Chapter 5Cameron burst through the front double-paned glass doors of the Security Building, scanning the large entrance lobby for any sign of Supervisor Harkin. Harkin was nowhere to be seen.
The wall clock read 10:20 p.m.
Only twenty minutes late, Cameron thought. Not bad.
Straight ahead was the search train, a long gauntlet of sophisticated security search-machines; x-ray machines, explosives detectors, and metal detectors. Among the devices was a Barringer Sentinel Contraband Detection Portal, capable of detecting traces of ammonium nitrate, semtex, RDX, PETN, TNT and other explosives; nerve and blister agents such as mustard gas, Agent VX, tabun, sarin, soman and cyclosarin; and a wide range of narcotics including m*******a, cocaine, methamphetamine, and h****n.
Beyond the search t
