CHAPTER 75

FLOYD RETURNED TO THE ROOM WHERE President Kenan was. Gregory Evans tried to see him, but the door was quickly closed. He returned to Agent Adams and stood in front of his corpse, his eyes wide and his mouth open, an expression of agony rarely seen by the investigator.

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He had killed before, only a few times. He knew what it was like to carry the weight of a life taken, but never had the act shocked him so much.

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There was fear in Adams's eyes, even after he was dead.

What could a look of fear translate on the face of a criminal on the verge of committing his crime?

Someone who was sent to do such a thing would already be prepared for the act...

Many would have anger, malice, the most psychotic perhaps contempt or even pleasure... but fear? Something was wrong...

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The stranger's last words on the phone echoed in his mind:

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There was an unusual connection between that word and Agent Adams's leap into madness, of that Greg was certain.

But what was that connection?

Was that word really a command?