“We were ambushed while waiting for the plane...
“We were ambushed while waiting for the plane from PoitiersI’m afraid Mo Panov’s in bad
shape, so bad I don’t want to think about it right nowWe’re in a hospital and the doctor’s not
encouraging
“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 chanel tote bags 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 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 tiffany & co. necklace 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 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 watch chanel j12 black with diamonds 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 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 fendi black leather spy bag 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 could persuade to advise the
Pritchards in the event that the Crown brought a case against them as accessories to gucci monogram wallet terrorism