51
BOATS OF DESTRUCTION
NSA Headquarters.
“Found who?” Latent said.
Cade cut in. “His full name is Khalid Safeer Kunde. Yes, his last name is Kunde. Jana was right. He’s the younger brother of Shakey Kunde. And you were right too, Uncle Bill, about him having penetrated somewhere vital.”
Knuckles stepped in front of Cade, hoping to assert his expertise.
“He’s deep. He’s not only in the CIA, he’s as deep as one can get.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Bill said. “Like how deep?”
Neither Knuckles nor Cade wanted to be the one to deliver the worst of the news, but Knuckles spoke anyway. “He’s an operative.”
Bill’s glasses slid off his nose and landed on his desk.
“An operative? I get the fact that we were right, that he was either in the CIA or NSA, but an operative? Are you sure?”
