He was picked up this morning at his apartment,... He was picked up this morning at his apartment, which is now as
secure as Fort Knox, and driven to his office under guardHe’ll be brought here later this afternoon
with four changes of vehicles, all made in underground parking lots
“Then it’s open protection, no one’s hiding any longer?”
“That’d be pointlessWe sprung a trap at the Smithsonian and our men were very obvious
“It’s why it might work, isn’t it? The unexpected? Backups behind a protection unit told to make
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“The unexpected works, David, not the dumb Conklin quickly shook his headBourne could turn the dumbs into smarts, but not an officially mounted
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There are too many complications
“I don’t understand
“As good as those men are, they’re primarily concerned with guarding lives, maybe saving
them; they also have to coordinate with each other and make reportsThey’re career people, not
one-shot, prepaid lowlife with an assassin’s knife at their throats if they screw up
“That sounds so melodramatic,” said Webb softly, leaning back in the chair and drinking“I
guess I did operate like that, didn’t I?”
“It was more image than reality, but it was real to the people you used
“Then I’ll find those people again, use them again David shot forward, gripping his glass in
both hands“He’s forcing me out, Alex! The
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“Oh, shut up,” said Conklin irritably“Now you’re the one who’s being melodramaticYou
sound like a grade-Z WesternYou show yourself, Marie’s a widow and the kids have no father
That’s reality, David Webb shook his head, staring at his glass“He’s coming after me, so I have to
go after him; he’s trying to pull me out, so I have to pull him out firstIt’s the only way it can
happen, the only way we’ll get him out of our livesIn the final analysis it’s Carlos against Bourne
We’re back where we were thirteen years ago‘Alpha, Bravo, Cain, Delta Cain is for Carlos and
Delta is for Cain ”
“That was a crazy Paris code thirteen years ago!”
prada fairy interrupted Alex sharply“Medusa’s Delta and
his mighty challenge to the JackalBut this isn’t Paris and it’s thirteen years later!”
“And in five more years it’ll be eighteen; five years after that, twenty-threeWhat the hell do
you want me to do? Live with the specter of that son of a bitch over my family, frightened every
time my wife or my children leave the house, living in fear for the rest of my life? No, you shut
up, field man! You know better than thatThe analysts can come up with a dozen strategies and
we’ll use bits and pieces of maybe six and be grateful, but when it gets down to the mud, it’s
between the Jackal and meAnd I’ve got the advantageI’ve got you on my
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Conklin swallowed while blinking“That’s very flattering, David, maybe too flatteringI’m
better in my own element, a couple of thousand miles away from WashingtonIt was always a little
stifling for me here
“It wasn’t when you saw me off on that plane to Hong Kong five years agoYou’d put together
half the equation by thenIt was a down-and-dirty Doperation that had the smell of rotten halibut, so
rotten it offended my nostrilsThis is different; this is Carlos
“That’s my point, AlexIt is Carlos, not a voice over the telephone neither of us knewWe’re
dealing with a known quantity, someone predictable—”
“Predictable?” broke in Conklin, frowningIn what way?”
“He’s the
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