Zeus and Io - Books 1 and 2
Copyright 2012,2013 by Harry Carton
Chapter 27
5225, near Manassas, Virginia
October 26, 2012
Melody A. was getting more and more desperate. Her source was getting more and more uncooperative; or rather, he was more and more delusional. The psychotropic drugs were having their predictable long-term effects. Yes, they could and did prompt him to have wild dreams about the future. If she could wade through the bullshit she might find useful tidbits about things that were going to happen.
The drugs, however, were poisoning his liver. He would die within a few months. It didn't take a medical genius to know that.
The need to find a replacement overshadowed everything else for the 5225 organization and for Melody A. Peter Melthorne, her 'source, ' was semi-conscious these days, all day, 24/7. He mumbled things and so Melody had moved the microphones closer and turned up the volume.
She had recorded every word of his ramblings. There had been meaningless chatter for months now: cowboys and Indians, San Diego, a girl, Denver, a power station ... Nothing remotely cogent, nothing remotely actionable.
Since the fiasco in San Diego, which had cost Elroy L. his life, she had had to move Alpha team to Washington, and move Alpha One in-house. She needed someone who could reign in her flights of desperation in trying to 'recover' the Gold Target.
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