“What if they do this time?”
His thin lips twisted in disapproval. “I’ll handle it the way I’ve handled other problems.”
“I’ll leave a letter with my lawyer explaining everything and exposing the agency.”
“Don’t threaten me, Sanders.”
She knew she was playing with fire, but she didn’t have a choice in the matter. She had to convince him. “I have a better chance of surviving with your help than without it,” she told him. “But it doesn’t matter what you say or do. I’m going in after Zach and I’m going to bring him home.”
“I suppose you’re just going to walk in there and take him from under their noses,” Winston said. He reached for his mug and cradled it in both hands.
Jamie sank into her seat. “Exactly.”
He stared at her for a long minute. She couldn’t tell what he was thinking, but she refused to let the silence make her squirm. She was an expert at waiting. She had to convince him. Winston was her only hope. She would go in without agency assistance, but without the backup, the odds for success were almost zero.
Finally he nodded briefly. “Explain.”
Relief crashed through her. She had him. He was going to agree. Once he heard her plan, he would be convinced-she knew it!
She pushed aside the momentary flush of victory and concentrated on the task at hand. She grabbed a pen and the blank legal pad poking out of the pile of papers on his desk. Working quickly, she made a sketch of the compound, based on the aerial photographs she’d seen and what she knew about the area.
She drew the low, one-story building where Zach was probably being kept. A quarter mile away was their munitions storage.
When she finished, she slid the paper toward Winston. “Zach is here,” she said, trying to sound as if she really knew where he was being held instead of just guessing. “It’s not a main training facility, which is in our favor. Also, Zach’s men were there less than a month ago. The debriefing information should still be accurate. The plane will drop us off about thirty miles away, and we’ll drive until we get within sight of the perimeter.”