“Which means you told her I was perfectly fine,... “Which means you told her I was perfectly fine, didn’t you?”
“Hell, yesI said you were holed up under guard going over a lot of computer printouts, sort of a
variation on the truth
“Johnny must have had his talk with herShe told him what’s happened, so he moved them all to
his exclusive bunker
“His what?”
“You never saw Tranquility Inn, or did you? Frankly, I can’t remember whether you did or not
“Panov and I saw only the plans and the site; that was four years agoWe haven’t been back
since, at least I haven’t
“I’ll let that pass because you’ve had a standing invitation since we got the placeAnyway,
you know it’s on the beach and the only way to get there except by water is up a dirt road so filled
with rocks no normal car could make it twiceEverything is flown in by plane or brought over by
boatAlmost nothing from the town
“And the beach is patrolled,”
discount chanel quilted handbag interrupted Conklin“Johnny isn’t taking any chances
“It’s why I sent them down there
“What about now?” said Alex“What about Armbruster?”
“Let’s put it this way,” replied Bourne, his eyes drifting up to the white plastic shell of the pay
phone“What does it mean when a man who has a hundred million dollars in Zurich tells me that
Medusa—point of origin Command Saigon, emphasis on ‘command,’ which is hardly civilian—
should get rid of the military because Snake Lady doesn’t need them any longer?”
“I don’t believe it,” said the retired intelligence officer in a quiet, doubting voiceHe even called them soldier boys, and he wasn’t memorializing them in song
He verbally dismissed the admirals and the generals as gold-braided debutantes who wanted every
new toy in town
“Certain senators on the Armed Services Committee would agree with that assessment,”
concurred AlexWhen I
fendi spy bags reminded him that Snake Lady came out of Saigon—Command
Saigon—he was very clearHe said it may have, but it sure as hell didn’t stay there because and
this is a direct quote—‘The soldier boys couldn’t run with it ”
“That’s a provocative statementDid he tell you why they couldn’t run with it?”
“No, and I didn’t askI was supposed to know the answerI like less and less the sound of what I’m hearing; it’s big and it’s uglyHow
did the hundred million come up?”
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“I told him Medusa might get him a villa someplace out of the country where he couldn’t be
reached if we thought it was necessaryHe wasn’t too interested and said if he wanted one, he’d
buy it himselfHe had a hundred million, American, in Zurich—a fact I think I was also expected
to know
“That was all? Just a simple little one hundred million?”
“Not entirelyHe told me
replica mulberry roxanne handbags that like everybody else he gets a monthly telex—in code—from the
banks in Zurich listing his depositsObviously, they’ve been growing
“Big, ugly and growing,” added Conklin“Anything else? Not that I particularly want to hear it,
I’m frightened enough
“Two more items and you’d better have some fear in reserveArmbruster said that along with
the deposit telexes he gets a listing of the companies they’re gaining control of
“What companies? What was he talking about?
“If I had asked, my wife and children might have to attend a private memorial service, no casket
in evidence because I wouldn’t be there
“You’ve got more to tell me
“Our illustrious chairman of the Federal Trade Commission said that the ubiquitous ‘we’ could
get rid of the military because in six months ‘we’ would have all the controls we needed in EuropeAlex, what controls? What are we dealing
quilted chanel bag with?”
There was silence on the unbroken line, and Jason Bourne did not interruptDavid Webb wanted
to shout in defiance and confusion, but there was no point; he was a non-personFinally, Conklin
spoke
“I think we’re dealing with something we can’t handle,” he said softly, his words barely audible
over the phone“This has to go upstairs, DavidWe can’t keep it to ourselves
“Goddamn you, you’re not talking to David!” Bourne did not raise his voice in anger; he did not
have to, its tone was enough“This isn’t going anywhere unless or until I say it does and I may not
ever say itUnderstand me, field man, I don’t owe anyone anything, especially not the movers and
the shakers in this cityThey moved and shook my wife and me too much for any concessions
where our lives or the lives of our children are concerned! I intend to use everything I can learn for
one purpose and one purpose
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