The Collectors
Chapter One
ROGER SEAGRAVES WALKED OUT of the U.S. Capitol after an interesting
meeting that, surprisingly, had had little to do with politics. That
evening he sat alone in the living room of his modest suburban home
after arriving at an important decision. He had to kill someone, and
that someone was a very significant target. Instead of a daunting
proposition, Seagraves saw it as a worthy challenge.
The next morning Seagraves drove to his office in northern Virginia.
Sitting at his desk in a space that was small and cluttered, and
looked exactly the same as other work spaces up and down the
corridor, he mentally assembled the critical pieces of his task.
Seagraves finally concluded that he would do the deed himself,
unwilling to trust it to a third party. He'd killed before, many
times in fact; the only difference now was he wouldn't be doing it
for his government. This one was all for him.
He spent the next two days in careful, decisive preparation
efficiently conducted around his day job. The three imperatives of
his mission were embedded in every action he performed: (1) keep it
simple; (2) p ... read full excerpt from: The Collectors ebook
