ECHO FIVE

David Chacko

Published by Foremost Press at Smashwords

Copyright 2008 David Chacko

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PART I:

THE THIRD FRONT

CHAPTER 1

Rogers Wittlemore was not on a list of heavy-lifters in the District, yet his office at Headquarters NIC said otherwise. It had a door that was not made of clear plastic and could be opened or closed at will. Though not large, Overhead Projections gave the appearance of more due to the sparseness of the furniture.

Only one chair stood before the desk where mementos were few. On the blotter was a photograph of the daughter who had graduated from Oberlin, but none of the wife who had divorced in Fairfax. The translucent map of the world mounted a short distance from the wall was a firmament with a changing bed of stars. The green and yellow lights meant something that was not yet apparent. The red lights—and there were more than a couple—spoke of things not yet written in the secret history of the wars of America. The meanings were so secret that they would not appear, annotated, in the Washington Post for a week or two.