Chapter 3Best Laid Plans
In the normal course of events, Mark Vincent and I would never come into contact—that was the way it was between the CIA and the WBIS—but events that summer had been anything but normal.
A scientist by the name of Bruchner had been hired by the Huntingdon Corporation to develop a renewable, nonpolluting form of energy that would be inexpensive to produce but for which they’d charge all the traffic would bear. He claimed he’d been successful; however, for some reason suddenly fearing for his life, he’d contacted the CIA to obtain protection.
A brief analysis of the data he provided us indicated that it would behoove us to obtain this source and to give him the protection he requested.
Because Bruchner was so fearful, it was arranged that I, a senior officer, mee
