Rogers drove back to Hampton more confused than he’d ever been.

 

Chapter 42

 

AFTER LEAVING KNOX, Puller had hoofed it to a rental place and a half hour later

driven out in a Mitsubishi Outlander.

 

He had not discounted anything that Knox had told him. In fact, he believed

every word.

 

If this project at Building Q had ended in the murders of four women, and

possibly his mother as well, that would be a secret the government would go to

great lengths to bury. And for very good reason.

 

Money drove the Defense Department as much as anything else.

 

If this story got out, Puller could see billions and maybe tens of billions of

dollars of defense spending drying up. And shoulder stars, promotions, and

retirement packages might be eviscerated as fingers were pointed and blame

placed.

 

And a lot of private contractors who made their living off Uncle Sam would see

their bottom lines crash and burn, their stock prices crater, and their huge

executive paychecks disappear.