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the bushy hair,
bushy eyebrows and round face of Colonel Howard Gordon. He was
talking to someone just off screen, then turned.
    “ Major Drayson,” Colonel
Gordon said.
    Alex saluted and he returned it.
    “ It’s just strange to
salute the computer screen. At ease, Alex. I wanted to check in to
see how you’re holding up. The CIA informs me that they believe
they have some good information on Eleazar.”
    “ They’ve said that
before,” Alex said. “I’ll review the information when I’m done with
the call. We’re hoping to get another location on him. Our guess is
that he’s in Jordon.”
    “ Major… Alex… I am going
to request again that you don’t take this telephone call. In
sixteen months, we have learned very little except that you can
tolerate psychological torture. You’ve proven your point. Let it be
over.”
    “ Sir, respectfully, we
cannot stop him from coming after me. He is coming, sir. This is
our opportunity to….”
    “ God damn it,
Alex.”
    “ Sir.” She watched the
Colonel, known for fighting for his people, fight with himself.
There was a voice behind him and he turned.
    “ I was just informed that
my job is to support you in the endeavor.”
    Alex raised her eyebrows and laughed.
    “ We’ll go over the
transcripts tomorrow in my office, Major.”
    “ Yes, sir,” Alex
said.
    The screen flashed dark when Colonel Gordon
ended the conversation. Alex turned in her chair to get up when her
Sergeant’s face appeared on the screen.
    “ Sir there’s a priority
message coming in for you from someone named Anderson. It’s
nonmilitary but he has the code.”
    “ Tom Anderson?”
    “ Yes sir.”
    “ Can you patch him
through?”
    “ Yes sir.”
    A moment before he realized the connection
was made, Alex saw the flashing dark eyes and rumpled hair of Max’s
friend Tom.
    “ You’ll just have to
fucking shoot me then,” he said to someone off screen.
    “ What’s up
Tom?”
    “ Holy fuck Alex. You have
to believe me that I didn’t have anything to do with this. Oh God
Alex never, never would I… Homeland fucking Security has shut down
our servers. There’s fifty…sixty guys in the building with machine
guns. Oh Alex, I’m so sorry. Oh fuck…”
    “ TOM! What are
you…?”
    There was movement on the stairs to the
basement. Rolling her chair to the doorway, Alex saw Homeland
Security Agent Arthur “Raz” Rasmussen and his boss, her mentor and
the best intelligence agent in the world, Ben, take the stairs two
at a time.
    Tom continued his espresso fueled panic.
    “ Tell me what to do Alex.
The geeks are freaking here. Your brother is going to fucking kill
me.”
    “ Who is that?” Raz
said.
    “ Tom Anderson,” Alex said.
“He runs…”
    “ MySpace.”
    “ Tom, Homeland just got
here. I don’t have any idea…”
    “ Alex,” Tom leaned into
the webcam. “I have been Max’s friend for almost fifteen years. I
would never endanger you, never. That’s what I wanted you to hear.
From me to you.”
    “ Of course, Tom. Clearly
something is going on. I need to get up to speed, but we’re
golden.”
    “ We’re golden. I will do
whatever I have to do to make this right.”
    The muzzle of a machine gun moved into the
screen and Tom swore at the person.
    “ I’m getting off the God
damn…” Tom said and his screen went blank.
    Alex’s screen split as the image of her
Sergeant and Colonel Gordon both joined her video feed.
    “ God damn it, Alex.
Homeland…” Colonel Gordon said into the screen.
    “ They just arrived,
sir.”
    “ Then you know,” he
said.
    “ Know what?” Alex
asked.
    “ Eleazar has a photo of
you, Max, John and Erin,” Ben said in slow even tones.
    “ WHAT?” Alex twirled
around in her chair. She raised her finger to Ben. “Wait.” She
turned back to her screen.
    “ Sir, Ben is here to brief
me. I…”
    “ We’ve got your back
Alex,” Colonel Gordon said clicking off.
    “ Major?” her Sergeant
asked.
    “ Sergeant, I need