Final Challenge (34 page)

 
   O'Connor had been appointed by the plot to monitor the activities and reactions of the clone of the President, infusing him confidence about his final recovery and trying that he spoke only the essential and with the least people possible in order to avoid suspicion, especially by Carol.

 
About their boss, his death under mysterious circumstances confirmed the suspicions of Marvin. When their investigations had begun to bear fruit, pointing in the right direction, someone had forced Edwards to let them out of the way and, above all, to falsify the report. Nor it should have cost so much of convincing him,   Hanson thought, because he had persecuted them from the beginning trying to relegate them to ostracism.

 
They had no doubt that Clerigan was right when he said that there were people with a lot of weight supporting him. Kelly had a feeling of
insecurity that she transmitted
to Hanson. They could be the subject of their persecution, his lif
e was in danger.
S
he was reassured by her beloved one
.
They had put all the information held by the FBI and this in turn of the CIA, so their hypothetical death would lead to more headaches than advantages to their executioners. The murder of O'Connor, Edwards and Feaks cut in the bud any possible line of research, so that those involved could breathe easy. Their crimes and their inordinate thirst for power would go unpunished, at least for this once.

 
But they also thought that, from that time, nobody could be sure that those atrocities would not be committed again. A dangerous door had been opened, a path into the abyss, because always there would be power-hungry and unscrupulous people able to take advantage of that technology put at their disposal to achieve their dark goals. They just wou
ld need to bribe someone who could put the mechanism in motion, or support a madman, as Clerigan, who had lost the course of his life by realizing an obsession.

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