Gatecrasher by Young Robert

Author:Young, Robert [Young, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-22T18:30:00+00:00

36

Thursday. 2pm.

Michael Horner was a very self-assured man who took particular interest in his appearance and was always impeccably dressed.

Walking stiffly at his side, the equally immaculate figure of Geoffrey Asquith was eyeing the camera-laden tourists bunching around Cleopatra’s Needle with a mixture of contempt and caution. He dipped his head a little into the upturned collar of his coat as the two men strode past them.

‘How far does it go Michael? How much did you hide from me?’

Horner took a deep breath before speaking. ‘Everything Griffin told you is true. I was routing shipments of arms into Liberia, through Tunisia and Guinea and did so on seven separate occasions. The illusion of legitimacy was maintained for the company through the fact that there were various waypoints for the merchandise. As far as you were concerned they were delivered on time and accounted for by the clients in North Africa. What you did not know was that the merchandise did not stop there. It was moved on again through another African state and repackaged before arriving in Liberia.’

‘And then?’

‘And then I presume into Sierra Leone. Perhaps it stayed in Liberia. I wasn’t on the ground.’

Asquith shook his head but it was obvious that he was wrestling with a boiling temper.

‘How could you have even contemplated such a thing?’

‘I don’t need to answer that. You were never especially sharp on the operational side of things and that made it easy enough for me to do what I did. You were rarely watching.’

‘And where did the money go?’

‘The goods were largely paid for already, separately. We acted as the carrier. The company was paid on arrival at the first stop. A sub-contractor took it on from there. After that the final legs of the journey were funded privately. Myself and others involved in the physical movement of the goods were remunerated separately. Entirely off the books.’

They stopped at the wall and looked out across the river, County Hall sprawled out across the bank down to their right and a cold wind whipped up off the water and stung their eyes as they gazed up at the majestic sight of the London Eye.

‘This could destroy us both Michael. What worries me is why we haven’t heard anything yet. I mean what are they waiting for? What do they want?’

‘I imagine we’ll find out soon enough. Whoever is in possession of this data assuredly has some agenda or other and clearly it relates to the two of us.’

Asquith nodded. ‘More to the point, who is behind this?’

‘We are both wealthy and successful men. You don’t get that way without making a few enemies, making a few people jealous. It could be anybody.’

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