The Sixth Man (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell 5)
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“I will,” he said.
CHAPTER
74
“SIR, IT’S HIM. On the phone!”
Mason Quantrell’s secretary was standing in front of him in his office suite in northern Virginia.
Quantrell looked up from his work. “Who?”
“Peter Bunting.”
Quantrell forgot all about what he was doing. “Bunting? Calling me?”
“Line one.”
“Notify security and tell them to trace the call.”
“Yes, sir.” She hurried out.
Quantrell paused, staring down at the blinking light. Then he snatched it up. “Hello?”
Bunting said pleasantly, “Hello, Mason. I know your tech guys are trying to trace this. You can let them go through the motions if you want. You never could break my pipeline, mainly because your hardware is cheap crap that you sell to the Pentagon for fifty times what it’s worth, but I’ll still keep it brief.”
“Where is Edgar Roy, Bunting?”
“Funny you should ask, Mason. I know that was quite a curve we threw you when your boys got ambushed.”
“Don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.”
“Right, right, just in case I’m sitting at the Hoover Building and they’re recording this call.”
“I doubt you’d get anywhere near Hoover without being arrested. You’re in serious trouble, my friend.”
“You think so? Well, not nearly as serious as you are.”
“You never did lie well, Pete.”
“It was a blunder, you know.”
“What was?”
“The team you used to extract Roy. How in the hell did you forget about the surveillance cameras at Cutter’s?”
Quantrell felt his gut tighten just a notch. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Surveillance cameras, Mason. You get the concept, right? They see things.”
“I… I understood from the news reports that the power was knocked out as part of the escape plan.” He added in a loud voice, “A plan that you hatched.”
“But Cutter’s is a very special federal facility. And Maine is a very green state.”
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“Didn’t you ever notice the solar panels, Mason?”
Quantrell remained silent.