Clancy, Tom - Jack Ryan 11 - The Bear And The Dragon by Clancy Tom

Author:Clancy, Tom [Clancy, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R - 7

Developing Leads

It was the sort of coincidence for which police work is known

worldwide. Provalov cal ed militia headquarters, and since he

was investigating a homicide, he got to speak with the St.

Petersburg murder squad leader, a captain. When he said he

was looking for some former Spetsnaz soldiers, the captain

remembered his morning meeting in which two of his men had

reported finding two bodies bearing possible Spetsnaz tattoos,

and that was enough to make him forward the cal .

"Real y, the RPG event in Moscow?" Yevgeniy Petrovich

Ustinov asked. "Who exactly was kil ed?"

"The main target appears to have been Gregoriy Filipovich

Avseyenko. He was a pimp," Provalov told his col eague to the

north. "Also his driver and one of his girls, but they appear to

have been inconsequential." He didn't have to elaborate. You

didn't use an antitank rocket to kil a chauffeur and a whore.

"And your sources tel you that two Spetsnaz veterans did the

shooting?"

"Correct, and they flew back to St. Petersburg soon

thereafter."

"I see. Wel , we fished two such people from the River Neva

yesterday, both in their late thirties or so, and both shot in the

back of the head."

"Indeed?"

"Yes. We have fingerprints from both bodies. We're waiting

for Central Army Records to match them up. But that wil nor he

very fast."

"Let me see what I can do about that, Yevgeniy Petrovich. You

see, also present at the murder was Sergey Nikolay'ch

Golovko, and we have concerns that he might have been the

true target of the kil ing."

"That would be ambitious," Ustinov observed cool y.

"Perhaps your friends at Dzerzhinskiy Square can get the

records morons moving?"

records morons moving?"

"I wil cal them and see," Provalov promised.

"Good, anything else?"

"Another name, Suvorov, Klementi Ivan'ch, reportedly a

former KGB officer, but that is al I have at the moment. Does

the name mean anything to you?" You could hear the man

shaking his head over the phone, Provalov noted.

"Nyet, never heard that one," the senior detective replied as

he wrote it down. "Connection?"

"My informant thinks he's the man who arranged the kil ing."

"I'l check our records here to see if we have anything on him.

Another former 'Sword and Shield' man, eh? How many of

those guardians of the state have gone bad?" the St.

Petersburg cop asked rhetorical y.

"Enough," his col eague in Moscow agreed, with an unseen

grimace.

"This Avseyenko fel ow, also KGB?"

"Yes, he reportedly ran the Sparrow School."

Ustinov chuckled at that one. "Oh, a state-trained pimp.

Marvelous. Good girls?"

"Lovely," Provalov confirmed. "More than we can afford."

"A real man doesn't have to pay for it, Oleg Gregoriyevich,"

the St. Petersburg cop assured his Moscow col eague.

"That is true, my friend. At least not until long afterwards,"

Provalov added.

"That is the truth!" A laugh. "Let me know what you find out?"

"Yes, I wil fax you my notes."

"Excel ent. I wil share my information with you as wel ,"

Ustinov promised. There is a bond among homicide

investigators across the world. No country sanctions the private

taking of human life. Nation-states reserve such power for

themselves alone.

In his dreary Moscow office, Lieutenant Provalov made his

notes for several minutes. It was too late to cal the RVS about

rattling the Central Army Records cage.

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