The Discarded

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Abraham Delger wondered once more if it might be time to get out of the game.

His latest assignment, like most of those he’d been forced to take in the last year or so, had nothing to do with his communications and tech expertise. He could see the reason every time he looked in a mirror. His sixtieth birthday was five weeks behind him. In a world that favored the young, he was an anomaly. When it came to tech work, most clients refused to believe someone his age would even be aware of the latest breakthroughs, let alone understand how to utilize them.

So, in the past twenty-six months, he’d served as a decoy driver, a lookout, a contact point, and a consultant who ended up sitting in a back room throughout a whole operation, the only questions thrown his way having to do with directions to the bathroom and did he know where the op lead was.

And now this.

“I need someone I can trust implicitly,” Gavin Carter had told him. The man had flown out to San Diego to meet with Abraham in person. Nobody did that anymore. “I need someone to do the task and not ask any questions. Now or later. Someone I can keep off the books. A link breaker. You’re the only person I trust to do this for me.”

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