Ludlum, Robert - Bourne 03 by Ludlum Robert

Author:Ludlum, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Robert Ludlum Ž THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

“I’ll be killed if I tell you.”

“I’ll kill you right now if you don’t,” said the Jackal’s conduit, removing Jason’s hunting knife from his wide leather belt, the blade glistening in the light of the floor lamp.

“Why not give me the information my client wants along with a name and a number—any name, any number—and I’ll guarantee you two million francs. All my client asks is for me to be the only intermediary. Where’s the harm? The blackbird can turn me down and tell me to go to hell. ...

Three million!”

Santos’s eyes wavered as if the temptation were almost too much for his imagination. “Perhaps we’ll do business later—”

“Now.”

“No!” Carlos’s man pushed his immense body out of the chair and walked toward the couch, the knife held threateningly in front of him. “Your client.”

“Plural,” replied Bourne. “A group of powerful men in the United States.”

“Who?”

“They guard their names like nuclear secrets, but I know of one and he should be enough for you.”

“Who?”

“Find out for yourself—at least learn the enormity of what I’m trying to tell you. Protect your blackbird by all means! Ascertain that I’m telling you the truth and in the process make yourself so rich you can do anything you want to do for the rest of your life. You could travel, disappear, perhaps have time for those books of yours rather than being concerned with all that garbage downstairs. As you pointed out, neither of us is young. I make a generous brokering fee and you’re a wealthy man, free of care, of unpleasant drudgery. ... Again, where’s the harm? I can be turned down, my clients turned down. There’s no trap. My clients don’t ever want to see him. They want to hire him.”

“How could this be done? How could I be satisfied?”

“Invent some high position for yourself and reach the American ambassador in London—the name is Atkinson. Tell him you’ve received confidential instructions from Snake Lady. Ask him if you should carry them out.”

“Snake Lady? What’s that?”

“Medusa. They call themselves Medusa.”

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