Chapter SevenThe two black Ford Explorers rumbled along the road near the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir at Central Park at 2 AM that morning. Although it was decommissioned as a public reservoir in 1993 due to pollution concerns, it still fed the Pool and the Harlem Meer and was a popular place for residents and tourists alike. The terrorists decided that by releasing a liquid form of the hybrid Ebola strain into the water, all who contacted the virus would carry the plague directly into midtown Manhattan and trigger a new epidemic.
The Explorers were each occupied by three men. In the rear were packed five metal tanks apiece which were filled with the Ebola contaminant. As they slowed to a halt near the 85th Street fenceline, two men emerged from the vehicle before signaling the c
