Today’s
excerpt is from Sedona Chip, Book #9 of the nine-book Janitors Series. Joyce, a retired actress, passes phony
information to a French spy as part of the Sedona Chip ploy. Enjoy and have a fantastic day.
m.j.
While
the Janitors rested, Joyce Bettencourt was approached by the French spy who had
recruited her for information. He
thought himself suave, and a ladies man.
Joyce routinely drove to work in her own car, and normally wore very
casual clothing. She wanted to appear
like a real person, not the very rich lady she was. She had swept floors, cleaned toilets, and
done other mundane things at the main Bettencourt Industries plant. She had learned the business, literally, from
the ground floor up. Steve was very
proud of her for that, and the employees all loved her and her attitude. When the spy had first noticed her, he
figured her to be a secretary, or something of the kind. In fact, he still didn’t know she was
co-owner of the plant with her husband.
When
his efforts to lure her into bed failed, he offered her money, to find out what
secrets she could. On his first approach
to her, she became suspicious, in part, because she had been warned repeatedly
by Steve that such attempts might be forthcoming. All employees had been so warned. After the first attempt to make inroads with
her failed, she mentioned the contact to Steve.
He immediately called the FBI and they soon set up a program for her to
go along with him for money. The
information she had given the spy over the last three years had all been
incorrect. Close enough to be
believable—but enough to mess up a French company trying to duplicate the work
done by Bettencourt Industries.
She
was not surprised in the least when the contact was made. In this case, the plan of what to give the
spy had already been figured out. He was
told that Bettencourt Industries only made some component parts and tools for a
secret weapon project. The parts were
for assembly of a satellite. Joyce told
him there was no way to give him more information, because the government had
taken all copies of the plans and specifications for the parts and tools, and
molds used in the production of the material had been destroyed.
The
excited spy gave Joyce five-thousand dollars for the information, and raced off
to call Maurice Lambourne, who was very pleased to get the report, and was soon
calling Claude Basset. Of course the
entire conversation had been video-taped and, when shown in the White House—and
finally reaching Jim and the Janitors a few days later—had them in stitches as
they watched.
Jim
had a case of fine non-French champagne sent to Joyce, with a note that read,
“Nice acting job, for a toilet cleaner.”
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