familiar to you?”
    I took the photo back and gave the man Chuckie pointed out a closer inspection. He was wearing sunglasses and had what looked like a couple of weeks’ worth of facial hair. But he was very familiar. So was the man standing behind him. “That’s my ‘Uncle’ Peter, and the guy with him is the other guy we fished out of the Potomac.”
    Jeff cursed quietly. “I knew we should have let them drown.”
    “No, I think Peter had a change of heart somehow. That’s why he listed me as his family.” And why he’d slipped me the memory card, though I didn’t think I wanted to mention that around Nurse Carter. “Per our ‘nurse’ here, the other guy never got checked into the hospital, so whoever’s running this had him picked up.”
    “How would that be?” Chuckie asked. “There were supposed to be Centaurion teams assigned to the prisoners.”
    “There weren’t any operatives around other than Airborne when we reached the Medical Center. Peter and his crony got handed off to local law enforcement, of which there was a tonnage. Assume some or all of them were undercover bad guys.”
    “Makes sense.” Jeff sent a text. “But why not grab both of them?”
    “I’m concerned about what happened to the teams that were supposed to be covering this,” Chuckie said.
    Jeff’s phone beeped and he sighed. “Per Serene, when our teams arrived at the hospital, they were told the prisoners were in police custody, so they headed back.”
    “Figures. I’m really more concerned with how Peter died. He wasn’t in bad shape, not bad enough to die.”
    “I think he was murdered,” Nurse Carter said. “My cover requires me to actually perform my nursing duties. I couldn’t stay with him the entire time, and I had to go home when my shift was over because no one needed me to cover for them, and hanging around would have raised suspicions.”
    “Maybe they realized he was switching sides, or at least not willing to off me anymore.”
    “They might have realized we found the bugs,” Oliver suggested. “Or he was killed because he failed to kill you and ended up on the local news.”
    “That doesn’t explain where the other guy went to, or

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