The Remnant: On The Brink of Armageddon by Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins Read Free Book Online Page A

oughtn’t need it.
    Now I’m of a mind not to even show up.
    what? Myself, I mean.
    Us, then? One of you.
    I’ll go, Hannah said.
    Now’ wait a minute, Chloe said.
    I  rankly, I’m leaning toward Chloe myself, Hannah.
    I don’t expect any suspicion, but if worse came to worst and they checked your iris or your handprint, you know you’re on file in the palace.
    As a dead woman.
    well, yeah, but then how would you explain an Indian lady havin’ the exact ID marks of a dead Native American?  As long as it’s not that you don’t think I can pull it off.
    You kiddin’ ? Half the time I look at you and forget who you are.
    But Chang has entered Chloe’s readings under her new name, so even if they got feisty and made a member of my executive staff prove her identity, she’d sail through.
    what do you want me to do, Mac? Chloe said.. I want you to be bored.
    Bored?  And irritated.
    You got grunt duty.
    While the fat-cat boss you came with and his other personnel are takin’ a nap at a nice place where is none of anybody’s business-you got assigned to go get the info he needs.
    Any red tape, any holdup at all, and you’re ticked off.
    Can you work that up? what do you think? Your approach is that this is bottom-end stuff just give me the info and let me be on my way.
    Make sure the hostage takers know we’re comet so they don’t get spooked, but they’d better have their man ready.
    The boss is none too pleased that they haven’t gleaned anything from him yet, so make way for somebody who knows what he’s doing.
    Gotcha.
    That flyboy friend of Abdullah’s believes if everything goes well, we can take Sebastian in cuffs, of course right back to his own plane and fly out of here tonight.
    Does local have any idea you’re planning to take the prisoner?
     
     No, and by the time they find out, we oughta be out of here.
    Not going to be easy, Hannah said.
    Even if they buy everything up to where we visit him.
    It never is, Indira, Mac said, smiling.
    The key, though, is not trying to convince them of anything.
    You sting somebody by getting them to come your way.
    Follow? Not sure.
    For instance, if I hinted to you that Rayford or Tsion wanted you to do something you didn’t want to do, like head straight back to Chicago right now, your first reaction would be negative.
    You wouldn’t want to do it, you’d refuse, and I’d say, okay then, I can’t tell you the rest of it.
    You’d say what’s that, and I’d say, no, you made your decision so you don’t need to know.
    Now I don’t know for sure about you, but if I was in your shoes, I’d be all over me trying to find out what the whole story was and whether I made the right decision.
    You bet I would, and I’d wear you down too.
    You know I would.
    You probably would.
    But see, you’d be comin’ my way then.
    It wouldn’t be me trying to convince you of something.
    It would be you trying to drag it out of me.
    I tell you whatever I need to, to get you to do what I wanted in the first place, and you don’t realize until later, when you realize I manipulated you, that you were stung and it seemed like your idea.
    Other words, Hannah said, you’re going to somehow make these people beg you to take Sebastian off their hands.
    You got it.
    And they’re going to think you’re doing them a favor.
    Exactly.
    This I’ve got to see.
    You will.
    And where am I while Chloe’s doing her thing at headquarters?  waiting in the Jeep, eyes and ears open.
    The impression is, yeah, there are two of you, but it takes only one to pick up directions for the boss.
    And where will you be? Chloe said.
    On the phone to Chang and then to the kid at the airport.
    I want that Rooster Tail gassed up and ready to go.
    You going to tell him we’ll have a prisoner with us? I’ll play that by ear.
    If we don’t find a weapon in George’s car, I’ve got one for him and one for me anyway.
    You’ve got your side arms.
    Think we’ll need them? At least for