Chapter Twenty Three

We soon established our link within the White House and he arranged a meeting with the President and the rest was up to us. The meeting wasn’t for another week due to the President's prior commitments he was out of the country for a few days so Jack and I did our touristy thing. We happily wandered the New York streets soaking in the atmosphere of the city that never sleeps walking through Central Park. We were stopped by the friendly locals fascinated by Jack’s huge white dog and they all wanted to chat. I was petted and fussed over by old ladies and children much to his amusement as we meandered through the beautiful scenery I probed the minds of random people testing my powers for the upcoming meeting. We ate their famous hot dogs, tasted the Italian ice cream and Jack drank gallons of hot strong black American coffee. We both made the same huge mistake, we let our guard down thinking we were anonymous among the millions of tourists. We seriously underestimated American intelligenc