Mason Collins Box Set - Books 1-3 by John A. Connell

Author:John A. Connell [Connell, John A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-23T22:00:00+00:00

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Like pilot fish around a shark, four German lawyers followed Mason’s every step. Whittman, a particularly tenacious lawyer, tried to cut Mason off. “Investigator Collins, you cannot hold my client—our clients—without specific charges.”

The other three lawyers nodded in agreement. Mason ignored their protests and moved around Whittman to intercept a team of MPs that had picked up another German gangster.

One of the MPs said, “Hermann Auerbach, racketeering, suspected kidnapping, grand larceny.”

“Put him in the room and get a statement,” Mason said.

The MPs led Auerbach away, and Mason continued down the hallway in the main administrative building at the Sheridan barracks. The lawyers tried to keep pace, their scuffling footsteps and collective murmuring echoing off the hard surfaces of the corridor.

“Hermann Auerbach is also my client,” Whittman said. “You can’t do this.”

“Military authority supersedes civil law in this case. He is to be detained for questioning, like all the others. If and when I am satisfied with his cooperation, he will be released into the hands of the German police. What they do with him and his pals after that is up to them.”

Mason strode into a conference room that had been converted into a holding area, where MPs asked the arrestees preliminary questions before processing them and putting them into holding cells. He had recruited a dozen MPs to pick up the persons of dubious character on Yaakov’s list, and another five to perform the preliminary interviews. Some of the arrestees yelled and stomped their feet in protest. In one corner Abrams had Willy Laufs, the person Laura had named in connection with Kantos. He looked surprisingly confident despite his recent ordeal and arrest. Mason would let Abrams handle Laufs for now. Abrams’s softer approach could sometimes get results, plus he didn’t want to get close to Laufs until he was sure he could keep his temper in check.

Willy Laufs’s residential address hadn’t appeared in any telephone directory, an official register, or even a police rap sheet, for that matter, but anyone in the know in the world of sleaze could point out Laufs’s notorious compound, and generally without a moment’s hesitation. It therefore required little effort on Mason and Abrams’s part to discover its whereabouts. It was, in fact, not far from Winstone’s villa, in the same neighborhood of walled estates on vast parcels of land. Of those who knew of its existence none would ever admit to entering the compound, let alone partaking of Laufs’s repugnant offerings.

Willy had become a specialist in procuring teenaged and younger prostitutes of both sexes for wealthy clients who shared his appetites. He would pose as a priest and troll the ruins of German towns for desperate and starving orphans, recruiting them with a promise of food, shelter, and God’s grace. These were the rumors, of course, as no one would admit to firsthand knowledge. Willy’s brothels had been raided several times in the last nine months, and at various locations, but each time he’d been tipped off, and the raids uncovered nothing.

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