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Jason Bourne?s alive and up to his tricks and that means David?s alive, too
My God, she can?t accept it, thought the brother, walking to the couch and kneeling beside the
coffee table in front of Marie, taking her hands in his?Sis, honey, I don?t think you understandI?ll
do everything possible to help you, but you?ve got to understand
?Bro, you?re very sweet but you haven?t read this closely?really closelyThe impact of the
message detracts from the subtextIn economics we call it obfuscation with a cloud of smoke and a
couple of mirrorsJacques released her hands and stood up?What are you talking about??
Marie picked up the Langley communiqu? and scanned it?After several confused, even
contradictory, accounts of what happened,? she said, ?described by people on the scene at this
armory, or whatever it is, the following is buried in the last paragraph?Among the personal effects
found on the slain assassin?s body was a map of Brussels and the surrounding area with the town of
Anderlecht circled in red Then it goes on to make the obvious connection with Teagarten?s
assassinationIt?s a wash, Johnny, from two points of viewFirst, David would never carry such
a mapSecond, and far more telling, the fact that the Soviet media would give such prominence to
the story is unbelievable enough, but to include the assassination of General Teagarten is simply
too much
?What do you mean? Why??
?Because the presumed assassin was in Russia, and Moscow wants no conceivable linkage to gucci online the
killing of a NATO commanderNo, Bro, someone bent the rules and persuaded Tass to put out
the story, and I suspect heads will rollI don?t know where Jason Bourne is, but I know he?s not
deadDavid made sure I?d know that
Peter Holland picked up the phone and touched the buttons on his console for Charles Casset?s
private line
?Yes??
?Charlie, it?s Peter
?I?m relieved to hear that
?Why??
?Because all I?m getting on this phone is trouble and confusionI just got off with our source in
Dzerzhinsky Square and he told me the KGB?s after blood
?The Tass release on Bourne??
?RightTass and Radio Moscow assumed the story was officially sanctioned because it was
faxed by the Ministry of Information using the proper immediate-release codesWhen the shit hit
the fan, no one owned up, and whoever programmed the codes can?t be traced
?What do you make of it??
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?I?m not sure, but from what I?ve learned about Dimitri Krupkin, it could be his styleHe?s now
working with Alex and if this isn?t something out of the Conklin textbook, I don?t know Saint Alex
?That dovetails with what Marie thinks
?Marie??
?Bourne?s wifeI just spoke to her and her argument?s pretty strongShe says Moscow?s report
is a wash for all the right reasonsIs that what you called to tell me??
?No,? answered the director, taking a deep breath?I?m adding to your trouble and confusion
?I?m not relieved to hear thatWhat is it??
?The Paris telephone number, the link chanel big bag to the Jackal we got from Henry Sykes in Montserrat that
reached a caf? on the Marais waterfront in Paris
?Where someone would answer a call for a blackbird
?Someone did and we followed himYou?re not going to like this
?Alex Conklin is about to earn the prick-of-the-year awardHe put us on to Sykes, didn?t he??
?Yes
?The message was delivered to the home of the director of the Deuxi?me Bureau
?My God! We?d better turn that over to the SED branch of French intelligence with a restricted
chronology
?I?m not turning anything over to anybody until we hear from ConklinWe owe him that
much?I think
?What the hell are they doing?? shouted a frustrated Casset over the phone?Putting out false
death notices?from Moscow, no less! What for??
?Jason Bourne?s gone hunting,? said Peter Holland?And when the hunt is over?if it?s over and
if the kill is made?he?s going to have to get out of the woods before anyone turns on himI
want every station and listening post on the borders of the Soviet Union on full alert
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NovgorodTo say it was incredible was to obliquely recognize the existence of credibility and that
was nearly impossibleIt was the ultimate fantasy, its optical illusions seemingly more real than
reality, the phantasmagoria there to be touched, felt, used, entered into and departed from; it was a
collective masterpiece of invention cut out of the immense forests along the Volkhov RiverFrom
the moment Bourne emerged from the faux gucci bag deep underground tunnel below the water with its guards,
gates and myriad cameras, he was as close to being in a state of shock while still being able to keep
walking, observing, absorbing, thinking
The American compound, presumably like those of the different countries, was broken up into
sections, built on areas anywhere from two to five acres, each distinctly separate from the others
One area, erected on the banks of the river, might be the heart of a Maine waterfront village;
another, farther inland, a small Southern town; yet another, a busy metropolitan city streetEach
was completely ?authentic? with the appropriate vehicular traffic, police, dress codes, shops,
grocery and drug stores, gas stations and mock structures of buildings?many of which rose two
stories high and were so real they had American hardware on the doors and windowsObviously, as
vital as the physical appearances was language?not merely the fluent use of English but the
mastery of linguistic idiosyncrasies, the dialects that were characteristic of specific locationsAs
Jason wandered from one section to another he heard all around him the distinctive soundsFrom
New England Down East with its ?eeahh? to Texas?s drawl and its familiar ?you-alls?; from the
gentle nasality of the Midwest to the loud abrasiveness of the large Eastern cities with the
inevitable ?know what I mean?? tacked on to conversational sentences, whether questions or
statementsIt was all incredibleIt was not simply beyond belief, chanel denim bag it made the true suspension of
disbelief frighteningly viable
He had been briefed on the flight from Vnokova by a late-middle-aged Novgorod graduate who
had been urgently summoned from his Moscow apartment by KrupkinThe small, bald man was
not only garrulously instructive, but in his own way mesmerizingIf anyone had ever told Jason
Bourne that he was going to be briefed in depth by a Soviet espionage agent whose English was so
laced with the Deep South that it sonorously floated out of his mouth with the essence of
magnolias, he would have deemed the information preposterous
?Good Lawd, Ah do miss those barbecues, especially the ribsYou know who grilled ?em best?
That black fellow who I believed was such a good friend until he exposed meCan you imagine? I
thought he was one of those radicalsHe turned out to be a boy from Dartmouth workin? for the
FBIHell, the exchange was made at Aeroflot in New York and we still write
each other
?Adolescent games,? had mumbled BourneOh yes, he was a mighty fine coach
?Coach??
?Sure ?nuffA few of us started a Little League in East PointThat?s right outside Atlanta
?May we concentrate on Novgorod, please??
?Sutt?nlyDimitri may have told you, I?m semi-retired, but my pension requires that I spend five
days a month there as a tak govorya?a ?trainer,? as you would say
?I didn?t understand what he meant
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?Ah?ll explain The strange man whose voice belonged to the old Confederacy had men's omega seamaster been
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