Brock: Debrief
Chapter 4
Adrian Brock hated the debriefing room, though he was quite familiar with it. After every operation, he’d be forced to sit in an uncomfortable aluminum chair recounting minute-by-minute events to whatever CIA lackeys Langley had sent in that week. It was monotonous and he always felt like they looked down on him.
Adrian did take some solace in the fact that this was the last time he’d ever have to do it. His mission to track Porter Levitt hadn’t gone as planned, but his reassignment was inevitable. It had already been signed off by Director Shalek. Adrian continued describing the events of the previous night to the agents even though it annoyed him severely.
“He walked out of the store carrying what I assumed was a candy bar. It was actually an M9. He fired five rounds at me, including one that hit the engine of my vehicle.
“I chased him into the woods just south of the road we were on,” Adrian said. “I followed him for about seven minutes before I lost his trail, at which point I was hit in the back of the head.
“The next thing I remember,” Adrian continued, “it was roughly 40 minutes later and I had a massive cut below my eye. I immediately went to the hospital to have it stitched…”
The agents jotted notes down as Adrian spoke. He couldn’t wait to finish the story and get out of that room.
An hour later, Adrian sat down in Shalek’s office. Tom Shalek was the director of the Department of Special Research and he was opening up a new branch of study to be operated by the man who gathered the initial intelligence for it — Adrian Brock.
About two months before, an old associate of Adrian’s contacted him with information about an item the DSR has been searching for every since it was created. Gilbert Carlock had discovered the Patmos Music Box which was actually a tool for finding a set of writings hidden by John, famous for writing The Book of Revelation in the Bible.
Adrian had traveled to Miami to retrieve the box and the cipher that was built into it. The week before he tailed Levitt, Adrian had led an operation to Greece where John had hidden the scrolls. They had been submerged in an underwater cave wrapped in a special wax to keep the paper from getting wet and being destroyed. Adrian and his team found the cave at the center of a triangle created by the islands of Patmos, Levitha and Leros.
The writings were mind boggling yet in perfect condition. There were over 50 pounds of parchment scrolls after the wax was removed. Analysts were still translating and studying the documents when Adrian has his meeting with Shalek.
Adrian had been telling Shalek about what they knew so far from the text. “Basically, director, we need to find these seven people and bring them together.”
“Does the text tell us how to find them?” Shalek asked.
“Not really,” Adrian responded. “What it does say is that before these people are ready to fulfill their purposes, they will experience major cataclysmic events in their lives. They’re still studying the scrolls, but right now, that’s all we know.”
Adrian Brock hated the debriefing room, though he was quite familiar with it. After every operation, he’d be forced to sit in an uncomfortable aluminum chair recounting minute-by-minute events to whatever CIA lackeys Langley had sent in that week. It was monotonous and he always felt like they looked down on him.
Adrian did take some solace in the fact that this was the last time he’d ever have to do it. His mission to track Porter Levitt hadn’t gone as planned, but his reassignment was inevitable. It had already been signed off by Director Shalek. Adrian continued describing the events of the previous night to the agents even though it annoyed him severely.
“He walked out of the store carrying what I assumed was a candy bar. It was actually an M9. He fired five rounds at me, including one that hit the engine of my vehicle.
“I chased him into the woods just south of the road we were on,” Adrian said. “I followed him for about seven minutes before I lost his trail, at which point I was hit in the back of the head.
“The next thing I remember,” Adrian continued, “it was roughly 40 minutes later and I had a massive cut below my eye. I immediately went to the hospital to have it stitched…”
The agents jotted notes down as Adrian spoke. He couldn’t wait to finish the story and get out of that room.
An hour later, Adrian sat down in Shalek’s office. Tom Shalek was the director of the Department of Special Research and he was opening up a new branch of study to be operated by the man who gathered the initial intelligence for it — Adrian Brock.
About two months before, an old associate of Adrian’s contacted him with information about an item the DSR has been searching for every since it was created. Gilbert Carlock had discovered the Patmos Music Box which was actually a tool for finding a set of writings hidden by John, famous for writing The Book of Revelation in the Bible.
Adrian had traveled to Miami to retrieve the box and the cipher that was built into it. The week before he tailed Levitt, Adrian had led an operation to Greece where John had hidden the scrolls. They had been submerged in an underwater cave wrapped in a special wax to keep the paper from getting wet and being destroyed. Adrian and his team found the cave at the center of a triangle created by the islands of Patmos, Levitha and Leros.
The writings were mind boggling yet in perfect condition. There were over 50 pounds of parchment scrolls after the wax was removed. Analysts were still translating and studying the documents when Adrian has his meeting with Shalek.
Adrian had been telling Shalek about what they knew so far from the text. “Basically, director, we need to find these seven people and bring them together.”
“Does the text tell us how to find them?” Shalek asked.
“Not really,” Adrian responded. “What it does say is that before these people are ready to fulfill their purposes, they will experience major cataclysmic events in their lives. They’re still studying the scrolls, but right now, that’s all we know.”
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