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“What about?” he called back
“I think you know I’un and I’ve been told hoell you wield one And I’m sure you’ve spotted ets hurt, I propose that I come inside and meet with you Just one-on-one Does that work?”
“And if it doesn’t?” Stone shot back
“I could say ould just leave”
“Why don’t I believe that?”
“We’re both on the same side here”
“It doesn’t feel that way right now”
“I give you my word I just want to talk”
“Then why coht with a strike team?”
“It’s just the way I travel Don’t take it personally But I do just want to talk”
Stone thought rapidly He really had no leverage here at all And information could be a tay street
“Just you,” he called back “And I do have a gun If I see even one red dot floating in the air, things will get ugly very fast Understood?”
“Understood I’ in”
“Slowly”
“Right Slowly”
A few moments later Riley Weaver, the head of NIC, appeared in the doorway of Stone’s hue, which was surrounded by the dead and also now at least a half dozen armed men
CHAPTER 32
“CLOSE THE DOOR BEHIND YOU,” instructed Stone “And move away from it to your left”
He rose fro out of the line of fire from the
“Open your jacket”
“I’m not armed”
“Open your jacket”
Weaver did so He was startled when a hand swiftly searched him
“You’re light on your feet,” said Weaver
Stone stepped back froun aimed at him
“Can we turn on a light?” asked Weaver “I’ blind here”
“If you hadn’t shown up with a platoon of firepower I ht treat you withStone had keptthe ht vision too, and he was not proved wrong
“Okay, I can see you now and I know you can see me,” said Weaver “How do you want to do this?”
“You see the chairs by the fireplace?”
“Yes”
“You on the left”
“And where will you be?”
“Somewhere else”
Weaver moved forward and sat in a rickety wooden chair He turned his head slightly to the right “I can’t see you anymore”
“I know What do you want?”
“Our lastended too abruptly”
“Entirely your doing”
“I know I ad with NSC now And the FBI”
“So?”