34
Of Rogues and Danger
Safe house, Gray’s Farm Main Road, Hawksbill Bay.
Cade collected the envelopes and candies and dropped them onto the desk next to his laptop. He studied the monitor again and shook his head. “Where is that satellite?” His cellphone buzzed. “Cade Williams?”
“Cade,” Knuckles said. “Hold on, here’s Uncle—”
Uncle Bill came on the phone. “Cade, we’ve got a problem with the satellite.”
“No kidding. I can’t make a connection. I’m going to reposition the NROL-55 to see if I can get a better signal.”
“That won’t help. The uplink has been cut, purposely.”
“Bill, what are you talking about?”
“Don’t worry about that right now. We don’t have much time.” Bill was almost speed-talking. “There’s a spotter on your twelve o’clock. You’ve got to get—”
The phone call clipped
