'Details?'
'He was in a limo, that's all I know. I don't know what kind. I wouldn't trust anyone to give me the right information anyway,' Rodgers said.
'I'm requisitioning an Apache on the e-command link as we speak,' Breen said. 'Do you think there will be a ransom request or is this a GAT?'
GAT was grab and terminate. It was a military adaptation of the Mafia acronym SAW, snatch and whack.
'I don't know, which is why we need to try to find the limo,' Rodgers said. 'Can they pick me up somewhere around here?'
'Roof of the convention center, ten minutes,' Breen said. 'What kind of manpower do you need?'
'Full suit?'
That was thirteen men. Breen said he would provide that.
'Perfect,' Rodgers said. 'I'll be there.'
'We'll plan to cover the routes east,' Breen said. 'The police will have plenty of resources deployed north along 405 headed up to Los Angeles and south to Mexico,' Breen said. 'I doubt kidnappers would want to get into the traffic or border check along that corridor anyway.'
'Agreed,' Rodgers said as his phone beeped. That meant there was an incoming call. 'General, I'll see your boys in ten.' Rodgers jogged from the lobby as he switched to the other call. 'Yes?'
'Mike, it's Darrell.'
'Have you got something?' Rodgers asked.
'Yes. It sounds like you're running.'
'I am,' Rodgers told him. 'I'm organizing recon. It seems Admiral Link was just kidnapped.'
'He was? That's surprising.'
'Why?'
'Because we just busted Lucy O'Connor,' McCaskey told him. 'She confessed to giving those men the injections. Within a half hour of the first, she received a call from Admiral Link's office phone.'
'Who did Lucy talk to?'
'She doesn't know,' McCaskey said. 'Only that it was a woman.'
'I'm not sure if that means anything,' Rodgers said. 'Anyone could have used his phone.'
'Not without his authorization code,' McCaskey said. 'We checked. No one in the office has that except Link.'
'Were there calls after the second incident?' Rodgers asked.
'No, they were being very careful then,' McCaskey said. 'The criminal nature of the first action had already been uncovered. The perps would have been much more cautious the next day.'
'Would they really have been that cavalier about murder?' Rodgers asked.
'Yeah,' McCaskey said. 'They had plausible deniability. Lucy could have gone up there and done it for a story.'
'Okay. But why do it at all? Does Lucy have any idea?'
'Lucy appears to be suffering from a mild form of narcosis, probably due to something in the barbiturate family,' McCaskey said. 'I used to see the same speech and slowed reactions in the street.'
'Could someone on Orr's staff have been providing her with drugs?'
Rodgers asked. 'That might have provided them with leverage.'
