“Oh, God, Alex, I’m sorry
“In his own way, Mo’s... “Oh, God, Alex, I’m sorry
“In his own way, Mo’s a fighterI’ll still bet on himIncidentally, don’t tell MarieIs there anything I can do?”
“Yes, there is, PeterYou can tell me why Medusa’s here in Paris
“In Paris? It’s not according to everything I know and I know a hell of a lot
“Our identification’s positiveThe two guns that hit us an hour ago were sent over by Medusa
We’ve even got a confession of sorts
“I don’t understand!” protested Holland“Paris never entered into our thinkingThere’s no
linkage in the scenario
“Sure, there is,” contradicted the former station chief“You said it yourselfYou called it a selffulfilling
prophecy, remember? The ultimate logic that Bourne conceived as a theoryMedusa
joining up with the Jackal, the
gucci replica target Jason Bourne
“That’s the point, AlexIt was only a theory, hypothetically convincing, but still just a theory,
the basis for a sound strategyBut it never happened
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“Not from this endAs far as we’re concerned, Medusa’s now in Moscow
“Moscow?” Conklin nearly dropped the phone on the doctor’s deskWe’ve concentrated on Ogilvie’s law firm in New York, tapping everything that
could be tappedSomehow—and we don’t know how—Ogilvie was tipped off and got out of the
countryHe took an Aeroflot to Moscow, and the rest of his family headed to Marrakesh?” Alex could barely be heard; frowning, his memory peeled away the years“From
Saigon? A legal officer from Saigon?”
“That’s rightWe’re convinced
gucci watches for women he runs Medusa
“And you withheld that information from me?”
“Only the name of the firmI told you we had our priorities and you had yoursFor us, Medusa
came first
“You simple swab jockey!” exploded Conklin“I know Ogilvie—more precisely, I knew him
Let me tell you what they called him in Saigon: Ice-Cold Ogilvie, the smoothest-talking legal
scumball in VietnamWith a few subpoenas and some research, I could have told you where a few
of his courtroom skeletons were buried—you blew it! You could have pulled him in for fixing the
army courts in a couple of killings—there are no statutes, civilian or military, on those crimes
Jesus, why didn’t you tell me?”
“In all honesty, Alex, you never askedYou simply assumed—rightly so—that I wouldn’t
louis vuitton replicas tell
you
“All right, all right, it’s done—to hell with itBy tomorrow or the next day you’ll have our two
Medusans, so go to work on themThey both want to save their asses—the capo’s a slime, but his
sharpshooter keeps praying for his family and it’s not organizational
“What are you going to do?” pressed Holland
“We’re on our way to Moscow
“After Ogilvie?”
“No, the JackalBut if I see Bryce, I’ll give him your regards
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Buckingham Pritchard sat next to his uniformed uncle, Cyril Sylvester Pritchard, deputy director of
immigration, in the office of Sir Henry Sykes at Government House in MontserratBeside them, on
the deputy’s right, was their attorney, the finest native solicitor Sykes
gucci bag sale could persuade to advise the
Pritchards in the event that the Crown brought a case against them as accessories to terrorismSir
Henry sat behind the desk and glanced in partial shock at the lawyer, one Jonathan Lemuel, who
raised his head and eyes to the ceiling, not to have the benefit of the tropic fan that stirred the
humid air but to show disbeliefLemuel was a Cambridge-educated attorney, once a “scholarship
boy” from the colonies, who years ago had made his money in London and returned in the autumn
of his life to his native ’Serrat to enjoy the fruits of his laborsActually, Sir Henry had persuaded
his retired black friend to give assistance to a couple of idiots who might have involved themselves
in a serious international
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