Targets of Revenge by Stephens Jeffrey S

Author:Stephens, Jeffrey S. [Stephens, Jeffrey S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, thriller, Fiction, Espionage, General
ISBN: 9781451688740
Google: 42OmAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 1451688741
Goodreads: 18144061
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2014-01-28T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR

CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA

THE NEXT AFTERNOON, back in Washington, Sandor was seated in one of the small but secure conference rooms in the headquarters of Central Intelligence. Also in attendance were Deputy Director Byrnes, Craig Raabe, and Jim Bergenn. On the large video screen, Dan LaBelle joined them from his office in Texas.

“Any backlash from your counterpart in Moscow?” Byrnes had just asked the man from DEA.

“None at all,” LaBelle reported. “Greshnev has been cooperative. His team identified the dead man as an enforcer for a local mob. Criminal record of assaults and narcotics.”

“That’s who they sent? I’m insulted.”

The other men in the room turned to Sandor. It was evident Byrnes was not amused.

“In the past three days you’ve left dead bodies in hotel rooms in Egypt and Russia,” the DD reminded him. “If you see something funny about that Sandor, I need you to let me in on the joke.”

“You know who’s responsible for the death of Lilli Mindlovitch, sir. And that punk in Moscow was trying to kill me, just in case that part of the story got lost in translation.”

“That doesn’t make it a source of amusement, does it?”

“No sir.”

“I’ve spent too much time over the past three days cleaning up the mess you left in Sharm el-Sheikh, including removal of your name from the Interpol list. You can thank me for that later. Right now we’ve got the embassy in Moscow working with a cleanup squad from the FSKN doing a Harvey Keitel imitation.”

“There’s been purpose to my actions, sir, and the fact that they’ve twice tried to take me out should be a fair indication that I’m onto something.”

Byrnes turned back to the screen. “What about the intel that Sandor has developed? The prospect of a large narcotics shipment that’s being used to conceal anthrax? Make any sense to you?”

LaBelle nodded at the camera. “I’ve seen too much to rule out anything, Director Byrnes. It’s a bit far-fetched on some levels, and yet it might also make some sense.”

“Explain please.”

“If you’re going to the trouble of importing a large cargo of cocaine—and believe me, they go to incredible lengths to get these shipments past us—it could be used to piggyback some other illegal substance.”

“Go on.”

“It would pose several potential issues for us,” LaBelle continued. “The obvious threat is having a large quantity of anthrax in the hands of terrorists within our borders, which means we should do everything possible to follow Sandor’s lead to intercept the goods. But what if the shipment itself is booby-trapped, rigged so that if it’s seized and opened the toxins will somehow be released or exploded? Or what if the poisons have already been mixed with the cocaine, creating a lethal compound for anyone who comes in contact with the narcotics?”

“That last possibility would mean that Adina is double-crossing the drug runners themselves. That makes absolutely no sense to me.”

“Yes, the least likely scenario, I admit. But as I say . . .”

“You’ve seen too much to rule out anything,” Byrnes completed the thought.

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