Thin Blood Thick Water (Clueless Resolutions Book 2) Read Online Free
Author: W B Garalt
personally reinforced the pontoon support structure of the Cessna Caravan to allow for the extra strain on the undercarriage during these maneuvers: Otherwise the plane appeared to be stock.
There had been times when quick landings and/or take-offs were necessary in order to maintain anonymity and confidentiality during a security mission. More importantly, it had saved a few of the Partners from incurring bodily harm.
Chip Chaplain and Ezra Carrol walked to the front office section and took the elevator to the 3rd level mezzanine where Chip’s office was located. The two Partners spent the balance of this weekend morning working through an extensive de-briefing session, alone except for a security guard, in an otherwise unoccupied building.
Chapter 5
At the beginning point of his association with the Partnership, Max Hargrove sensed that it would be best to simply look, listen, and absorb. This level of the security business was new to Max and there was a lot to learn. He experienced, however, a vague and somewhat unnerving wonderment as to just how he would ‘fit into the picture’ in this new work environment. He had been escorted through the USAP headquarters building by Chip Chaplain during his third visit. He was impressed with the high-tech apparatus and configuration of the construction. With his extensive real estate background he had dealt with a variety of structure types so he could appreciate the planning and effort that had gone into converting the standard modern industrial building into what amounted to a security laboratory. He wondered which of the Partners was, or were, responsible for the design.
Chip’s office contained a private conference room and a fully equipped efficiency apartment, which was stocked with preserved and/or frozen edibles and drink. The sound resistant enclosure, situated just below roof level, overlooked the entire hangar section on one side and the open office area at ground level on the opposite side. The views of the areas below, and across the hangar to Brad Charles’s 2nd floor mezzanine office, were through one-way glass. A submarine-style periscope, when in a raised position above roof level, offered a 360 degree long distance view of the surrounding countryside and lake.
The remainder of the other Partners’ abutting offices were in the raised, U-shaped, 2 nd level section around three sides of the open office. The offices were accessed via a raised walkway.
At the rear section of each Partner’s office was a private bathroom. Each bathroom had a second door at the rear, key-coded only to the occupying Partner, which opened onto an enclosed walkway leading around behind the office walls. The walkway culminated at a briefing room just below Chips office, which was centrally situated over the wall dividing the hangar and front office sections.
An elevator started at ground level with stops at the briefing room and then at Chips office. At a coded-access stop below the ground-floor level there was an underground elevator service area which connected to Brad Charles’s service section by a tunnel under the hangar floor.
A circular metal stairway, which rose through the ceiling of the CEO’s office, provided access to a closed cupola located on the roof of the building. The cupola exterior was fashioned to resemble a heating/air conditioning (HVAC) enclosure.
In addition to a ground-level landing pad for helicopter conveyances on the front lawn of the building, a smaller auxiliary pad was located on the reinforced roof.
Security cameras were discretely located throughout the interior and exterior of the building. Duplicate monitoring panels situated behind glass-paneled walls were arranged in Chip’s office and Brad Charles’s office. The monitor screens could only be activated wirelessly, by access code.
An 80 ft. long section, at ground level along one exterior wall of the hangar, was double- walled and contained a sound-proofed firing
There had been times when quick landings and/or take-offs were necessary in order to maintain anonymity and confidentiality during a security mission. More importantly, it had saved a few of the Partners from incurring bodily harm.
Chip Chaplain and Ezra Carrol walked to the front office section and took the elevator to the 3rd level mezzanine where Chip’s office was located. The two Partners spent the balance of this weekend morning working through an extensive de-briefing session, alone except for a security guard, in an otherwise unoccupied building.
Chapter 5
At the beginning point of his association with the Partnership, Max Hargrove sensed that it would be best to simply look, listen, and absorb. This level of the security business was new to Max and there was a lot to learn. He experienced, however, a vague and somewhat unnerving wonderment as to just how he would ‘fit into the picture’ in this new work environment. He had been escorted through the USAP headquarters building by Chip Chaplain during his third visit. He was impressed with the high-tech apparatus and configuration of the construction. With his extensive real estate background he had dealt with a variety of structure types so he could appreciate the planning and effort that had gone into converting the standard modern industrial building into what amounted to a security laboratory. He wondered which of the Partners was, or were, responsible for the design.
Chip’s office contained a private conference room and a fully equipped efficiency apartment, which was stocked with preserved and/or frozen edibles and drink. The sound resistant enclosure, situated just below roof level, overlooked the entire hangar section on one side and the open office area at ground level on the opposite side. The views of the areas below, and across the hangar to Brad Charles’s 2nd floor mezzanine office, were through one-way glass. A submarine-style periscope, when in a raised position above roof level, offered a 360 degree long distance view of the surrounding countryside and lake.
The remainder of the other Partners’ abutting offices were in the raised, U-shaped, 2 nd level section around three sides of the open office. The offices were accessed via a raised walkway.
At the rear section of each Partner’s office was a private bathroom. Each bathroom had a second door at the rear, key-coded only to the occupying Partner, which opened onto an enclosed walkway leading around behind the office walls. The walkway culminated at a briefing room just below Chips office, which was centrally situated over the wall dividing the hangar and front office sections.
An elevator started at ground level with stops at the briefing room and then at Chips office. At a coded-access stop below the ground-floor level there was an underground elevator service area which connected to Brad Charles’s service section by a tunnel under the hangar floor.
A circular metal stairway, which rose through the ceiling of the CEO’s office, provided access to a closed cupola located on the roof of the building. The cupola exterior was fashioned to resemble a heating/air conditioning (HVAC) enclosure.
In addition to a ground-level landing pad for helicopter conveyances on the front lawn of the building, a smaller auxiliary pad was located on the reinforced roof.
Security cameras were discretely located throughout the interior and exterior of the building. Duplicate monitoring panels situated behind glass-paneled walls were arranged in Chip’s office and Brad Charles’s office. The monitor screens could only be activated wirelessly, by access code.
An 80 ft. long section, at ground level along one exterior wall of the hangar, was double- walled and contained a sound-proofed firing
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