Order of Succession_Getting Away with Murder by Bill Thompson

Author:Bill Thompson [Thompson, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ascendente Books
Published: 2016-06-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

Amin Hassan now had a comprehensive dossier on the man who had planted the bugs. Everyone knew Brian Sadler – the famous gallery owner was hard to miss if one was interested in antiquities and relics. Amy had made a deal with him to display her artifacts from Pompeii and Herculaneum. At first her father could have cared less about that – those were hers to do with as she wished.

The nagging question was why he had installed listening devices. Was this the way Sadler did business, cheating and eavesdropping on his clients? That made no sense at all. There was something else to this. Maybe Sadler hadn't been interested in Amy's pieces at all. Maybe the entire purpose of his appointment was to get her out of the room long enough to plant devices in an office he presumed was hers.

He thought it was likely that someone – perhaps an American intelligence agency – enlisted Sadler to gain access to Amy's office under the pretext of borrowing her relics for an upcoming auction. That was what he wanted to know more about.

A few days later Amin Hassan learned a startling fact about Brian Sadler. His college roommate and lifelong best friend was Harry Harrison, the former President of the United States.

His best friend is the man killed by the Falcons of Islam, and now he turns up in my London office, planting devices.

Suddenly Amin understood. This was no coincidence. Sadler's visit, his sudden interest in Amy's artifacts, the listening devices – the American government had orchestrated everything. More disturbing was the fact that his daughter was becoming personal friends with Sadler and his fiancée-slash-attorney. The urgency of this situation suddenly escalated a hundredfold. There was no time to waste.

Once again he called the man who'd solved his problems for years. Zarif had been a loyal and trusted servant, and he asked no questions about his boss's instructions. He'd executed orders over and over again, never leaving a clue that Hassan Group was behind the often-violent acts.

"It has to be an accident and it has to be soon."

"Of course, Mr. Hassan. Leave everything to me."

Amin called his daughter next. "I'm putting Zarif on a project, my dear. He'll be out of the office for a few days, maybe a week. Is there anything he's working on for you that we need to move to someone else?"

Her father hardly needed Amina's input; he knew exactly what Zarif was doing every minute of every day. Amina didn't particularly approve of her father's methods, but she had to give him credit. Things always turned out well for Hassan Group when Zarif went on one of his "projects." The problem always went away. Zarif was dangerous. She knew that, but she also was certain he would never hurt her. Her father would kill Zarif if he did. Regardless, it paid to be careful.

Putting Zarif on a project meant something was wrong that Amin wanted him to fix. From Amy's standpoint, the one thing that had consumed her time the past two weeks was her involvement with Brian and Nicole.

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