“A field man,” said Alex, getting up with his...
“A field man,” said Alex, getting up with his cane, the frightened, bewildered Panov beside him
Then the doctor spun around, his eyes wide, rushing toward the two fallen Orientals
“Oh, my God, they’re dead,” he cried, kneeling beside the corpses, seeing their blown-apart
throats“Jesus, the amusement park! It’s the same!”
“A message,” agreed Conklin, nodding, wincing“Put rock salt on the trail,” he added
enigmatically
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“What do you mean?” asked the psychiatrist, snapping his head around at the former intelligence
officer
“We weren’t careful enough
“Alex!” roared the gray-haired Holland, running to the tiffany co earrings bench“I heard you, but this neuters the
hotel,” he said breathlessly“You can’t go there now
“It neuters—fucks up—more than the hotelThis isn’t the Jackal! It’s Hong Kong! The externals
were right, but my instincts were wrongWrong!”
“Which way do you want to go?” asked the director softly
“I don’t know,” answered Conklin, a plaint in his voiceReach our man, of
course, as soon as possible
“I spoke to David—I spoke to him about an hour ago,” said Panov, instantly correcting himself
“You spoke to him?” cried Alex“It’s late and you were at homeHow?”
“You know my answering machine,” said the doctor“If I picked up every crazy call after
midnight, costume jewelry chanel I’d never get to the office in the morningSo I let it ring, and because I was getting ready
to go out and meet you, I listenedAll he said was ‘Reach me,’ and by the time I got to the phone,
he’d hung up
“You called him back? On your phone?”
“Well yes,” answered Panov hesitantly“He was very quick, very guardedHe just wanted us
to know what was happening, that ‘M’—he called her ‘M’—was leaving with the children first
thing in the morningThat was it; he hung up right away
“They’ve got your boy’s name and address by now,” said Holland“Probably the message as
well
“A location, yes; the message, maybe,” broke in Conklin, speaking quietly, discount tiffany's necklace rapidly“Not an
address, not a name
“By morning they will have—”
“By morning he’ll be on his way to Tierra del Fuego, if need be
“Christ, what have I done?” exclaimed the psychiatrist
“Nothing anybody else in your place wouldn’t have done,” replied Alex“You get a message at
two o’clock in the morning from someone you care about, someone in trouble, you call back as fast
as you canNow we have to reach him as fast as we canSo it’s not Carlos, but somebody with a
lot of firepower is still closing in, making breakthroughs we thought were impossible
“Use the phone in my car,” said Holland“I’ll put it on overrideThere’ll be no record, no log
“Let’s go!” As miu miu black bag quickly as possible, Conklin limped across the lawn toward the Agency vehicle
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“David, it’s Alex
“Your timing’s pretty scary, friend, we’re on our way out the doorIf Jamie hadn’t had to hit the
potty we’d be in the car by now
“At this hour?”
“Didn’t Mo tell you? There was no answer at your place, so I called him
“Mo’s a little shook upWhat’s happening?”
“Is this phone secure? I wasn’t sure his was
“I’m packing Marie and the kids off south—way southShe’s screaming like hell, but I chartered
a Rockwell jet out of Logan Airport, everything precleared thanks to the arrangements you made
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