Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Cade stood over Kyle MacKerron's hospital bed and stared down at him. He was looking right at him, his closest friend in the world, but didn't really see anything. His mind swirled back to that night in the Thoughtstorm building two weeks earlier when all hell had broken loose. He and Jana had come so close to stealing the data from Rupert Johnston's computer without being detected when Johnston himself had caught them red handed.
No one knew how volatile the situation actually was. The CIA, operating a covert operation to infiltrate a US-based terror network had contracted Thoughtstorm, Inc. to engage in encrypted email communications with the terror cell in order to help the CIA climb higher into the terrorist's lair; an effort to break the
