Chapter 48‘IS THE BWC WIRED into the monitors?’ asked the general.
‘Yes, sir,’ said his PA. ‘Just click here when you want them on.’
Sheilla appeared on the screen. ‘All set here.’
‘Summarize our story,’ said the general to Bertrand.
‘Lab tech Rojoz somehow contaminates himself and unknown articles with smallpox. He passes it to street person dubbed Pan. He flies to Bogotá. He disappears from the wedding. His parents disappear. Why? The army takes them to keep them quiet. Conclusion, Mateo is no longer in Bogotá. He was taken to the army’s forward headquarters base at Larandia.’
‘It is still unconfirmed from our sources on the base,’ said Eileen. Her short bleached-blonde hair kept her from looking like an upper-echelon government employee.
‘Eileen, I haven’t introduced you to Sheill
