confident that the tides could be turned on them. When the American public saw the ugly and greedy truth of these individuals that NSurv would provide to them, the fissure would rupture into an epic earthquake that would destroy these men and their ilk. But more importantly for the people of this country, return the nation back onto a path of prosperity once again where all would economically rise. Dave turned his attention back to the table. His three new found friends were still jawboning back and forth with one another. Rodgers had been explaining a new movie his company was releasing soon that was filmed out in the south Pacific and starred a couple of A-list actors. The movie’s plot focused around a small island village that was in jeopardy of being swallowed up by the rising tides of the Pacific Ocean caused by rapid climate change. The other two men seemed quite impressed with it. Dave looked down at his watch and saw that it was half past nine. Ron and Dan were going to start worrying about him if he didn’t get out of here ASAP. “Gentlemen, it was a pleasure meeting you but I must get going,” said Dave as he stood up. “I have some emails that I must catch up on and I don’t want to miss the Secretary’s speech.” “It was a pleasure meeting you,” replied Kenneth Goldsmith. “Yes, you certainly don’t want to miss her speech. I hear it has some very interesting news from the administration.” Rodgers and Dingle echoed Goldsmith’s words and stood up and shook hands with Dave as he departed their table and the lounge.
Chapter 24 (March 8, Saturday 10:30am Pacific Daylight Savings Time) Dave returned to the room at the Hotel El Camino where Ron and Dan were holed up and making their final preparations for the Secretary’s speech. “Jeez Dave, we were beginning to get a little worried about you,” commented Ron. “I thought I was going to have to go out and hunt you down. After our little incident with your plane the other day we were not sure if you had maybe been abducted.” “No, I was just enjoying my breakfast with a few new found friends,” responded Dave. “I also got a chance to see that Dimitris Barbas and Jason Evans, as we expected, were attending today’s Business Leaders meeting.” “Did you actually get to meet the two of them?” asked Dan. “No, I was too busy personally enjoying the company of the CEO of Hybrid Motors and two movie producers,” replied Dave. “Talk about sewn from the same cloth. They were all serving up the same political pablum.” “Well we have pretty much everything in place,” said Ron as he swept his hand across the hotel room. It looked more like a NASA command launch center than it did a hotel room. There were four laptop computers opened up as well as three tablets. In addition, a couple of boxes containing nano-flies were sitting on the desk next to one of the laptops. While Ron and Dan would remotely manage the deployment of the nanotechnology surveillance sensors from the hotel room, Dave planned to attend the Secretary’s speech in person. If necessary, he’d also provide field reports and guidance back to them through a micro VHF radio that he kept tucked away in his inside suit coat pocket. They reviewed their plans one last time. Dan would deploy both nano-flies fifteen minutes before the Secretary’s speech and have one positioned facing the Secretary and the other facing the audience. Five minutes into the Secretary’s speech, Ron would fire the squibs to the two canisters that held the nano-dust. Within three minutes the air conditioner intake fans will have disbursed the contents of the two canisters into the conference room. Five minutes later, each occupant in the room will have ingested enough nano-dust to allow Ron to configure the video and audio sensor constructs within each target host. Ten minutes later the nano-construct sensors would be verified operational in each host. With