Hawk needed the better part of the afternoon to identify a strategic public park that appeared to have a significant homeless population. He spent the night staying warm by a fire that a couple of guys had built in an old oil drum. Using a coat he’d purchased as a blanket, he finally fell asleep.
When he awoke in the morning to a chorus of birds singing in the tree overhead, he decided to take a walk. He walked by a newsstand and froze, stopping to read the headlines.
Federal Reserve Board Mulls Dissolving Amid Growing Concerns
But it was a smaller headline below the fold that Hawk found more intriguing.
NY Times Reporter, Pulitzer Winner Commits Suicide
Suicide? Unbelievable.
He found a pay phone and placed a call to Blunt’s secure line.
“You know I haven’t had my coffee yet,” Blunt said as he answered.
“They killed him,” Hawk said, ignoring Blunt’s grouchy greeting.
“I already read this morning in the paper. How’d they do it?”
“Bastards ambushed him. They sent two agents. I stopped one in Hendridge’s hallway outside his apartment, but Hendridge came out with a gun when he heard the commotion going on. When he did, another agent who used the stairwell snuck up behind him and forced Hendridge back inside before shooting him.”
“CIA?” Blunt asked.
“That’s what they looked like to me.”
“Damn. That kid didn’t deserve that.”
“They’re going to do the same to us if we aren’t careful. And that’s why I’m calling to say goodbye. I’m going off the grid and I’ll contact you once I figure out a way to regain our freedom.”
“There’s only one way that’s going to happen.”
“I know. Tell Alex I love her and I’ll reach out once I have a better idea of how I need to do what needs to be done.”
“Good luck, Hawk. And be careful.”
“Always.”
Hawk hung up and headed to the bus station. He needed to get out of the city. He needed to get out of the country.
Then he needed to plot his revenge.
THE END
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R.J. PATTERSON is an award-winning writer living in southeastern Idaho. He first began his illustrious writing career as a sports journalist, recording his exploits on the soccer fields in England as a young boy. Then when his father told him that people would pay him to watch sports if he would write about what he saw, he went all in. He landed his first writing job at age 15 as a sports writer for a daily newspaper in Orangeburg, S.C. He later attended earned a degree in newspaper journalism from the University of Georgia, where he took a job covering high school sports for the award-winning Athens Banner-Herald and Daily News.
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Table of Contents
What Others are Saying about R.J. Patterson
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Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Acknowledgments
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