Hagberg, David by Assassin

Author:Assassin [txt] [Assassin [txt]]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-08-05T18:33:35+00:00

cooperation of the CIA, the FBI and the SDECE.”

Chernov decided that he could be surprised after all. “The assassin is a westerner?”

“He’s an American living in France,” Kabatov said.

“In fact he’s a former CIA officer,” Yuryn added a little too quickly. Kabatov and the others shot him a dirty look.

“Before we get into all of that, will you take the job, Comrade Bykov?” the president asked. “Will you find and stop the assassin?”

“Da,” Chernov said, masking his momentary confusion. Yuryn had tried to warn him about something and now he was trying to send a signal. “Who is this American, Mr. President?”

Kabatov handed him Yuryn’s report. “His name is Kirk McGarvey, a name you may be familiar with from your days in the KGB. He’s done the Rodina a great deal of harm during his career.”

It was as if a ton of bricks had fallen on Chernov’s head, and it took everything within his power not to overreact, to hide his true feelings of absolute hatred. He opened the folder and began to read about Viktor Yemlin’s part in the plot, his trips to Tbilisi, then Paris and finally Helsinki where he met with the American. Through the reading Chernov tried to concentrate on the content of the report in an effort to block out his other thoughts, those of loathing and bitterness and even fear. His brother had been one of the best operatives that the KGB’s Executive Action Department had ever fielded. Under Baranov’s direction the department had run circles around the secret intelligence services of every country in the west. Murder, kidnappings, sabotage, his brother had been the best, until McGarvey killed him in an operation gone bad in Portugal.

Coming up in his brother’s footsteps, Chernov had often dreamed of revenge. But his brother had once told him that revenge was only for fools. The best operative was the man who could commit murder dispassionately,

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