Red North!
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CHAPTER 48
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Jansen looked at his watch.? 0230.? It was time to move his men into place.? He got his comm link up and called his men in the field.? No answer.? He tried again, with the same result.? A deep foreboding started to settle in.? While he knew there was risk involved in trying to take over a nuclear power plant, he thought he'd had all his bases covered, especially now that he had Connor's report.?
He went over it one more time in his head.? He had people inside the plant-both his men and a key member of the plant security force.? He had men outside the plant.? And he had access to all the sensitive information he'd needed.? He had the element of surprise on his side.? Nobody knew what he was planning to do.? His forces could easily overwhelm the station security force.? Once he'd taken control of the plant, all the installed security measures would actually work for him and against the FBI agents who would try to come in through the front gate.?
He'd thought of everything.? He'd been trained to.? He didn't like to think of the consequences of failure.? His ego and arrogance wouldn't allow for it.? But now something had gone wrong.? He tried his team one more time.? No answer.? Shit!
Jansen hoped it was just a comm failure.? The hills and the fog might be interfering with communications, but he knew he couldn't count on that.? He looked around to see if anyone was in the parking lot.? Seeing no one, he decided to get out of the car and try to locate the team through binoculars.? If you knew what to look for, it should be possible to see them.? Convincing himself the coast was clear and nobody was watching him, he got his binoculars out and carefully moved toward the edge of the parking lot to look for them.? As he scanned the brush, he saw nothing and nobody.? He tried to make contact once more via radio.? Nothing.? Slowly, he began to realize that something was seriously wrong. ?And standing around unprotected like he was only invited something else to go wrong.? He concluded that he could no longer stay there and that he needed to move to his alternate location.? If something was genuinely wrong, then his location there had probably been compromised.?
Connor!? The FBI wasn't smart enough to figure any of this out.? But if anyone could have, it would be Connor.? But how could he know, and how could he have done anything about it so quickly?
Time to move.? He got back in the car and started it up.?
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