Danger Woman by Frederick Ramsay

Author:Frederick Ramsay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 2016-04-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-three

For his part, Joseph Ikanya made a very passable director on the “cloned” phone Modise set up. Superintendent Mwambe sounded very convincing as the local police. He should have. He was the local police. The two men, happy to be involved in a real way and in what they described as “hi-tech” police work but also, well out of harm’s way, began a series of sporadic calls back and forth intended to distract and misinform Lenka’s people. They would do so at odd hours and irregular intervals for the next several days. If Lenka was listening, he would have discovered several interesting things. He would hear that numerous people with questionable visas were attempting to enter the country and join the personnel at the casino. That there was an emergency at the border with Zambia which involved a shipment of liquor that had not been properly taxed. They might have wondered at the report that game rangers were being armed with side arms and posted to secure the park from unauthorized entry, specifically to curtail the dropping of corpses in the bush. Lenka’s people in the Ranger Service said they knew nothing about that. They would ask. One did and disappeared. There were references to operations with names like “Lion Strike” and “Baboon Watch.” Mwambe made that one up.

They also would have heard that the American who owned the casino had left the country and that the ownership of had been transferred to a Botswana-based corporation. That message happened to be the only truthful one. Leo Painter had flown back to Chicago to attend to his sick wife. As his health was also questionable and his return to Botswana uncertain, he’d incorporated the operation and placed Greshenko as its COO. Greshenko had objected. He felt that he’d done nothing to deserve the position. Leo said he agreed. He would do it anyway, he said, because…well, because he wanted to and because he could.

The news came as a surprise, but a good one. Modise wanted Lenka to know that the American was out of play and that his only point of entry to the casino now would have to be through Greshenko. This move by Painter, he realized, had both good points and bad; good because assuming control of a corporation should be easier for Lenka than wresting it from a private owner. The bad part: it significantly reduced Modise’s hold on Greshenko. He wondered if that hadn’t been Painter’s intent all along. Well, what was done was done. He would worry about Lenka’s next moves later. At least, Modise figured, he’d baited the hook. Now, he would do some fishing.

The intercepted phone calls confused and worried Lenka’s sources in Cape Town and Gaborone. They could not confirm any of the information in them except the one concerning the American’s departure. Lenka struggled with who or what to believe. In the past, the sources in Gaborone and Cape Town had been spot on. Now he weren’t so sure. Had any

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