Kill Anton Slayne!

The Day Guard,

Cornelius Crane video calls Chloe Armitage... a brief discussion ensues.

Crane's eyes narrowed. “Your next mission is to find and kill Anton Slayne, that is your only mission now.”
“Excuse me, Sir, don’t you mean Arthur Slayne?” Chloe asked, momentarily nonplussed.
“No. I mean Anton Slayne, his grandson.”
“Yes, Sir. I presume this is the same person known as Anton Smith in the Panopticon, who is with the Mirovar force team - is that correct?”
“Yes. Why didn’t you know about Anton Slayne?”
“He wasn’t there when I went to the house in Boston. Marcus and I broke in and waited for William and Anna Slayne to return from a Boston University faculty dinner.”
“You should have known they had a son. The Panopticon has been compromised, the data for Anton Smith is fake.”
“Compromised? By whom?”
“Good question, it remains to be seen.” Crane stared at her. “When I find out, my punishment of the culprit will know no bounds.”
Chloe blinked, “Sir?”
“You have your orders, I expect results.”
“Yes, Sir.”
Crane closed the call.

Chloe said, "[INSERT CLUSTER F-BOMB]."
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Published on March 17, 2018 21:49 Tags: snippet, the-day-guard
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message 1: by Annerlee (new)

Annerlee Never mind your [INSERT CLUSTER F-BOMB] Chloe - you might have guessed it wouldn't be such plain sailing (lol)... Well done to you Crane.


message 2: by Graeme (new)

Graeme Rodaughan Twists and turns aplenty coming up.


message 3: by Annerlee (new)

Annerlee A white knuckle rollercoaster ride? I'm getting the picture ; )


message 4: by Graeme (new)

Graeme Rodaughan The Day Guard is more like A Traitor's War (minus the training scenes) in look and feel as various players reposition and adapt strategies and tactics, motivations become clearer as characters are more fully revealed leading into Book #5 - The Crane War - where the action again takes off and barrels along for what I think will be a 350+ page book (my longest and most ambitious project), and one in which a major character who has been operating off scene comes into full view.


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