Paul Dark 04 Spy Out the Land by Jeremy Duns

Author:Jeremy Duns [Duns, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9780857209726
Google: Mm4pBgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-01-13T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 37

John Weale accepted the mug of coffee from Morelius’s secretary and settled into his chair. ‘Do you have any leads on where he went after escaping from custody in Finland?’

Morelius gestured at one of his men, older than the others and with a leathery complexion and shrewd eyes.

‘Yes, we think he’s either on his way back here or already in the city. It could be he has an emergency cache of papers here, but even if not we believe this is where he will look for the clues as to who took his family.’

Weale took a sip of coffee. ‘And do you have any ideas who that might be?’

‘Well, he told the Finns the kidnappers were black, but as I’m sure you can appreciate that isn’t especially helpful. He may have been lying, or just mistaken. And we can hardly stop every black man leaving the country, especially as they might already have done so.’

Weale nodded. This was very good news – by his calculations Voers and the rest of the team should be boarding their plane right about now, and as the Swedes didn’t know who they were looking for there was a very good chance they would make it out.

‘So how do you plan to find him?’

‘Well, we’ve put alerts out to the police and military with complete descriptions and photographs, and all ports and airports now have armed troops on the lookout for him in line with your Chief’s recommendations to Interpol. We’ve also informed television, radio and the press, both here and across the Nordic region. They are running bulletins every hour – a dangerous killer on the loose and so on. He should be in all the evening papers, we hope front-page. In the meantime, we’re putting together a map of all known friends and associates of the girlfriend, Claire Nsoka. She worked as a picture researcher for one of the papers, so we’re interviewing people there, as well as talking to her son’s kindergarten and of course interviewing neighbours.’

Weale was heartened. These were precisely the measures he would have implemented, and he wouldn’t have fancied his own chances against such a manhunt. ‘What about the flat? Were there any clues there?’

Morelius turned to a colleague and rattled off instructions to him in rapid Swedish. The other man left the office and came back a minute later clutching a dusty-looking holdall in one hand and a rifle in the other.

Weale stood and looked both of them over carefully. The holdall was empty, but presumably had been where Dark/Johansson had stored his emergency supplies. He picked up the rifle and stared down it, then weighed it in his hand.

‘Not a bad weapon. I can imagine he could have done some damage with this.’ He turned to the Swedes. ‘Any idea where he might have got it from?’

‘We’re investigating that, too,’ said Morelius. ‘It could be that he simply bought it over the counter somewhere, as it’s easy to do with cash if you have the right papers.

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