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for us, Eniac
doesn’t keep up with current research at the VA. He didn’t call
Ronan Kelly’s children, so we can assume he didn’t call the
others.”
    “ Or he hasn’t called so
far,” Ben said. “But will.”
    “ We should take our wins
where we can and assume this is good news,” Patrick said. “Is there
anything else anyone wants or needs to know?”
    No one said
anything.
    “ You are released to
continue to track the individuals you haven’t yet contacted,”
Patrick said.
    “ Sir?” Margaret raised her
hand.
    “ Yes Sergeant,” Patrick
said.
    “ I
wonder . . . if they told this MK-Ultra or whatever
story to cover over what they were actually doing, what if they’re
doing that right now?” Margaret asked. “We’re going to spend the
next week or more tracking down everyone involved. Even with the
help of your team and our support staff, we’re not going to see our
families this week.”
    “ It’s a lot of work,”
Patrick said.
    “ You’re exactly right,
Sergeant,” Ben said. “What’s going on while we’re distracted with
this?”
    “ I think she’s asking
about what are ‘we’ . . .” Alex gestured to her
team. “Not watching?”
    Ben and Patrick turned to
look at Alex. The silence dragged.
    “ Don’t make the child say
it, you old fools,” Mammy said. “ They are the active intelligence
team. No one knows our little group exists, and if they even think
of us, they know we’re retired. Didn’t you tell everyone you were
going to sleep for a year when you retired, Patrick?”
    Ben and Patrick gave each
other a sly smile.
    “ She’s right,” Ben
said.
    “ Of course, I’m right,”
Mammy said.
    “ My team will take over
tracking the participants,” Patrick said.
    “ Could we do it as a joint
effort?” Matthew asked. “I know Margaret and Leena would like to
continue following up with the girls. Margaret has a number of
connections in the Native American community. Joseph, Colin, and MJ
have special knowledge that can help. The rest of our team can work
through what we’re supposed to miss.”
    “ Good thinking,” Patrick
said. “What are we calling this project?”
    “ Solarus, sir,” Joseph
said.
    “ Shining light on a lot of
dark places,” Patrick said. “Good thinking.”
    “ Hey Dad? Alex? You got a
second?” Colin said as he came into the room.
    Alex and Patrick stepped
away from everyone. Ben shifted over so he could hear what was
going on. Colin came to the front of the room.
    “ I just got the weirdest
call,” Colin said. “It was Mom. I took the call because she’s
watching Paddie today. And . . .”
    Colin looked at Alex and
blushed.
    “ What?” Alex
asked.
    “ Mom said that she just
got an email from Steve. I guess he’s off getting married in Aruba.
He wanted to invite everyone, but ‘Alex never got over him dumping
her.’ That’s a direct quote. Mom says Steve was Alex’s first lover
and . . .”
    Alex felt the blood drain
from her face. Patrick and Ben noticeably paled.
    “ What’s happened?” Joseph
asked.
    “ Steve Pershing’s been
taken,” Ben said.
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CHAPTER THREE
     
    Friday
afternoon
    November 5 – 3:47 p.m.
MDT
    Buckley Air Force Base,
Aurora, Colorado
     
    “ One more,” Alex said to
Leena.
    They were in the
martial-arts gym working out. About a year ago, Steve Pershing had
encouraged Alex to share her knowledge of mixed martial arts and
get her team members to share theirs. Every day at three-thirty,
the team met to work out. Over the course of the year, they had
each had at least a month of training in each other’s
specialty.
    Raz was boxing with Royce
on the other side of the gym. In the middle, Colin was teaching
Zack and his co-pilot, Sergeant Clifford Mauer, Krav Maga. Troy and
Trece were locked in a sweaty battle of Vacón, a Peruvian
hybrid-martial art. White Boy was schooling MJ in Eskrima, a
martial art from the Philippines, which White Boy had learned from
his step-father. Near the