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A NEW HOST
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Arlen Specter Headquarters and Emergency Operations Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Rafael sat in the back of the van and squinted through a pair of ATN Night Vision Goggles. They cut through the darkness and illuminated his next target, Dr. Katherine Whelan, the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. He then looked up at the ten-story building behind her, a tightly controlled government facility nestled into the sprawling campus of Emory University in Atlanta. It was silhouetted against the night sky and looked more like the corporate headquarters of a Wall Street darling than an arm of the federal government. But the property had tight security; of that, Rafael was sure. Years of threat assessments from the FBI and
