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Callahan laughed, and Cody knew he’d won this round “Okay,” said the voice on the other end “How soon can you get here?”
“I’hts to either Sheridan or Buffalo It ht be easier, and maybe even faster, if we drove, especially since we’ll need reliable transportation while we’re there We can drive up in six hours, but I don’t kno soon we can leave”
“Let me know We’ll need to set up a place to meet” Where we can’t be seen, he didn’t have to add
“What about my cabin near Granite Pass?” Cody offered as the idea occurred to him “I haven’t been up there in six weeks, but I assu before now if it wasn’t”
“That’s not a bad idea,” Callahan said slowly
“The three of us could stay there, too Then no one would knoere even near Black Rock,” Cody said “If things are as dicey as you intimated earlier”
Callahan chuckled, but there was little humor in it “You know, Walker, for an amateur you’re not half-bad”
“Thanks,” Cody said drily “I’ll take that as a cohed softly to hiain
He walked back to the office listing in his s they needed to do before they left for Black Rock D’Arcy and Callahan are right, he thought We need to ht he didn’t take every opportunity to check to see if he was being followed And when he turned a corner two blocks before the outer gate of the agency’s co wide in the direction fro else That hen he spotted him
The man looked no different from anyone else on the street He blended in—al that made him stand out from the crowd Cody couldn’t have said what it was about hi tailed
He didn’t let on he’d ate While he walked, he reviewed the scene at the pay phone in his mind, and his first spurt of adrenaline subsided This man had not been there; Cody was sure of it Or if he had, he hadn’t been close enough to hear Cody’s side of the conversation
But Cody kneouldn’t risk using a public pay phone again Throay cell phones and encryption software, he added to his er by the minute
Cody ate, and he ieneral characteristics in hishit him
He’d seen the guy before
Two days ago when Cody was filling his truck with gas on the way to work, thisto a little blue subcompact He hadn’t picked up on it at the ti followed, thehas sotoo damn lazy Is it related to Callahan somehow? Or a different case?
Either way, he didn’t like it It n for a special agent
Cody flashed his ID badge to the guard at the gate, then badged into the building using the electronic stripe on his ID card, without which no one entered the agency’s building No one Early on in his career with the agency, Cody had forgotten his badge oneand had been forced to return home to retrieve it
But he still had to run the huuards stood watch at the front desk, armed and alert Even if someone stole an electronic ID card, they still had to uards perused Cody’s badge carefully before allowing hi there were always two sets of guards on duty to make the line move faster, but it was never quick But that s that went on in the agency they didn’t want the general public to know