Chapter 30
Ben hated the whole plan. He’d hated the plan from the start, but having Lennon hang around in New York essentially begging for trouble made him sick to his stomach. It wasn’t right. Lennon hadn’t signed up to risk himself against foreign adversaries. “It’s one thing when we do it,” Ben argued to his colleagues, while Lennon gave an impromptu workshop about nanotechnology and its uses to repair trauma in the field. “We chose this. He chose a lab.”
“Okay, you’re not wrong.” Kaden shrugged. “And it sucks for him, don’t get me wrong. But the Russians aren’t exactly big on free choice. They chose to try to kill or capture him. All we’re doing is trying to make it happen on our terms, not theirs, and he’s helping to make that happen.”
Ben growled in frustration, but he couldn’t de
