Retribution by Hagberg David

Author:Hagberg, David [Hagberg, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Suspense
ISBN: 9781429922593
Goodreads: 22561258
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: 2015-01-06T08:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-FIVE

Pam Schlueter sat by the window in her one-room apartment in the immigrant neighborhood of Kreuzberg drinking schnapps and worrying about her next move. She wanted the money for taking McGarvey down, but more importantly she didn’t want him or some ISI goon to come up behind her one night and put a bullet in her brain.

Once you started these kinds of operations, you could never back out, not until they were finished. Only this time she’d managed to grab a tiger by the tail, and she still wasn’t quite sure exactly how she was going to eliminate him.

Certainly not by any frontal assault, with her four remaining operatives coming at him in force, all at once, guns blazing. From what she’d managed to learn about the man, he’d survived plenty of fights where the odds were overwhelmingly stacked against him.

Nor did she think she could trust any of them to do the job one-on-one. Steffen was one of the best, and he’d had a lot of respect from the others, but he was gone, evidently taken out by McGarvey—the fifty-year-old they all thought would be easy.

Yet as she turned that notion over she decided that one-on-one would be the only way of getting to him. With a woman’s touch.

Someone knocked softly at her door. She snatched her Glock 26 from the table and went barefoot across the room. She was dressed only in jeans and a plain white T-shirt, no bra.

“Wer ist es?” Who is it, she said, just above a whisper.

Someone downstairs was playing American country-and-western music, and the couple on the right were having their usual nightly row, but other than that the building was quiet.

“Felix,” a man said.

Felix Volker, one of her shooters—the crazy one. She recognized his voice.

She opened the door and let him in, locking it behind him. He had been drinking, his face a little flushed.

“Did you know that someone has been sitting in a VW across the street since twenty-one hundred hours?”

She turned and started for the front window.

“He just left,” Volker said. “But I think it was that BND officer who’s been sniffing around for the past few months.”

“The bastard who killed Dieter in Florida?”

“Maybe.”

Steffen’s name came into her head. It was possible that he wasn’t dead. It was possible that the CIA had made him talk. But if that had been the case, and the CIA had passed the information to the BND, the agency wouldn’t have simply sent one man down here merely to watch her. More likely he’d come to check out one of the Turkish or Greek immigrant families who lived in the neighborhood. They’d been causing a lot of problems over the past year and a half; that, along with the Muslim issue, was driving the government crazy.

“Did he spot you?” Pam asked.

“I don’t think so. But I think you better get the hell out of here tonight before he comes back. You can stay with me.”

Pam laughed. “You talk as fucking nuts as you look,” she said.

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