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Senator Hunter Ramson’s phone buzzed at the same moment as his guest’s, rattling hard on his desk’s cherrywood where he’d set it facedown.
The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland flipped over his phone and glanced at the message.
Syria negative.
He slapped the phone back down. He’d been promised an A-10 Thunderbolt II mission failure in Syria.
“Goddamn it! Can’t you people do anything right?”
Before his guest could answer, his phone rang.
No question who it was. He couldn’t afford to ignore it. But he didn’t want to deal with it either.
Hunter snatched up his phone, accepted the call, and spoke before the caller had a chance to.
“I’m late for a floor vote. We’ll discuss this later.”
He hung up the call and slammed the phone facedown again.
Then he st
