“What about men like Burton on the Joint Chiefs,...
“What about men like Burton on the Joint Chiefs, and Atkinson in London?”
“No more than messengers and fronts; they’re out for reasons of health, and believe me, they
understand
Panov winced as he adjusted his uncomfortable wounded body in the chair“It hardly
compensates for his crimes, but the Jackal served a purpose of sorts, didn’t he? If you hadn’t been
hunting him, you wouldn’t have found Medusa
“The coincidence of evil, Mo,” said Conklin“I’m not about to recommend a posthumous
medal
“I’d say it’s more than coincidence,” interrupted Panov, shaking his head“In the final analysis,
David was rightWhether forced or leaped upon, a connection was there after allSomeone in
Medusa had a killer or killers using the name of ‘Jason Bourne’ assassinate a high-visibility target
in the Jackal’s own backyard; that someone chanel jumbo bag knew what he was doing
“You mean Teagarten, of courseSince Bourne was on Medusa’s death list, our pathetic turncoat, DeSole, had to tell them
about the Treadstone operation, perhaps not by name but its essentialsWhen they learned that
Jason—David—was in Paris, they used the original scenario: Bourne against the JackalBy killing
Teagarten the way they did, they accurately assumed they were enlisting the most deadly partner
they could find to hunt down and kill DavidSo?”
“Don’t you see, Alex? When you think about it, Brussels was the beginning of the end, and at
the end, David used that false accusation to tell Marie he was still alive, to tell Peter Holland that he
was still aliveThe map circling Anderlecht in red
“He gave hope, that’s allHope isn’t something I put much trust in, Mo
“He did more than give hopeThat message chanel classic handbag made Holland prepare every station in Europe to
expect Jason Bourne, assassin, and to use every extreme to get him back hereSometimes that kind of thing doesn’t
“It worked because weeks ago a man called Jason Bourne knew that to catch Carlos there had to
be a link between himself and the Jackal, a long-forgotten connection that had to be brought to the
surfaceHe did it, you did it!”
“In a hell of a roundabout way,” admitted Conklin“We were reaching, that’s allPossibilities,
probabilities, abstractions—it’s all we had to work with
“Abstractions?” asked Panov gently“That’s such an erroneously passive termHave you any
idea what thunder in the mind abstractions provoke?”
“I don’t even know what you’re talking about
“Those gray cells, AlexThey go crazy, spinning around like infinitesimal Ping-Pong balls
trying to find tiny bay bag chloe tunnels to explode through, drawn by their own inherent compulsions
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“You said it yourself, the coincidence of evilBut I’d suggest another conductor—the magnet of
evilThat’s what you and David created, and within that magnetic field was Medusa
Conklin spun around in the chair and wheeled himself toward the balcony and the descending
orange glow on the horizon beyond the deep-green out islands of Montserrat“I wish everything
was as simple as you put it, Mo,” he said rapidly
“You’ll have to be clearer
“Krupkin’s a dead man
“What?”
“I mourn him as a friend and one hell of an enemyHe made everything possible for us, and
when it was all over, he did what was right, not what was orderedHe let David live and now he’s
paying for it
“What happened to him?”
“According to Holland, he mulberry bayswater bag disappeared from the hospital in Moscow five days ago—he simply
took his clothes and walked outNo one knows how he did it or where he went, but an hour after he
left, the KGB came to arrest him and move him to the Lubyanka
“Then they haven’t caught him—”
“They willWhen the Kremlin issues a Black Alert, every road, train station, airport and border
crossing is put under a microscopeThe incentives are irresistible: whoever lets him out will spend
ten years in a gulagIt’s just a question of time
There was a knock on the front door and Panov called out“It’s open because it’s easier! Come
in
The be-blazered, immaculately dressed assistant manager, MrPritchard, entered, preceded by a
room-service table that he was capable of pushing while standing completely erectHe smiled
broadly and announced his presence as well as his tiffany replica missi