Page 60 of Centurion

“And your design career?” her father asked.

“Dad, I’m good, but I’m not great. I can do that in my spare time if the urge strikes me. I mean, it's not like Con will need me every second of every day.”

Con stood up. “Yes, I will.” He looked at her father. “However, the workload probably won’t support a full-time position.”

Her dadalmostsmiled, but he didn’t waste any time. “Put us back on the conference.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Saint is back online.”

“You have two assets available in London. Pull in the other Shadows and brief them. Give them as much information on the layouts of the homes as you can. If they have interior security systems, I want the Shadows to be able to see what’s waiting for them.”

“I copy,” Fury said.

“Rog-O,” Jewell said at the same time as Fury.

“Alpha, we need six teams, perhaps more; I’ll leave that to your discretion. They’ll take down that two-block area in Switzerland.”

“Are we clear from any government interference?” Alpha asked.

“We have the green light from Switzerland,” her father replied.

“I’m bringing up the Plume Pharma location on a map. You might want to pull up the locations of the sites.” Con spoke low so as not to disturb the conversation the others were having.

Ethan spoke up. “I’m here. I have them.”

“I’ve got the correct addresses of Molchalin’s safe houses. I’ll put them on the screen,” Brando said.

“That’s a lot of territory to cover,” Jacob said as the maps converged on the screen.

“We have the resources,” Fury replied.

“No, I mean the Plume area. We’ll need to find the access point to the underground facility, and the warehouse would be the logical place to look.”

“Don’t think logically.” Fury shot down his brother’s idea. “Where would you hide a secret entrance to a nuclear missile construction site?”

“As far away from the warehouse that was raided as it could get,” Jewell said. “Wait … We have pictures from when Phantom went to the warehouse.” Just a few seconds later, the pictures were up on another screen. There were some great shots and some that looked as if the Shadow had been right out in the middle of the street. Gabby shook her head. The man had big brass balls; that was for sure.

“Jewell, can you get me a satellite view of this area?” Jacob asked.

“You got it.”

“I can give you live feeds on the bordering areas, so you can see who’s going in and out and at what times. There are no cameras or any digital footprint I can find in that two-block area.”

Con frowned. “None? Do they have utilities going in?”

“I would imagine so,” Ethan said.

“Then they have a way to get digital in and out. Fiber is my guess, and it's buried.”

“But we can’t see it,” Brando reminded them. “If we can’t see it, we can’t tell the teams where to look.”

“Because it’s shielded and probably underground. But if we find out where the fiber ends, we have a damn good idea of the location.” Con’s fingers furiously danced across the keyboard.“We need to go back maybe ten or fifteen years and look for utility projects in the area.”

“I can do that,” Ethan said. “I’ll let you know what I find.”

“Sir, for the timed incursion, can I suggest we take down the power at the residences and this two-block area?” Con said as he typed.

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