“I have a young woman who’s met him in person.”

The other agent’s eyebrows furrowed, and he sat forward. “How reliable is your intel?”

“Very. But let’s cut to the chase, gentleman. We both know that the CIA and FBI have black budgets and secret facilities and task forces around the globe. All I want is the latitude and support to form my own task force. My own small team, handpicked by me. We’ll start by hunting down Kruger and Mobius. In order to do that, I’m going to need support and intelligence from both the FBI and CIA. That’s the price for me being a good soldier and keeping my mouth shut about all the dirty little secrets we’ve uncovered.”

The directors of the FBI and CIA exchanged glances and seemed to communicate with their eyes. Then the FBI director—a stern but highly intelligent woman who Carter had worked with before when she was head of the New York office—said, “Okay. You have your task force and your support to investigate Mobius. But we will expect results.”

“Don’t worry, ma’am. I expect to give you results.”

“Good. What do you want to call this task force? We have to give it a designation for the bean counters. Even when it comes out of the black budget.”

Carter smiled. “I hadn’t really thought about it. I suppose you can just assign some random meaningless code name like usual.”

He shook hands with the men and women at the table and stood to leave, but halfway to the door, Carter stopped in his tracks and turned back to the director.

“Actually, ma’am,” he said. “I do have a code name for the task force. Call it Spectrum.”

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