Endanger Species: Part 3: A Sleeping Dogs Thriller by Falbey John Wayne

Author:Falbey, John Wayne [Falbey, John Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: The Falbey Group, LLC
Published: 2015-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34—Dubai

Whelan’s plane arrived in Dubai at 2:30 in the morning Gulf Standard Time. Dingle was five time zones away and he could sense the jetlag. He was supposed to have arrived in Dubai hours earlier, but not unexpectedly his connecting commercial flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was delayed.

Whelan carried an Australian passport. His cover was that of a construction manager for one of the Mueller brothers’ international companies, inspecting a site on Palm Jumeirah Island for the proposed construction of a vacation home for a reclusive Swiss billionaire. He was modestly familiar with residential construction from his hands-on renovations of the Fianna Inn. And he’d spent two days in Dingle with a construction manager flown in by the Muellers. Still, he hoped to avoid engaging in any detailed conversations concerning the construction process.

Quentin Thomas had arrived a day earlier, a lawyer on vacation from Senegal. His ancestors had been brought to America from West Africa as slaves in the eighteenth century, so he had the physique and look of natives of the area.

Larsen and Stensen had been in Dubai for two days. They carried Canadian passports and ostensibly were in the Emirate as soccer coaches observing a major international tournament currently underway.

Kirkland already had been in the country for ten days as a newly hired property manager for a foreign investor who owned several apartment buildings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Kirkland carried a passport identifying him as a Scot from Edinburgh.

Almeida arrived shortly after Whelan got there. His cover was that of a maintenance man hired by Kirkland. Almeida’s passport identified him as an American, as Levell feared he couldn’t pull off an assumed accent or convince anyone he was from anywhere other than the U.S. All of the men except Almeida had worked on their accents and brushed up on the relevant facts concerning their “home” countries.

At nine o’clock the following morning, the six men rendezvoused at a vacant, but furnished, apartment that was part of Kirkland’s management portfolio. Each was staying in a different location, and, except for Kirkland and Almeida, took care not to arrive at the same time.

The apartment was in the Discovery Gardens section of town, not far from the Dubai Marina. As rentals went, the unit definitely was lower end. Whelan looked around the living room. The furniture was dirty and ragged, well past its prime. There were traces of mold in the corners of the ceiling, and the walls cried out for fresh paint. He walked over to a window and carefully drew the cheap curtain aside. The blank wall of another building faced him only a few feet away, blocking any possibility of a view. Whelan and the others were shocked to hear that the unit commanded an annual rent of 125,000 Dirhams, or $34,000, a rate of almost $3,000 per month.

“So this is what Dubai has become,” Thomas said. “It’s changed a lot from the Gulf War days when we all were here last. Can’t say I’m impressed.

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